Periphery

by Periphery

Overview

As a genre, metal has always been firmly rooted in pushing music to new extremes, taking the sounds we've come to know and love from other styles and pushing them well past their limits until they become something new. Always looking to pushing things into increasingly lower directions is Periphery, the new project from expanded-range guitarist Misha "Bulb" Mansoor. Utilizing a combination of extreme tunings and studio magic on the eponymous album, Periphery presents us with a combination of blistering fretwork, extreme tunings, and studio magic to create a maelstrom of prog guitar worship reminiscent of Meshuggah and the Dillinger Escape Plan. While lightning-fast playing and odd chord structures and time signatures are certainly a part of Periphery's charm, the production on the album helps to give it a razor-sharp edge over some of the competition. The band uses the studio here almost as an instrument in and of itself, controlling not just what you hear, but how you hear it. Guitars are gated and compressed into tones that are almost mechanical, replacing anything resembling bluesy warmth with a sound that is stark and metallic, at times sounding more like a piece of industrial equipment than a stringed instrument. What's most impressive about the whole thing is that they manage to pull the whole thing off without sounding over-produced. By pushing the production to such limits, the album manages to blast through the typical production cliches to create a sonic assault that should quickly change your reaction from "Why did they do that?" to "How did they do that?," making Periphery an album that'll give lovers of prog metal something to sink their teeth into. ~ Gregory Heaney

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/2023
Label:	3DOT RECORDINGS
UPC:	0843563169179

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Periphery   Primary Artist
Jeff Loomis   Soloist,Guest Artist
John Petrucci   Soloist
Jake Bowen   Guitar,Soloist
Guthrie Govan   Soloist
Misha Mansoor   Guitar,Soloist
Adam "Nolly" Getgood   Soloist,Guest Artist
Alex Bois   Guitar
Elliot Coleman   Vocals
Matt Halpern   Drums
Spencer Sotelo   Vocals
Tom Murphy   Bass
Casey Sabol   Vocals,Guest Artist
Wes Hauch   Soloist
Alice McIlrath   Violin
Lezlie Smith   Cello

Technical Credits

Matt Murphy   Vocal Producer,Composer,Lyricist,Vocal Mixing,Vocal Engineer
Jake Bowen   Group Member
Ken Dudley   Engineer
Mike Mowery   Management
Misha Mansoor   Mixing,Engineer,Mastering,Group Member
Alex Bois   Group Member
Benjamin Guarino   Design,Artwork
Matt Halpern   Group Member
Spencer Sotelo   Group Member
Tom Murphy   Group Member
Casey Sabol   Composer,Lyricist,Vocal Mixing,Vocal Engineer,Vocal Producer
Randy Slaugh   Producer,String Arrangements
Periphery   Composer,Lyricist,Producer,Vocal Mixing,Vocal Engineer,Vocal Producer
Chris Barretto   Composer,Lyricist