grindcore maniacs Barren Path are streaming two new unrelenting, frenzied songs

This band Barren Path is implementing a scorched-earth policy of grindcore songwriting, with 12 songs with something like an average length of one minute, give or take. In other words, this is the sound of perfection. Press play, and the barrage races out of the gate and continues in the same fashion for the duration, keeping the music at fast as humanly possible, with screaming and growling all over the place, from the left and the right, from behind and from front, up and down the line, and blasting like a horde of lunatics. The only problem is that this recording is too short. Besides that critique, there is nothing that I find to complain about, just fun, blast and fast. Wonderful.

Barren Path

Grieving

Willowtip Records

31 October 2025

ABOUT THIS GRINDCORE: After completing the final objective and rising from the ashes of the recently self-immolated GRIDLINK, Takafumi Matsubara and Bryan Fajardo now set mission coordinates towards BARREN PATH. Recruiting Maruta/Shock Withdrawal vocalist Mitchell Luna and re-enlisting grindcore commandos Mauro Cordoba and Rory Kobzina from the Coronet Juniper sessions, this operation requires relinquishing high tech weaponry. Only use of rudimentary blades, precision blast strikes, and amplified guttural attacks is allowed. BARREN PATH elevate the flailing savagery of their genre through mincing, precise volleys of melodic and dissonant passages that rip and tear like a swarm of shurikens. By turns cruelly effective and strangely vulnerable, Grieving is a statement release by a new standard-bearer in grindcore. This is music for a vicious, unforgiving world.

Grieving by Barren Path