![]() Tim demo’s songs at his place with a drum machine and then presents his ideas to us. To me, you can hear threads of Ramesses and even Electric Wizard in some of the riffs that Tim plays in SP. Tim Bagshaw is very much the mastermind behind Serpentine Path. does everyone contribute the green shoots of a song? Are the lyrics all Ryan’s doing? Sorry this one’s kind of generic, but I am interested…. ![]() Is there a primary songwriter, do the songs originate with one band member, or is it a very democratic process, i.e. We still wrote the same way and basically the band become elevated and even more sonically heavy. It was a perfect match and he fit in seamlessly. He has lots of experience and is very much an expert at his craft which is the same kind of sound that we’re already doing with Serpentine Path before he joined. Having two guitars in the rehearsal spot and on the recordings makes things sound that much more gargantuan. He really just enhanced what we already had going on. Stephen joining didn’t change things dramatically. He expressed interest and eventually the idea came up for him to play second guitar. Jay became friendly with Stephen and eventually heard the first Serpentine Path album. ![]() Fast forward to when Winter was playing a few shows in the New York area and that is when Jay Newman crossed paths with Stephen as Jay works at SIR and helped out with some amps and stuff for the shows they played. I think that was the first point where we probably were on Stephen’s radar. I knew my buddy Ron Grimaldi was friends with the Winter guys and he hooked it up. When the record was released I thought it would be cool to send a few copies to the guys in Winter. You must be pretty delighted to have Stephen Flam involved! How did that come about and has it changed the writing process at all? How do you think it changed the dynamic of the band?Ī few years ago Unearthly Trance did a split 7” with Volition which consisted of each band doing Winter covers. Vicious vocals combine with downtuned 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.A hearty greeting to all of you, and congratulations on producing one of the albums of the year! 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. With a pedigree that boasts all three members of New York’s cult doom band Unearthly Trance PLUS founding Electric Wizard and Ramesses bassist/guitarist Tim Bagshaw, Serpentine Path’s debut self-titled album should immediately top any doom-metal fan’s want-list. Pre-order debut album NOW here -> 'Emanations' is OUT NOW via Relapse Records | Order here: | iTunes: ![]() Vicious vocals combine with downtuned 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. ![]()
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