{"id":29039,"date":"2025-09-18T05:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29039\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:02:06","slug":"barren-path-gridlink-maruta-streams-devastating-single-horizonless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29039\/","title":{"rendered":"BARREN PATH (GRIDLINK, MARUTA) Streams Devastating Single &#8220;Horizonless&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After completing their final mission with the self-immolated <a href=\"https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/tag\/gridlink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gridlink<\/a>, guitarist Takafumi Matsubara and drummer Bryan Fajardo have re-calibrated their trajectory toward a new objective: Barren Path. Which is basically &#8220;Gridlink but extra death metal&#8221; and I&#8217;m here for it.<\/p>\n<p>Joining forces with Mitchell Luna (Maruta, Shock Withdrawal) on vocals and re-enlisting grindcore operatives Mauro Cordoba and Rory Kobzina from Gridlink&#8217;s Coronet Juniper sessions, the band strip away high-tech weaponry in favor of raw, close-quarters combat. For evidence, look no further than our searing premiere of the band&#8217;s new single &#8220;Horizonless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Barren Path will release Grieving on October 31. <a href=\"https:\/\/barrenpath.bandcamp.com\/album\/grieving\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pre-orders are available here on Bandcamp<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/willowtip.com\/bands\/details\/barren-path.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here via Willowtip&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tWant More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After completing their final mission with the self-immolated Gridlink, guitarist Takafumi Matsubara and drummer Bryan Fajardo have re-calibrated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-29039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}