IV: Stigmata
Rocío Echávarri( Deuzzy) / Translation: Zaravasty Luna
Middle East has been the cradle of good quality Heavy Metal bands as Orphaned Land, Dreamtone, Dreamtone & Iris Mavraki’ s Neverland, Myrath, Maegi, and more. This time we bring you from Ciprus, Arrayan Path, which present us their fourth production: IV: Stigmata.
Arrayan Path was born as a personal project of Nicholas Leptos, singer and composer, as well with the guitarist Clemente Fung in 1997. After two demos(“ Return to Troy in 1999 and Osiris in 2000), the band’ s debut album was“ Road to Macedonia, and it was released in 2004. As a result of their strong music and epic backgrounds, the band fast won a lot of fans, the most in Greece. This album has achieved high status becoming a worshipped one.
After a six year parenthesis, at the beginning of 2010 the band released their second album,“ Terra Incognita”, by Pitch Black Records. This album was better in a lot of aspects, specially speaking of music and production. One of the achievements and the significant acknowledgement of“ Terra Incognita” was that the album was nominated for the European Independent Album of the Year Award by IMPALA( Independent Music Companies Association)*, it was the only nomination for metal bands over 20 other nominees. In other hand, the legendary Bruce Dickinson commented“ this is a band worthy to listen”.
* http:// www. impalamusic. org / node / 1