Is Periphery Worthy of the Hype?! Blood Eagle - Reaction!
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The opening track to this album is a 16 min work of art.
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.
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.
Thanks! That means a lot!
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 😊👍
He's also their producer and mixing engineer and he's one of the absolute best in the business at it. Their mixes are incredible
@@HugoStiglitz88 fax
And if you search "bass playthrough" on TH-cam, his is the first one that pops up. It's incredible!
@@metal-adjacent yea but his playthrough of Make Total Destroy is much better. Plus it's a much better song.
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.
Thanks for the guide. You're right I think sometimes when introducing a band to someone order matters. It's hard to fully grasp the whole without context.
I'll keep this comment in mind. Thankyou!
Yea you right
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.
Just to add onto this, while he doesn't take part in the writing process nor he likes to tour anymore, he still masters the band's songs
hell yes love me some periphery! check out the bad thing. Periphery is very progressive and my favorite band. they have something for everyone
This SONG has something for everyone! Haha.
Awesome reaction man! Hope to see more of them soon!
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.
There's a live version of this right?
@@PrymalChaos Yer, but if its the meinl cymbal one there are better live versions ( Singer was a bit sick and the levels are a bit off) and to be honest the studio recording is best first listen because the track has a lot going on and its good to hear it with crisp production.....if you do live I recommend reptile from live in londan, Spencer sounds really good on this recording
th-cam.com/video/qV4H7M4I20U/w-d-xo.html
This is a good live recording
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.
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 ;)
Also am color-deficient so I respect the promo!
There are so many of us!
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.
Ok cool! Yeah one of the interesting things about this journey is starting with zero context and then having your expectations shattered.
I knew there was more to his voice. Many (not all) extreme vocalists don't have much else in their toolbox. So I'd love to hear what else he's got.
Reptile is The song we want you to react next! Or maybe satellites?
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.
I'm keen to deep dive.
For what it's worth, Jake Bowen one of the guitarist, is the nephew of John Petruccii of Dream Theater.
Ohhh. What a cool Uncle to have.
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
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
Ahh ok.
Would be sick to see you do Reptile :D
It's definitely on the list.
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.
if you want to see how masterful their compositions get, check out their song 'habitual line-stepper'
That is their most underrated song, hands down. That song is incredible. It goes from brutally heavy to epic and beautiful. Love that song
Normally I skim through reactions but I didn't since your commentary is interesting, great reaction!
Thanks! I appreciate that comment more than you know. I try to add value to the experience in any way I can!
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.
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.
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
Thanks mate!
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
Every guitar player ever wasn't crazy about their solo. I know what he's saying but it was pretty rad! Definitely tricky. I wonder if he though it may be too wanky. Like showing off too much or something. Who knows. Great solo though.
Misha is not the soloist lol do you mean in just this song? Cuz they all play solos in the songs. They're all Lead guitar players. The only rhythm player is the bass player, cuz even the drummer does solos in songs too
@@HugoStiglitz88 in this song
Reptile!!!
Yesss. I want him to do the live one
@@metal-adjacent It depends which live one, the one in the studio wasnt a great recording
Should just do the studio version first, its quite a complex long song with a lot going on, its best heard how it was intended to be recorded first....after that it would be cool to do a live track, just see them nail it.
@@moatfloater I think the studio one was a great recording except for Jake's backing vocal level.
@@metal-adjacent Spencer kind of sounds a bit warn too as well as there being no effects on his voice. I quite like some of the live concert clips. but still I think if listening to Reptile for the first time, studio version is a must.
Any of the stuff off of Periphery I is so good.
People don’t talk about it anymore. The vocal & riff writing is better than any other album of theirs, since Spencer’s not as good of a writer as Casey Sabol was, who wrote most of Periphery I’s vocals.
Spencer is an amazing vocalist (I think he might even have perfect pitch, but I could be remembering that wrong)
He’d have to have something going on to keep up with the rest of the guys. Thanks for reminding me, need to get back to these guys!
My band writes the flow similar to ur last word... We keep tempo not measures or bars
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)
Haven’t listened to the new album yet?! Dude! Wildfire!!!
would love for you to check out the band Kadinja, they're incredibly underrated
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!
Thanks mate! 👍
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
hes a guitarist, Nolly was the bass player
Need to hear Crypta -from the ashes. You must.
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
With guitars getting so detuned these days and with 8 strings etc it's getting harder to tell. Mostly it's that there is a different flavour to how a bass player typically approaches parts. Makes my job harder. 😂🤘
@@PrymalChaos Yeah Nolly pretty much follows the rythm guitars with his bass.
@@Zakta2100 In songs like Absolomb or older songs where he's used slap parts more it's really made the song, not to mention he's contributed to countless guitar parts himself, I know you're not claiming against him, just sayin for @PrymalChaos
Awesome
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
Yikes! They did that to someone in the movie Misommer, wasn't pretty.
@@PrymalChaos It is also shown in an episode of Vikings. It's not pretty and I believe you die of suffocation.
The Amon Amarth song of the same name is a lot more descriptive.
@@EricMcLuen yeah so the way you breathe is that the muscles around your ribcage expand and because there is a vacuum sticking your lungs to the interior of their cavity when the ribs expand so do your lungs. If your ribcage is punctured your lung deflates because that vacuum seal is broken. Hence the scene in Midsomer where you see the lungs expand and contract is technically hokum. It looked sick though. 😆😆🤘
This song is so fucking gooooood.
