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The Path Narrows

by BARING TEETH

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progdolphin The free-form nature of The Path Narrows presents with hooks that tease rather than tackle, a subtle journey of technique-careful, avant-leaning death metal in a field where many others seem to play the most dissonant version of their favorite milestone album. As a band who seems to sit always just a little more wild, a little more noisy, a little more abstract than their peers, Baring Teeth continues to prove a band who does little wrong. Favorite track: Rote Mimesis.
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Darknight Baring Teeth scale another level and exact their use of music cleverly constructed to give us all ear worms, I mean 'Liminal Rite' the dissonant metal headbanger and instrumental so intricate you'll feel like your lost. The Path Narrows is one hell of a record, justifying that this band are really good at what they do. Favorite track: Liminal Rite.
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Dave Aftandilian I love off-kilter, prog/jazz infused death metal like this, and these guys are based just across the DFW metroplex from me, so how can I not support?
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1.
The Gate 01:05
The path gets straighter and narrower all the time. The years press in. The path becomes a knife edge and I creep along, holding on to even that, The years closing in on either side and overhead.
2.
Obsolescence 03:31
Dread malignant specter Ruler of a kingdom under rock and root Pulsing with the electricity of earth's tendrilled hand A vast labyrinth, milled and barren Echoing with the piercing cries of an astral body bent and broken Reverence towards none
3.
Culled 04:06
A distant light draws near Radiates from the zealot Flickering heat rains on ensnared prey Shadows form the noose in a test of will Chaos bludgeoned into conformity And atrophy cured by disavowal Judged by revenant commandment Silence reigns The drove fed with a gutter sermon Spinning vortex of shit Enciphering will as truth The blood apex Indignity Descending under and through
4.
Rote Mimesis 04:11
The stream of lifeblood choked to a drip Exacting a just retribution And digging down to belief An audience to the final call Feral and seething, with eyes sewn wide Drawing down the sky Chaos is my epitaph, etched into stone Cast eternal by a fire immemorial Lying prostrate to an icon Sired in the dirt and bled dry Floating untethered and unmoored Scenes of a nightmarish vision drawn in red
5.
Liminal Rite 05:40
The billowing smoke of a life extinguished
6.
Wreath 04:25
Laughter in a ceremony of grief Praising fealty to a diseased idol My hands cast to stone On a futile climb up the tower Eternally scaling but never eclipsing Moonlight casts weary shadows On masses bled dry in a savage ritual Hysteria avowed Worship targeting a wavering beacon, a wandering eye
7.
A force under tension Carbonized and gnashed with teeth My body, a prison of density Composed of a masterfully invocated, Cacophonous symphony of error Predatory eyes menace through an ashen veil Ghostly and fleeting Synchronicity as blasphemy Multiaxial heretic Ancient bones ground to dust Molting my skin, a layer of weakness guised as strength That once shielded knotted roots from a blazing sun Now decaying into earth
8.
Terminus 11:01
My existence chained to this rotting vessel Pallid eyes call to me A captive bound by time With flesh seared by an itinerant destiny Vibrancy wrest from our grasp Borne by tide and littered with arrows Commit my body to flame

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Specialized in crafting atonal discordance and ethereal dissonance, the Dallas, Texas based trio of BARING TEETH returns with its forth full-length, "The Path Narrows". Acting as their debut on I, Voidhanger Records, the album perfectly sums up how BARING TEETH has spent the recent years of plague in meticulously refining what is undoubtedly their most artistically lush and vibrant work to date.

Having worked on the material of "The Path Narrows" throughout the past four years and the pandemic by means of constant transformations and revisions, the band emerges with a newfound sense of solidity and form. Every single nuance in BARING TEETH's output has undergone a pressurization that has forced everything to expand and widen, and as the end result, the band's internal extremes are stretched further apart from each other than ever before. The instrumental prowess has gained a new level that in turn has pushed the fast material to be faster and slow to be slower, but also has gone on to introduce new layers of musicianship into the mix by means of synths and featuring voices, without forgetting the immaculate wall of sound that now appears as a vertical pitch-black ocean clouding the entirety of the listeners' observable horizons.

Through rapid bursts to colossal hovering, ”The Path Narrows” is an exquisite addition to BARING TEETH's output, both promising as well as delivering greater things than anyone could have expected or hoped for. Having taken their time to ensure every little detail is up to their improved standard and even beyond any self-set margins, BARING TEETH are about to not only breach but utterly annihilate the floodgates of gripping and incongruous music once again.

credits

released October 20, 2023

Scott Addison - bass, vocals
Andrew Hawkins - guitar, vocals
Jason Roe - drums

Music and lyrics by Baring Teeth except:
Additional vocals and narration by Zach Christian
Additional synth on "Terminus" by Sean Kirkpatrick
Lyrics on "The Gate" excerpted by Shirley Jackson's "The Sundial"

Produced by Baring Teeth and Colin Marston
Engineered and mixed at the Thousand Caves by Colin Marston
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters
Art by Derek Setzer
Layout by Zach Jobin
Sigil by Jamie Christ
Photo by Will Mecca
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Cat. Nr. IVR215

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