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Terra Relicta web magazine has teamed up with Canadian gothic/dark metal band Malacoda for an exclusive premiere of the new video "Beaten Path". The track is taken from the just recently released new EP, The Year Walk, which was out on the 3rd December via Old Haunt Studios. The Year Walk is the third EP that Malacoda has released in 2021. Four more songs that build upon the band's symphonic sound first explored on 2016's Ritualis Aeterna. "Beaten Path" features guest keyboardist Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian).
Malacoda mastermind Lucas Di Mascio comments: ""Beaten Path" is one of the coolest tracks we've released this year. It's got the high energy kick right at the start of the song and we still get to be pretty dynamic as it carries on. We had an amazing guest keyboard solo from Gabriel Guardiola from Immortal Guardian as well. He really took this song to another level!"
Originally a recording project of multi-instrumentalist and music producer Lucas Di Mascio, Malacoda has persevered and grown throughout the years. Now a trio, the band has now unleashed the conclusion to their trilogy of EP's that was written and recorded before the pandemic.
Long time collaborator Michael Farina returns to play the drums on select tracks, as well as Ryan Claxton (Tulip, Living Dead Girl) and Andrew Suarez (ex-The Slyde). The haunting album cover was made by the extremely talented Stefan Skjoedt.
Featuring Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian) on the track "Beaten Path" as well as a stellar mixing and mastering job by Jeramie Kling (The Absence, Inhuman Condition, Venom Inc.), The Year Walk encompasses everything the band sought to achieve with this direction and closes a long, arduous chapter in Malacoda's history.
Frontman Lucas had this to say about The Year Walk: "The majority of the songs that have been released this year were written around 2017 - before the release of our last full length, Restless Dreams. I didn't really know what to do with these songs because they were so different from Restless Dreams but still were aligned with the sound we had developed on the EP, Ritualis Aeterna. I shelved them for a bit and then decided to rework them when working with an artist who was endorsed by a big guitar brand. The artist in question wanted to have some metal material to help promote themselves, so we built a new band for the material. I was actually supposed to be the rhythm guitarist for this project - we had a different singer involved. Unfortunately, that project never got off the ground after almost a year of working on it and the songs were shelved yet again. In mid-2019 I revisited the songs and wrote a few more after Zak had joined. We were excited about the material and felt it should be a Malacoda release. We finished drum tracking right as 2019 was ending. While our initial plans drastically changed because of the pandemic, I decided that we should still release this material but just break it into EP's so we can keep busy in a time without touring."
Enjoy watching the video and listen to "Beaten Path" below. The track is a must for fans of dark, melodic and symphonic metal. It has a catchy melodic pattern, a nice speeding drive with some great guitar work and a lush melancholic piano. Diverse vocals, clean and blackened harsh, make this track even more dynamic as it already is.
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