Is Periphery Worthy of the Hype?! Blood Eagle - Reaction! 

The opening track to this album is a 16 min work of art.

10+ year Periphery fan here. You have so many good recommendations already, I won't add more. You could probably do an entire channel on just Periphery songs. Loved what you had to say, what you bring to music recation videos. I'll be watching more.

Love me a bit of Periphery, mega live band as well. I vote for Reptile next as well, epic track and they opened the show with it last time a I saw them. If you want a bit of guitar nerdness, the guitarist Misha published about 15 albums worth of riffs under the name Bulb, worth searching out.

A few Periphery favorites of mine to check out: Reptile, Satellites, and Garden in the Bones

I’m sure someone else has said this here but they are a 3 guitar band and the bass player, while not really part of the band in terms of touring and stuff, he does track bass tracks for every song. Dude’s name is Nolly Getgood and he’s insane. Oh, and if you wanna hear more of him check out the songs Absolomb, Graveless, or Prayer Position in Periphery’s lineup. He’s super easy to hear in those tracks 😊👍

Would definitely tune in to any other Periphery reactions you do! There's way too many good ones to suggest so ill just look forward to the next one ;)

Hmm, what should I say...this is the band that helped me learn that I love metal, so they'll always be special to me. This is probably their most straight up heavy, brutal, nasty song. I've heard it enough times that I kind of forgot about the changes, though, and that's what you'll get in a lot of Periphery songs. Kind of a mix of everything, technical prog stuff, beautiful melodic stuff, and just sick riffs that make you headbang. I could recommend so many songs, it's hard to say where you should go next. I think you'll get a lot of mentions of songs like Reptile and Satellites, but those are some of their best songs from their newest album and I think you should hold off. I've seen other people jump right into those when they weren't ready and they weren't able to fully appreciate it. You could do any of the other three from your poll. I personally voted for Scarlet, it's a pretty fun one from their second album. The music video might be very distracting though...Icarus Lives is an interesting one because it's from their first album, which I admit I still haven't listened to fully. They didn't really have their sound locked down and the lead singer, Spencer, hadn't totally figured out his style. That said, Icarus Lives is still one of the better songs from that album and it might be cool to see how they sounded early on and then go to something newer. I dunno man, there's really a lot to choose from.

Periphery-Reptile if you want the full Periphery experience, its a 16 minute track and shows off a lot of sides to the band and the cool part is, its that well done you forget it is 16 minutes long by the end.

Good reaction! No bass player as of now, just three guitarists. Pretty sure their old bassist still records the bass for the tracks though but doesn't get involved in the writing process.

hell yes love me some periphery! check out the bad thing. Periphery is very progressive and my favorite band. they have something for everyone

I'm a big Periphery fan, so that might be skewing my opinion, but I've seen dozens of reaction videos and loved this. I learned something about guitar! So cool. Thanks.

Reptile is The song we want you to react next! Or maybe satellites?

Periphery and Spencer Sotelo (vocalist) are incredible musicians and songwriters in this genre. Spencer's range is absolutely phenomenal. You HAVE to check out more of their stuff. It's a bit of a long one, but I would HIGHLY suggest checking out Reptile from the same album, Hail Stan. If you really want to hear the best display of their style and just how nuts Spencer's vocal range can be, that song is an absolute masterpiece.

Reptile!!!

One of my 3 favorite bands and awesome live! All are super musicians. This is one of their "angry" tracks. They do have other sounds as well.

IIRC, their producer/mixer(?) adds in bass for studio recordings, but doesn't perform live with them anymore. He's in the band, but isn't, if that makes sense

Would be sick to see you do Reptile :D

You asked if there was a bassist in Periphery. The answer is, kinda. Nolly Getgood used to be the full time bassist for periphery, but he took a step back for another passion of his. Now he acts as a producer/engineer for the band while recording the bass parts in the studio for them. He also helps with the drums. Really weird dynamic, but it works

For what it's worth, Jake Bowen one of the guitarist, is the nephew of John Petruccii of Dream Theater.

if you want to see how masterful their compositions get, check out their song 'habitual line-stepper'

Any of the stuff off of Periphery I is so good.

In the production mix, there is a bass. They're old buddy, who did a lot of the recording process for their tracks, recorded his bass. I forget dudes name.. big bald guy with Joe dirt chops. He doesn't play with em live. I bet he wants to though. Seems like he's too busy building his path, than to play with em though.

Hey man. Enjoyed the reaction. I seen a video before where Misha (guy who played solo) said he would recommend stranger things as a first song to give a good example of their different styles. Would love a reaction on this. Keep up the good work

Spencer is an amazing vocalist (I think he might even have perfect pitch, but I could be remembering that wrong)

My band writes the flow similar to ur last word... We keep tempo not measures or bars

Normally I skim through reactions but I didn't since your commentary is interesting, great reaction!

This song is so fucking gooooood.

Regarding the guitar solo, I believe Misha, the soloist, said he wasn't reall crazy about the solo but the rest of the band wanted it lol

Awesome reaction man! Hope to see more of them soon!

The bass is in there. Nolly Getgood used to be the bassist, but he's no longer fulltime in the band. I think he contributes bass parts because they often record with him. But he doesn't perform with them anymore. All their songs have bass though

would love for you to check out the band Kadinja, they're incredibly underrated

Check out Bleed or Clockworks by Meshuggah for some nice math metal style stuff. In college for building guitars we messed around with pendulum rhythms which was really fun. Haven't heard any bands use that, that I know of. Using that with polymeters, polymetrics and trying to make it sound like 4/4 is like a science project and so damn fun to figure out.

