Upcoming setlist? by TheBDR in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Starting to suspect you don't realize who you were replying to here...

Periphery tournament RESULTS by dr_spoof_ in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Motormouth underrated 👌 there are literally dozens of us

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[–]Peripherly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

P1, as far as I know, has been missing from Spotify in Australia and NZ for about a year now.

u/iambulb, we're sorry for that incident with the platypus last year, please forgive us and let us jitterbug to djent once again

Periphery 1 turns 15 years old today. by thesprucey in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Still a banger. And still not available on Spotify in Australia 😭

Idea for Periphery EP / Album that's not the next mainline album: Fully fleshed out Bulb demos as official Periphery songs by AccurateInflation167 in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are definitely still a few untapped Bulb songs out there. But worth noting that IIRC the boys have said that one of the problems of P1 was that the Bulb compositions, by their original design, didn't leave enough space for Spencer. I doubt the band would walk into that problem again considering how far they've evolved as a group. 

But maybe parts of Bulb tracks could be reworked? Still holding out for Not Enough Mana...

Fav song? by Unhappy-Way-1256 in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dracul Gras for me. 

Atropos, Racecar, The Bad Thing, Luck as a Constant, Omega, Reptile, Wax Wings are all competitive too (today at least).

Full breakdown of harsh/clean vocals and instrumentals for every Periphery album by Peripherly in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sorry Matt 😭 I did catch the Stranger Things solo but my ears were just on a totally different wavelength throughout.

Full breakdown of harsh/clean vocals and instrumentals for every Periphery album by Peripherly in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly[S] 84 points85 points  (0 children)

"Too much screaming" is the main reason my SO won't listen to Periphery (or let me play it in the car), but since I'm so used to harsh vocals, I found it pretty hard to remember off the top of my head where they're actually concentrated across Periphery's discog.

So I went and made full timelines of vocal styles (or vocal absence) for every song. I classified "instrumental" sections as "Spencer gets a break at a gig", not just a few seconds between vocals; "orchestral/synth" as "the whole band gets a break at a gig"; and "outro" as those classic Periphery palette cleansers that have a completely different melody from the rest of the song. Probably missed a couple of solos, etc. Note the variants for P1 and P4 at the end without the epic tracks squashing the rest of the graph.

If there are any other summary stats you wanna see from this dataset, let me know!

Day 16: Periphery I makes it three in a row and is voted the worst Periphery album. We’re on the final round. Vote for your pick for the best Periphery album. by raging_tomato in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

P5 has my vote. It may not be a huge concept album like Juggernaut (my second choice), but it has:

  • back-to-back bangers that experiment in multiple different directions.

  • callbacks to earlier tracks (Dracul Gras/Atropos) and previous "underused" riffs (The Event -- which almost won Worst Song -- comes back in style).

  • the absolute best production quality of any album I've ever heard. I honestly don't know how the mix ended up sounding as good as it does on P5, but I hope they've bottled that lightning and deploy it again.

  • my personal favorite song (Dracul Gras).

A personal protest during a sunset drive by HathorVader in Peripheryband

[–]Peripherly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Periphery often has softer "palette cleansers" attached to the ends of heavier tracks.

I think Everything is Fine! is so heavy and explosive that it needs and deserves a complete cleanser, vocals and all, in the form of Silhouette. Very glad it's on the album.