I'm not old enough to have grown up with a lot of classic prog, but I was a classic prog fan before I even knew Periphery. Subsequently, I am now a fan of the Progressive Metalcore Subgenre known as "Djent".
Sound Out The Braille That's OK, I just happen to have a background in classical music, so I have a trained ear for distinguishing sub-genres and classifications. The Progressive aspect is definitely more apparent than the Experimental aspect. It's not Björk level, but it's there. What I really like about the Djent genre is that all the bands sound different. They all have a unique defining factors about them. Some are very Progressive, some Math, some Jazzy, some Electronic, some just plain sound like Meshuggah. But in the end, there's something for everyone. I think that's just great.
4 years ago I commented "This sucks so bad, I dont understand how anyone could listen to this garbage the vocalist sucks" Someone commented "You'll understand one day" WELL GUESS WHAT. I live and breath this band. I've loved Periphery for years now... Favorite band by far. \,,/
Kinda funny because I"m the opposite. I used be all about this band and the wave of "Djent" bands that were popping up back in 2009-2011. But then it all started sounding the same. Theres so many bands that have this sound and they follow the same formula, similar vocals, melodies, etc. Not to mention how everyone and their grandma has a 7 and 8 string just so they can chug on the low strings lol. I still respect these guys but I feel I kinda burnt myself out on their music.
Back when periphery ruled clean to dirty transitions of all chug a chugga than time change bands in my opinion Born of Osiris also damn BTBM tooo. these boys killed all live❤
Thank you for purchasing Periphery's self titled debut long play record, Periphery! On this album, you'll hear heavy metal; a genre of music from the future! Be dazzled by distortion, be bombarded by bass beats, and Djitter-bug to Djent! We're sure you'll enjoy such finger-popping tunes as Light, Insomnia, and my own personal favorite, Ragtime Dandies! These songs and more are played by our talented troop of traveling troubadours, featuring the likes of Misha, the electric light bulb, Mansoor, who was voted the twenty-third most influential person in Brown Magazine and can be found on the cover of this month's Mocha Emporium! And look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Trent Reznor, no, it's Jake Bowen and his seven strings of wonder! Rounding off the trio of strings-men is Alex Bois, the man with the arms of steel and the arse of a skunk! On drums is Matt Halpern, the only man who can break three cymbals with one swing of the stick! Our lead singer will be Spencer Sotelo, who's voice goes up like an angel... and down like a wounded ox... Last, but not least, is Tom Murphy; providing the rumble from down under and is the only member of Periphery decent enough for the institution of marriage. Experience heavy metal at it's finest! Periphery, LOVE THAT SHIT!
Thank you for purchasing Periphery's self-titled debut long play record... PERIPHERY! On this album, you'll hear heavy metal, a genre of music FROM THE FUTURE! Be dazzled by distortion! Be bombarded by bass-beats! And jitterbug to djent!
That's definitely Spencer on vocals Chris left and Spencer used his lyrics and melodies. But that is Spencer on vocals just check the Wikipedia he's credited as lead vocals.
LYRICS: Believe in memories to resurrect me Besieged by falling dreams Hold them tightly Adorn my wings to thee, and use them nightly I'm neither angel nor a demon spawn Though some will call me god Gravity is just a law I've wrought Hear temptation take the sky for all to see Sheer elation to write in history I'm neither angel nor a demon spawn Though some will call me god Gravity is just a feeble plot When I said I'd never kneel again What I really meant Was (fucking) pull the pin because time is spent I'm neither angel nor a demon spawn Though some will call me god Fuck Unite with ravens on their shadow flights As my nocturnal right Gravity is just a mortal's vice When I said I'd never feel or see Love and sight are last resorts for me
If you guys aren't digging Spencer's clean vocals on this track I can totally understand. This isn't really one of their strongest songs in my opinion. I highly suggest to listen to Periphery II. His vocals on that album make it incredibly hard not to love. "Ragnarok" and "Make Total Destroy" for example.
I remember the day I heard this song. It was after hearing Animals As Leaders and Tesseract for the first time. I remember seeing a thumbnail for Periphery and when I first listened I wasn't sure if I liked it, but I kept coming back to it. I actually didnt' listen to PI all that much, and I later heard "Have A Blast" and DELVED into PII, which would eventually lead me back to PI. I now listen to PI quite often. Today, with PIII out, I have to say that Alpha and PII are still my favorites, but Periphery can do no wrong.
