Grieving by Barren Path

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.

Tracklist

1.	Whimpering Echo	1:13

2.	Subversion Record	0:41

3.	Primordial Black	0:58

4.	No Geneva	1:14

5.	Isolation Wound	1:00

6.	The Insufferable Weight	1:43

7.	Relinquish	1:26

8.	The Unreliable Narrator	0:44

9.	Celestial Bleeding	0:43

10.	Lunar Tear	1:13

11.	Horizonless	1:28

12.	In the End… The Gift is Death	1:15

Credits

released October 31, 2025

Line-up:

Takafumi Matsubara : Guitar
Bryan Fajardo : Drums
Mitchell Luna: Vocals
Rory Kobzina : Guitar
Mauro Cordoba: Bass

Vocals recorded by Phil Vera (DESPISE YOU, CROM) at Veracuda studios, Los Angeles, CA.

Drums and guitar tracked by Irving Lopez (COGNIZANT, TRUCIDO) at Anomalous Mind Recordings, Dallas, TX.

Mixed by Irving Lopez at Anomalous Mind Recordings, Dallas, TX.

Mastered by Leon Del Muerte (IMPALED, EXHUMED, MURDER CONSTRUCT) at Beastman Audio, Portland, OR.

Cover art by Hide Takakura a.k.a The art demon
Layout art by Alex Eckman-Lawn

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