A Familiar Path was also featured on the gagliarchives radio show and recently placed on the weekly top 20 list. Thanks to all of the radio stations and magazines, websites around the globe that have supported A Familiar Path and included it on their playlists or reviewed the disc.
In other news, I just finished recording acoustic guitar parts on a track called Irreversible Damage for Slovenian guitarist Grega Habic. Check out the track and Grega's very fine work at his myspace page!
Review links:
Sea of Tranquility (English)
Ytsejam.com (English)
Ragazzi-music.de (German)
Rocktimes.de (German)
babyblaue-seiten.de (German)
musikreviews.de (German)
hooked on music.de (German)
Arlequins.it (Italian)
merlinprog.com (Norwegian)
Musicwaves.fr (French)
music in belgium.net (French)
Progressia.net (French)
A Familiar Path is the third chapter of At War With Self, which is a return to Snelwar’s roots as a musician that maintains the concept of the project changing for each release. The original concept in which Snelwar combined classical guitars into progressive and thrash metal has been re-visited and fully realized with A Familiar Path. The new incarnation of At War With Self features Manfred Dikkers, who joins Snelwar again from the Acts of God sessions on drums and percussion. The tracks on A Familiar Path are “the heaviest, most aggressive and accurate version of what I’ve had in mind for combining metal and progressive influences with classical guitars” says Snelwar. Instrumental tracks such as a hybrid half-classical, half-metal rendition of a Heitor Villa-Lobos guitar study, the Slayer-meets-King Crimson aggression of Concrete and Poison and Diseased State, a new rendering of Reflections originally featured on the debut Gordian Knot disc and the guitar shred of The Ether Trail, are balanced with the vocally-centered title track and Ourselves. A Familiar Path is accompanied with artwork that completes the emotion and intensity inspired by the 42 minutes on the disc.
A Familiar Path was released November 2009.
The full track Reflections is available for free download, and preview clips available below:
Or, stream the entire disc at lastfm.com
You can order the disc directly from me through Paypal for $10 USD (shipments to US), and $20 USD (outside US). The different rates include postage, and account for my shipping costs from the US. All CDs will be sent first class air mail (typically 3-5 days US and 5-10 days OUS).
I have had some people inquire in the past about getting a signed copy of the disc - if this something you're interested in, just let me know when placing your order, I'd be glad to do so.
Alternate Purchase links:
Through CD Baby ($10 USD):
The disc is also available through the following distributors (please contact me if interested in distributing the disc):
Just for Kicks (Germany)
Synphonic (U.S.)
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