We went pretty hard dude, I've got no idea what the Japan crowds do but Australia has a pretty soft live music crowd to begin with, so it should be pretty brutal
Before 2019 I went 16 years of my life without listening to Periphery but hey🤷♀️ Now I know their whole discography, I also listen to Bulb, Haunted Shores, and King Mothership.
@@twinny_mi 2021 for me, when I turned 18. Honestly I don't think I was even mature enough to listen to them before, I was religious first of all, and with an entirely different mindset. Had I seen the title "Hail Stan" then, I'd just turn away and never listen again. Now I'm super glad I didn't because it is my favorite album in existence, and it's not even a competition.
@@venturer9400 hey, I'm a recovering ex-Christian and I getchu! Blood Eagle is my fav track on Hail Stan as well as Sentient Glow, though I like to listen to the guitar playthrough of that song because the instrumental is one of my favs from Periphery. I love the boys in Periphery and their trolling in the titles as well. I can't wait for their new stuff coming out soon, they're working on it right now.
@@twinny_mi My first contact with Periphery was actually Blood Eagle in 2020, and I vividly remember being repulsed by the amount of screaming there. Now I can appreciate it a lot more, but my second listening experience in October was Satellites, which was far easier to digest and appreciate. Then followed Lune and Reptile and all the rest of P3 and P4 - I'm currently listening to P1 and the Juggernauts one by one since I haven't explored them much, and then i'll have completed the discography I think. To be fair, Blood Eagle is still too aggressive for me and Spencer kind of swallows a lot of words there, but I'll easily listen to songs like that and Church Burner if I get to hear 7 more amazing songs on the record. Nowadays Satellites, Reptile and Lune are my top 3, perhaps even among all songs I listen to as a whole. It's not a surprise that Periphery is my favorite band. It's interesting that both of us left Christianity though. I've never replaced the love I feel for life and humanity, it's just that the beauty of this world is found in fairy tales as much as it is in heavy metal. The mindset that this genre is essentially evil is something that plagued me for too long.
And yeah, I saw the wips for P5. Part of me expects it to be a letdown because of how high the bar was set with the last two, but I'm prepared for my mind to be blown again.
Thank you for purchasing Periphery's self-titled debut long play record. Periphery! On this album you'll hear heavy metal, a genre of music from the future! Be dazzled by distortion! Be bombarded with bass beats, and jitterbug to djent! We're sure you'll enjoy such finger-popping tunes as Light, Insomnia, and my own personal favourite, RAGTIME DANDIES! These songs and more are played by our talented troupe of travelling troubadours. and so on :)
The Swedish band Meshuggah and the British band Sikth are credited as the inspirations for the djent technique. The movement itself emerged from the solo recordings of Misha Mansoor of Periphery, with Periphery subsequently bringing djent "from the virtual world into the real one."
1. Realize Spencers singing isnt even that bad on this album 2. Listen to Periphery II, Clear, or Juggernaut and realize this guy is extremely talented and has improved greatly since this first album. 3. Profit.
@@americandesideriobold3925 Well, the cleans are pretty darn good on this album. The screams...not so much. But sponce has come a long long way and now his cleans and screams have both improved so much
apparently some people are dissing spencer's voice? like he's improved so much over the years but even back then he was really good. what the hell are you talking about? also, if you're looking at the comments scroll back up the video cause theyre doing the crab dance
What's unbelievable is how OBSESSED with "scene" and "genre" so many of us are. Clean vocals don't fit in to our "established hardcore scene" so as soon as a sung pitch is heard we turn our untrained ears off. "Oh but it's music, it's subjective, I can say whatever I want and spread it to the world." You know what? No you can't. Fuck that. I didn't spend 5 years, 16 hours a day (2-4 of which were practicing), at 21 credit hours a semester, getting two music degrees, to be told my hard work is "pussy shit" or that "the last album was better" by kids who bring their guitar to high school with them and call themselves musicians. If you don't like a style of music then say "I don't like it" and move on with your life. You literally have no right to make any claims about another artist's work other than "I like it" or "I don't like it". Now if you'd like to analyze it theoretically, or even historically, be my guest. You'll find it's far more complex, unique, and intricate than 99% of the bullshit we consider "music" today (although not quite as much as most art-music post 19th century); and I think the fact that progressive rock bands like Periphery are trying to bridge the current, VAST, gap between art music and popular music is pretty god damn respectable.
