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BARREN PATH (Gridlink, Maruta), the new force in grindcore, will embark on the West Coast MMXXVI tour at the end of April for a seven-date jaunt. Willowtip label-mates, GIGAN, will appear on four of those dates. The tour wraps up in Seattle at Northwest Terror Fest.

Tour dates are as follows:

April 30 – San Diego, CA – The Banshee*
May 1 – Long Beach, CA – Que Sera*
May 2 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
May 3 – Atascadero, CA – Dark Nectar
May 4 – Sacramento, CA – Cafe Colonial*
May 5 – Oakland, CA – Thee Stork Club*
May 9 – Seattle, WA – Nuemos (Northwest Terror Fest)

*Dates with GIGAN

Willowtip Records released BARREN PATH debut album, Grieving, last year on Halloween. The album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Stream/Purchase below:

youtu.be/w80jc0H2dQo

willowtip.com/bands/details/barren-path.aspx

barrenpath.bandcamp.com/album/grieving

music.apple.com/us/album/grieving/1829019761

open.spotify.com/artist/7AWIZP1bhOIz8UCMkv28Uf

Track Listing:

1. Whimpering Echo

2. Subversion record

3. Primordial Black

4. No Geneva

5. Isolation Wound

6. The Insufferable Weight[Video]

7. Relinquish

8. The Unreliable Narrator

9. Celestial Bleeding

10. Lunar Tear

11. Horizonless [Video]

12. In the End… The Gift is Death [Video]

BARREN PATH:

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

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More Barren Path:

instagram.com/barren_path

facebook.com/people/Barren-Path/61579110541664

Willowtip links:

willowtip.com

facebook.com/willowtip

willowtip.bandcamp.com

Source: ClawHammer PR

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