Serpentine Path's pedigree boasts all three members of New York's cult doom band Unearthly Trance plus founding Electric Wizard and Ramesses bassist/guitarist, Tim Bagshaw. Sounding like way more than just a sum of its parts, Serpentine Path's debut is an absolutely crushing album which both references and reinterprets its members' previous bands but with a decidedly more punishing death-metal approach. Vicious vocals combine with down-tuned guitars that rip out punishingly killer riffs to create an overall evil vibe that's equal parts Paranoid and Severed Survival - Serpentine Path is way more than just a super group of underground icons, they are one of the best new death/doom outfits to emerge in many years.