Oh grow the fuck up, you pretentious sack of shit. If someone doesn't like this than so what? You're just as bad as those lame 50 year olds who claim their time was better. I love this, but if someone doesn't so what? Does it hurt me or offend me? No, and does it offend or hurt Misha or anyone else? No www.reddit.com/r/progmetal/comments/1igvvz/no_matter_how_hard_i_try_i_cant_seem_to_get_into/cb6qjcw See that, Misha, the guitarist/main songwriter of this, is actually mature, unlike you. He realizes this and that it's not important nor does it judge your value. So please, grow the fuck up or get the fuck out, you pretentious, self-indulged sack of shit. Music *IS* subjective and anyone who claims it isn't needs to pull their head out of their ass and breath the cool, fresh air or reality.
TheRatSquid Congrats on missing the whole point of the comment. He/she is in no way saying music isn't subjective, they're saying that to label a song or band shit when you don't even have any actual knowledge of music and songwriting is flat out ignorant. End of story. You can like it and dislike it, but your opinion on musical quality from a theoretical perspective holds no merit whatsoever unless you actually understand how and why it works. You don't get to critique a book if you don't understand what most of the words mean.
Music, to a listener, is subjective. You may have noticed I never said it wasn't, I was only irritated at how some immature people use this as a means for judgement and labeling. The composition factor, however, does in fact involve a lot of objective concepts, which give the art, as a whole, depth beyond what is simply "heard". Believing music is only subjective and judging it based solely on what you hear is like assuming a five star steak will taste bad because it's brown, and you don't like that color.
Misha used the word "like" 3 times in his reddit comment. That's all I want from listeners, to use words line "like" and "don't like" instead of "good" or "bad"
I don’t think people realize just how much influence this song had. The djent scene still exists, but it was only in the spotlight for a short time. However, it seeped into the larger world of metal enough that the “djent” sound is all over modern metal songs. You can put on any modern metal playlist and hear that staccato, throaty kind of sound all over the place.
right? I remember first discovering periphery back in 2009 haha, and there are people who listened to them when they were just a project on soundcloud!
Spencer got alot of unfair criticism for his vocals on this album but people gotta understand he came in to this album where the lyrics and vocal melodies were already written. He really SHINES P2 and onward, displaying his range.
@@fornever5656 How can you say this in 2020, when Spencer has greatly improved on his vocals? Periphery has nearly 400,000 listeners on Spotify, and millions of listens? Like I think that if anything the band has gained a lot more fans. And plus, the members of the band have kept Spencer in the band despite him apparently acting like a jackass on tour for PI album came out. (from an interview with them I forget where it is.) But their dynamic has changed a lot over the years. If you look at documentaries of their recent albums they get along pretty well and in fact Spencer does vocals last *most* of the time when recording. So to say that this band sucks now because they focus on Spencer is wrong. I saw in an interview with Misha that he still has old riffs he wrote back in Haunted Shores that he wants to make into more songs in the future (I think it was referencing Sentient Glow.) They got their own record label now, they left Sumerian in 2016 and have many different ways of making money. Spencer has his own project with Matt that's under the label that's made some waves. For Spencer to be the factual downfall of this band is untrue. And from my knowledge Periphery never went through a downfall? From an opinion standpoint, I can understand why people may not enjoy his vocals and I respect that, but if it bothers you that much don't listen to the band. if you came into the Icarus Lives comment section to say that it sounds kinda petty.
"Spencer's vocals are too high-pitched! It ruins the music for me." >actively listens to Rob Halford and Dio without complaint. inb4 le epick maymay arrows
techdeathcurator They're entirely different styles of vocals. I happen to think the vocals fit in this song, though. Dios vocals wouldn't fit in this, and Spencer would sound stupid singing a Rainbow song. Nice memearchery btw ;
No point having a vocalist with a lower range. Vocals wouldn't cut through the mix. Matt Halpern explains that about having trouble with having his drums cutting through.
Really wish the rain filter wasn't on so I could actually see what all the members of Periphery looked like way back then, and what gear they were using!
I was still eating dirt when the is was released. I definitely got on the periphery train a bit late but I’m still here enjoying the music so it doesn’t matter much.