I've been listening to them since they first started, I'd suggest checking out Periphery-Absolomb, incredible performance and songwriting

Stranger Things is a 20/10 periphery song 💙

Between The Buried And Me - Astral Body ❤️❤️

3 guitarists and all 3 could lead any one band. The bassist, Nolly, chose to leave full time service in periphery but still tracks for the records and they use his track during live performances. I've been listening to Periphery since their first record and they are hands down in my top 5 of all time. If you get the chance, watch any of the playthrough videos they have done. Any of them are worth it. I have contended that what makes Periphery so special is that you could isolate any one of the members contribution to a song and be content with that isolated individual music.

There were no pinch harmonics in that song

React to nollys play through of prayer position. He’s their bassist.

Waiting for that garden in the bones reaction or something. There is so much good periphery I don’t really care what you react to I will watch (please do the bad thing it’s really good I swear)

Awesome

MAKE TOTAL DESTROY. easily my favorite song

Periphery has a bass player, his name is Jake Bowen... he's the nephew of John Petrucci and he is indeed in the Blood Eagle video

Need to hear Crypta -from the ashes. You must.

I feel like this song doesn't do any of them justice as an introduction song to the band. The lead guitarist is only noticeable when he does the solo and that's a really sad under appreciation of his incredible guitar playing. The singer also barely shows any of his incredible ability to weave clean singing vocals with interesting harmony choices into the overall mix wile also adding purposeful screams for emphasis. I would definitely recommend any song off their first album because even though they've progressively gotten heavier almost every album since, the first album truly showcases each members' talent and the unique style that has developed from it. All the songs on their first album are amazing and even going directly to their second album afterwards is an incredible leap in progress towards refining their style.

Haven’t listened to the new album yet?! Dude! Wildfire!!!

Bro you gotta react to their song Reptile from their latest album, it’s the first song I heard from them and I was hooked

Blood Eagle was a viking torture where they cut open the backs of their enemies and pulled out the lungs onto the back like eagle wings. All while the victim was still alive. Blood Eagle

Just to clarify the bass thing. They dont have a bass player, but they do, sort of xd. Nolly, their previous bass player doesn't play with the band anymore, however he still records the bass tracks for their songs. he's is a VERY talented dude. Good reaction!

Oh yeah and periphery for every albums save for this one had a bass player (namely adam “Nolly” getgood) who plays both completely separate parts to the guitars and also goes along with the guitars. Listen to “absolomb” for some really obvious bass. Also the video for “the bad thing” has Adam in it. Adam is also a guitarist who tracks some of the stuff for the band. After periphery 3 he left the band to pursue more personal projects and now I believe misha mansoor (the dude who played the solo in blood eagle) tracks bass for the band (I think).

They have a bass player, he's just not in the band anymore. If you really want to see the genius of these guys watch one of many documentarys they make during album production. Here's the last one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xOraQdSTWbU.html

Probably gonna be a really unpopular opinion with the Periphery fans out there..but this is their best song IMHO. I really tried to go through their catalog, but it just never clicked with me. This song fucking rocks though! Love it! Great reaction, man.

You definitely can't get an understanding of periphery from 1-3 songs, they run the gambit.

Great reaction. Anyway, can i request your reaction to superb band from japan? The band is call "Lovebites" They all The Beautiful Queens heavy metal band right now in the earth. They are really really World class musicians. Phenomenal. And they have a lot diehard fans like me😁. The fans called Wolfpack. The song is "Set the world on fire" Hope you check out, and can enjoy it too. Big thanks🙏

Periphery toured and some of the members featured on songs by Skyharbor. Skyharbor is a very underrated band, imo. If you feel like it, check out their song Illusion: Celestial, it's their best.

You definitively have to listen and react to Landmvrks - Lost In A Wave and Landmvrks - DEATH. you will love it and enjoy to discover french band :3

This might be heresy but the atonal and really odd time changes in death metal remind me of rap. Full disclosure - which I don't care for. Growlers typically only have three 'notes' - the normal one they typically sing in, a scream an a deeper swallowed tone so there aren't any vocal notes to blend in with the background music. It is all about the rhythm of the words and how it matches with the beat. This also allows for some crazy chord changes and progression.

Adam "nolly" getgood does the bass tracks in the band but hasn't officially been with or toured with be band since there 3rd album. The songs your hearing do indeed have bass tracks on them tho

how does blood eagle poll over reptile lol

I don't think they get nearly enough hype but the fans like me can definitely be rabid I think the problem is some of their hits are actually some of their most mediocre songs and blood eagle is a perfect example Reptile is hyped and it's deserving of it because its IMO in their top 4 songs, and an absolute masterpiece The only shorter "hits" that are worthy of the hype is Alpha and Scarlett.

All the guitar players in periphery are lead guitarist! LOL's

Fun fact all three of the guitarists are the lead guitarist lol

The whole band will tell you the best guitar player in their band is Nolly and he doesn't even play guitar, he plays bass for them, but only in the studio nowadays. He's too busy running GetGood Drums and producing stuff. Whenever they play live, they'll just pipe in his bass backing tracks through the PA. The rhythm part after the solo reminded me of a side project band called Conquering Dystopia, it's Jeff Loomis on lead and Keith Merrow on rhythm. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ATMNVWq21A4.html

I challenge you to find a flaw in Periphery's use of three guitarists. They all play lead.

They are worth the hype, imo. I must be the only person in the world though that doesn't like this particular album. There's just something about it that doesn't resonate with me. The best way I can put it is they found their sound. They were in the zone. But then they overreached and this is the result. It just feels forced compared to their previous efforts.

No bass player

Satellites is their best song, no contest. not their most technical song, but definitely the most emotional and Spencer's display of his range in that song is fucking insane. you won't regret it.