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Biography : The Path



Formed by Travis MacGregor and Jerome Whittington with a desire to play extreme fast and heavy music. Influenced by the bands they grew up with like Kreator, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Sodom, Dark Angel, Death, DRI, COC, VoiVod & The Accused along with bands coming out at the same time like Napalm Death, Larm, Disrupt, Fear of God, Repulsion, Autopsy, Sore Throat, and Septic Death. They added Jerome's brother Jason on guitar and Marry Fisher on drums and The Path was born. The music started as mix of Splatter, Fastcore, Crossover, and Thrash, and then morphed into early death and primitive GRINDCORE. With lyrics mixing Thelema, Chaos, and other Occult topics with political and social ideas the concept was complete. Several shows were played and then for unknown reasons the band called it quits.
In 1998 Jerome and Travis reformed the band with a new line up (Jay, Will, & Kevin). Still driven to play grind/death metal but adding a SLUDGE/DOOM element. Influences like Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, Cirith Ungol, and Candlemass started creeping in making the music even more original. The Path recorded their first cd in 1998 (Crimes Of Thought And Passion). As soon as the cd was recorded and a few shows were played the line up split. Once again leaving the two founding members Travis and Jerome to start from scratch. This led to Travis taking over both guitar and bass duties, and the band adding Larry Lewis on drums. The band stayed as a three piece long enough to play a few shows, record a track (Drunken Rage) for Menace To Sobriety's I Drank To Be A Asshole comp, and record their half of a split cd (As Beasts In The Field). After the recording before the cd was even mixed Larry Lewis quit the band. This led to the band Taking a long break. In 2004 the band reformed with Bruce Kilmer on drums, Josh Sutton on guitar, Travis on guitar and bass, and Jerome on Vocals, to record Give It Back for the Disrupt tribute compilation. Soon Josh quit, Bruce went to school, and was replaced by Scott Jerger in early 2005. In 2006 four new tracks were recorded as a three piece once again. Two of these tracks American and Frozen, along with 2 older track were used for The Path, Castigation (Indonesia) split CD released by MIAW. The split was plagued by problems and bad luck. The cd manufacture that was pressing the disc went out of buisness and it took almost a year to get the money back. Then the new manufactures would not print the disc because of samples in The Path tracks, and new track had to pulled from outtakes to replace them. After all this, problems started with the cover, one after another. It seemed the cd would never see the light of day. Then after almost 2 years in Feb. of 2008 the cd was released.
Scott Wildridge joined the band on guitar in mid 2006 and as a four piece the band was able to play live again for the first time since 2003. A live rehearsal tape was recorded soon after with both old and new songs to be given away for free with Embrace The Void zine 2 (CZ). Three studio tracks, Two new tracks (Stacking Pigs to the Sky & Other) and a rerecording of Sliver were also recorded for a split 45 with Brazilian crust, D-beat band Diskontroll to be released March 2008. The Path recorded Running Through The Blood for a Fear Of God tribute cd. They also recorded Terrorizer's Dead Shall Rise & Death's Pull The Plug in the same session. The band is writing new songs for a new full lenght (Forgotten By The Gods) and playing shows in the mid west area.

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