Genre(s): Progressive Metal, Djent
Recommended Tracks: Garden in the Bones, It's Only Smiles, Satellites
Label: 3DOT Recordings, Century Media, eOne
Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
Review: For the life of me I cannot understand the lack of love and respect gets from the prog and metal establishment. Reasons given on the Prog Archives range from the supposedly "emo" vocals to Periphery's "dumb" fans (yes, one reviewer on another album accused Periphery fans of not being the most intelligent bunch). The inbreds over at the Metal Archives refuse to add Periphery on account of their not really being metal.
I can only hope that open-minded listeners can leave these preconceived notions aside and give this record and honest spin. Ear destroying riffs, passionate melodies, and excellent electronic interludes and passages are, through truly progressive ambition, weaved together to produces Periphery’s best record since ‘Periphery II.’ Perhaps most encouraging of all is how Periphery have managed to reign in their excesses. The songs feel tighter with less sprawl. The run time still characteristically spills over the 60-minute mark, but thanks to very varied song writing, you would hardly know it while listening.
My personal rating for this record is 4.5 out of 5. I found ‘Follow Your Ghost’ to be unnecessary and ‘Crush’ squandered some of its potential. But these are minor flow on an otherwise superb record.
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