I've been listening to them since they first started, I'd suggest checking out Periphery-Absolomb, incredible performance and songwriting
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
There were no pinch harmonics in that song
React to nollys play through of prayer position. He’s their bassist.
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.
It'd be Luck as a Constant or Ragnarok being my favorite. Pretty much the whole Periphery II album is awesome.
Cool!
@@bwheels5087 great freakin songs
Stranger Things is a 20/10 periphery song 💙
I like those odds!
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).
I love how their lineup is kinda fluid.
@@PrymalChaos definitely was in the beginning, but now with the exception of nolly no one has left or joined in a solid 10 years
@@PrymalChaos Eh...it was fluid. Its been the same basic band for over a decade now.
Their bassist situation os tenuous but their bassist didnt want to tour anymore...but they didnt want to replace him either...he still records the bass on their albums and is their producer and mastering guy.
so they dont have a bassist...and do at the same time.
@@Posirep yeah. Good that he’s still friends with the band. It was really cool to see nolly do collabs with plini
It’s interesting how everyone’s talking about Nolly now & giving history when back in the day when I discovered him he was just some dude playing SikTh songs on TH-cam & living in Bath, England.
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.
Good tip! Thank you. I was just thinking that I never got back to Periphery. Maybe this is a sign.
@@PrymalChaos well, it's hard to go wrong with periphery. Pretty solid group.
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.
Any standouts? I have been meaning to jump back in to these guys before I lose track.
@@PrymalChaos It's hard to say that any stick out over the others because they're all amazing but Icarus Lives! and Jetpacks Was Yes are the only ones that have music videos.
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
I heard there's a good live version.
@@PrymalChaos If you mean that studio live, Spencers voice sounds a bit weird at the start there imo. But instrumentally its 100% gold.
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🙏
Sounds cool!
@@PrymalChaos yes. And Lovebites have a lot diehard fans like me🤘🐺🤘
MAKE TOTAL DESTROY. easily my favorite song
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
the band was so worried they wouldn't be able to capture the same sound Adam does so they agreed to have him basically be a independent part of the band
Smart. I feel like replacing a band member might be the hardest thing you can do.
how does blood eagle poll over reptile lol
I know
Reptile will probably be next.
You definitely can't get an understanding of periphery from 1-3 songs, they run the gambit.
I can see that I'm gonna have a long relationship with Periphery.
@@PrymalChaos 😍😍😍
Between The Buried And Me - Astral Body ❤️❤️
That band name has always seemed interesting to me because it ties in to a lyric from Counting Crows. I mean is it a coincidence? It doesn't seem like a conscious decision.
I took the cannonball down to the ocean,
Across the desert from sea to shining sea,
I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation,
Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me
@@PrymalChaos that’s actually exactly where the name came from. The members of the band have a super eclectic music interest, and although they play pretty heavy chaotic stuff, their music is rooted in a wide variety of influences. Including Counting Crows. ☺️
@@OTProd No shit!! August and Everything After to me is a perfect album. I never suspected that people from the metal community would reference it though. Small world.
@@PrymalChaos I can't guarantee you'll like BTBAM, they are a challenging band to listen to, but they are endlessly intriguing in terms of composition. Astral Body is relatively short and has some guitar noodly stuff I think you might really appreciate.
@@OTProd I'll take a look!
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. th-cam.com/video/xOraQdSTWbU/w-d-xo.html
Here's another previous documentary that may be a better starting point.
Sorry I failed to paste the link for that last one...th-cam.com/video/Pi3WUouE3uo/w-d-xo.html
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.
A fair assessment.
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.
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. th-cam.com/video/ATMNVWq21A4/w-d-xo.html
Haha. That's crazy. It's like when someone asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world and John Lennon said, Ringo's not even the best drummer in the band!
All the guitar players in periphery are lead guitarist! LOL's
Yeah. Excellent point.
Fun fact all three of the guitarists are the lead guitarist lol
😂
@@PrymalChaos I mean...its true...each of them solo on various song. This was just Misha's song for a solo lol
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.
Really ? I actually think it's the complete opposite (reffering to the feeling forced part). This was their first album under their own label, so they had complete freedom. The whole album felt like something they personally are happy with. I do agree that they are worth the hype though.
I challenge you to find a flaw in Periphery's use of three guitarists. They all play lead.
It seems to work really well.
@@PrymalChaos you got a lot to listen to. Check out the Juggernaut albums. Double concept album, full of lyrical and musical motifs that you'll discover listen after listen. I'd also suggest the 'Somewhere In Time' trilogy, three songs from their P2 album.
No bass player
Is there much need for one in Djent style bands these days? People rocking 8 strings, and classic rhythm guitar is basically non-existent anyway. I’m not sure how much a bass player would find to contribute.
At this time I will also say that I 100% appreciate bass players and in most cases feel like they may be one of the more important instruments in rock. But in this particular niche may not be necessary.
In fact what may be a cool idea is for an awesome bass player to learn to play an 8 string guitar and apply bass knowledge and style to a band like this.
@@PrymalChaos they do have bass tracks in their music. They used to have a bass player, but he quit to do production. They couldn’t ever find someone that they liked to replace him.
@@jase88rose oh thats right! I have been told this before. That’s the danger of discovering so much new music in a short period of time. 🤣
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.
Good tip!
That's pure nonsense. Satellites isn't even their best ballad, Lune is. And satellites isn't even the best song on p4, Reptile is
Most periphery fans agree on the best songs. Reptile, RACECAR, and stranger things