STUNNING! Periphery - Absolomb 

When I discovered Periphery a couple of years ago I thought the same....why haven't I heard this band before? I'm now a huge fan, and Absolum is one of my favourite songs!! I would also recommend the band TesseracT, if you haven't checked them out already. They just dropped an amazing new release.... I would highly recommend Legion, especially if you like soaring vocals....it's a masterpiece. Cheers🤘

For many of us the screaming conveys and releases emotion. Lot’s of metal music has deep/emotional lyrics and the screams really emphasise that, as well as including more versatility and different techniques take LOTS of practise to do like years and years. It’s not for everyone, but it definitely has it’s respect, skill and place in metal.

The orchestral part at the end is a motif featured throughout the album, but It’s the main progression to their song Lune. It’s awesome how their songs have callbacks to others constantly.

After 25 yrs of metal for me this is thee best yet

I always come back to Periphery and this song. It’s my roots in metalcore.

This is typically a song that grabs your attention even you want it or not. Those changes of key and style just makes your "head turn" -what is this? Incredible interesting and colorful track with amazing vocals from Spencer. Oh and not to mention the awesome orchestral soundtrack at the end. They tend to do that xD You should def write down "Satellites" or the much longer track "Reptile" (16:45) xP

You've noted that they're not as well known as Sleep Token, but my argument for that is they're more influential. Their song 'Reptile' inspired the song 'Bury the Light'. Their former bassist did the drums for Bury the Light as well. Also any metalcore/prog metal band post 2010 that has the low 0s and funky riffs and melodies has been inspired by either Meshuggah or Periphery. Edit: If you love soaring vocals, I recommend Wax Wings from their newest album, and maybe Dying Star and Thanks Nobuo (Feel free to skip the long outro)

Great music invokes emotion. Emotion can manifest in many forms. The more tools a band and singer has to call out our emotions, the more we engage and stay engaged. Periphery and especially Spencer have all of those tools to keep us emotionally engaged with everything they're doing. Throughout their entire catalogue, you can really tell that they are extremely cognizant about how and when they apply their specific techniques. Times and places for growling, singing, harmonies, chugging guitar, solo notes, drum fills, orchestral overlays, etc. Periphery does it all.. and does it all so masterfully.

That was a great reaction, keep it up man

They are my favorite band and Spencer is my favorite singer. They are great live. Get to see them again in November. Think you would like Lune, Wax Wings, Satellites where there are less harsh vocals. They showcase Spencer's talent.

Usually I would disagree about the harsh vocals, but for periphery, cleans are by far the best part. The non screaming version of jetpacks was yes is still my favourite version of it

You have absolutely got to dive into their back catalogue. Reptile (a 17 minute odyssey), Stranger Things, Luck as a Constant, Satellites (this one you'll love if you like Spencers clean vocals), Psychosphere, Dracul Gras...

Just came from your reaction to Wild fire and I about died when you said Spencer’s singing was mediocre, and was on the floor when not even 30 seconds later you took it back haha it’s awesome to see a first reaction to this stuff, been a fan for years, you have only scratched the surface my friend!

Love Periphery. Give Atropos a try. I Know you will enjoy this one

I'd say this album (p3) is the best to recommend to a sleep token fan but it is totally different but it's got more of the mainstream sounding stuff like this song The best on p3 for me is Habitual Line Stepper (yes, that's a Chappelle's show reference lol). It's super heavy, but also has some of the most beautiful music they've ever done. It's a mindfuck of a song

To find the timing to the weird rhythms just try to find the steady snare/cymbals at all times, you actually get trained to do that with progressive music like this lmao. If it’s not 4/4, time to count! :( Especially helps with other bands like Meshuggah and TesseracT (check them out!!). Their new album dropped on the 15th and it’s pretty nuts, very melodic and groovy.

This was the first Periphery song I heard, and Periphery was the first band to get me into metal. I liked Tool before that, but I had never thought of Tool as metal. It's kind of cool to see someone experience this as their second song. I think it's really accessible for people who don't like the harsh vocals and really heavy distortion of typical metal. The beauty of the orchestral arrangements and Spencer's singing really show that metal can be very unique and varied. You'll have to get used to screams and growls if you want to hear more Periphery. You ask why they do it if someone like Spencer can do crazy high notes and awesome clean vocals...well, because sometimes it makes more sense to scream or growl than to sing beautifully. Metal songs are often about dark, difficult things. Using harsh vocals gives you another form of expression. It only makes sense for certain parts, you'll understand that in time.

I'm a drummer that plays a Lil guitar and when I would write riffs they'd often have weird timing like that bass riff. When I first heard periphery the riffs made me think, their guitar player must be a drummer. Sure enough, Misha started as a drummer lol

for a periphery song where the screams really stand out as conveying emotion, take a listen to "The Scourge". it's one of my personal favourite songs of theirs and i think it's heavily underrated. it has way more screaming than absolomb, but there are plenty of really cool moments where spencer goes off the charts with his clean vocal techniques.

The timing is actually a lot easier than it sounds. As a casual bass player I figured it out relatively easily

The music reminds me a lot of Doom for some reason. =P (then again, I've played a lot of Doom in the last 11 months, haha)

The drummer is phrasing over the bar line which creates the odd timing 🤘

Do habitual line stepper 🥲

TesseracT are another band you may not have heard that I think you'd like. Mostly clean vocals and very tecnical. King, Nocturne and Legion which is off of their new album would be good choices

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To me the addition of harsh vocals is purely functional. Some songs need a little, some songs need only harsh vocals and some clearly don't. There's something to be said for 'contrasting ugliness' to maximise beauty. I don't like certain growling that sounds monotone for bars on end or too animal-like. I like it when it's done with pitch, intent and the same attention to pronunciation as a clean vocal. For Spencer its really a layer on top of his clean vocal sound, just like a guitar switches to a distorted sound. I dig his technique, he can do it live too and some songs by Periphery I know I can't do without it. edit; the outros/intros are palette cleansers between songs, they seamlessly transition most of the time.

request reaction new album, song is zagreus or draculgrass

It's a real shame you don't understand the skill and melodic beauty of screaming. It adds so much. You should try and open up your mind to it more.