Once I listened to periphery for the first time. Heard that intro riff...insta classic. It's pretty rare where a band can come up with riffs that make you instantly be able to recognize a song in just a couple of notes. Hearing it makes me feel like a badass. just LISTENING to periphery makes me feel so much cooler. its strange
since when did people start hating clean vocals? and when did clean vocals get termed clean? Meshuggah is probably my favorite Metal band of all time and Jen's has the harshest or vocals yet I love listening to Daniel/Ashe of Tesseract sing their B4's and C#5's, clean preferably. Clean vocals can be just as epic.
i love this band, they really showed me that even the best melodies are worth nothing without a great rhythmic arrangement - it applies to everything, even pop and rap
This is the shit. Still holds up as one of the best songs I've ever listened to. Every time I hear people say something about Maryland music, I turn them to you.
2009 was the greatest year for me. All these bands were dropping absolute madness. Flawless among the fallen, After the burial, all shall parish, the black dahlia, the faceless, animals as leaders, the black dahlia murder, necrophagist, decapitation, as I lay dieing, periphery and I can keep going
I remember listening to this song for the first time when I was 14. Im 22 now. I used to hate Spencer's voice. Now I fucking love it. Damn, the progress he had with time...
I remember hearing this song in a trailer for V8 Superstars Racing 10 years ag(literally, 2011), I watched the trailer so many times just because the song was so cool and the game looked fun Only found out this year who wrote it but recognized it instantly when I heard the real version. And the reason I found it is because the drummer played the DOOM soundtrack with mick Gordon at the game awards in 2016. I saw the name of his band in the comments. 5 years later I finally checked out "periphery " and stumbled onto this Video games lead me to a great band
periphery should re-record this song, spencer sounds soooooooo much better now... and their overall mixes have improved a lot, because.. nolly nollynollynolly
Idk i really like how spongey the P1 tone was. Feel like a lot of bands in the genre have lost that in favour of a more realistic but more piercing tone.
Misha has actually been working on a new recording of this song but I don't know if he ever finished it or plans to. I think he said that he feels completely uninspired by this album and feel like working on it just takes time off from working on new stuff.
The self-titled album is such a masterpiece. Although the second album was awesome, too, this album kicks ass on another level. Clear will be great, and I believe that Juggernaut will be even better! 2014 is going to be a great year for music.
This is and forever will be Periphery's "main" song. I don't care if it's not like their "old stuff" or sounds different from their "new stuff" to me, this song just kicks ass as a solid single. I am saying this mainly because I don't care for their new stuff haha!
What entertains me the most is when people who are not fans of Periphery, come to a PERIPHERY video to smack talk. If you don't like it, and you know you don't like it, why click the video?
@@marsamune5592 I just saw a 2-year-old comment from myself and I also complained the volume wasn't loud enough... I'm probably half-deaf for having the volume up so high wearing headphones, but perhaps the video itself isn't loud enough, too.
I've never listened to this song without going directly into "Totla Mad", it felt like half the song was missing without that immediate transition. Definitely an album that deserves to be played to completion....everytime.
I'm just starting to listen to Periphery and this shit is incredible. I prefer Spencer's newer screams compared to this but the dude and the band as a whole are just so unbelievably talented.
I remember thinking this was weird when I was 14. Lol As I Lay Dying and KSE were so much better, now I walk around campus between classes humming Blood Eagle and tapping the drums after listening to P2 and Alpha/Omega through and through
don't know why people hating on the band/vocalist. they are amazing when it comes to composing. the vocals are only added as an afterthough. i admit some songs sound better as an instrumental but songs like this, i feel the vocalist does justice. i mean imagine Jetpacks is a Yes! without vocals. (there is a track) It sounds like there's something missing until it's added in. that and Make Total Destroy also sound amazing with Spencer's vocals behind it.
this band is gay- wtf? how can someone call this band is gay ? they simply make good music. their singer is not good- wtf ?he hits all the notes and has a good voice imo. so shut up and enjoy this epic music
We had no idea how influential this was going to be at the time, it was disregarded as a simple cheap Meshugga clone. We really took this era for granted.
Periphery full set live in brixton HQ filmed 3 years ago posted by peripheryfan498 was such a good recording. Spencers vocals are so raw and heavy sounding but yet they play with so much emotion. It realy took me to a far away place to where the meaning of true love lies within our hearts. Awesome set!
