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. 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 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.