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Periphery by Johnny price
Periphery has always been a very ambitious band climbing its way to the forefront of the progressive music
scene since their self-titled debut album was released in 2010. Along their journey, they have continued to
push the musical envelope all while amassing an incredibly devout and loyal fan base. The progressive music
genre is sometimes attacked by the critics who say that is lacks spirit and emotion. I think the band is going
to have a lot of those critics re-evaluating their words after they hear what the band is unleashing. They’re
set to release their most aspiring project to date; a double concept album entitled Juggernaut: Alpha and
Juggernaut: Omega.
It’s a bold move in an industry where the attention span of the average listener keeps shrinking, all while a lot
of bands continue to be more singles geared than creating an entire piece of art from the first track to the last.
Periphery doesn’t just push the envelope of this new creative venture, but they redefine it in a creative and
refreshing way. They take their musical canvas and paint it with so many colors from their pallet that they
haven’t touched before. I sat down with Periphery guitarist Mark Holcomb recently and we talked about the
new double album.
Hey Mark! How are you doing today for about six songs and we played them I think it was more the latter aspect
man? instrumentally. because we didn’t go into it with
Mark Holcomb: I’m doing great! I’m the expectation to have a double
sitting here getting some coffee. I know how much I hate getting strep
album. We ended up having over 80
throat and I’m not a singer, so that must minutes of material and you can’t
Yeah, I see you guys have a show tonight. be incredibly grueling and frustrating for put more than 72 or 73 minutes on
What an awesome tour package you guys him. He can’t just tune his instrument
have. How’s the tour been so far? up or down like a guitar or bass if it’s not a disc, so logistically, it wasn’t going
We’re about a week into it, so it’s still sounding right. to happen as a single album. There
a pretty young tour for us, but it’s The same thing with Matt (Halpern); was a natural stylistic divide with the
going really well so far. We’ve had the our drummer had a problem with his two albums that made sense for us to
challenge of adjusting to playing a lot hand’s and the third show of the tour split the album into two because of
of new songs on this tour. We’re playing was really tough. Yeah, both of those the different shades of styles between
six songs from the two Juggernaut guys, when it comes to issues with the the two.
albums We’re really excited to play it hands or the throat, they’re kind of
and we really want people to hear it, so screwed.
we spent a lot of time before the tour
learning those new songs. We’ve had a I’m glad to hear that they’re feeling
little bit of a problem with the health of better now. Let’s talk about the new
our singer Spencer (Sotelo); he’s been album that you guys are releasing.
fighting off strep throat. He’s been
Did you have any idea going into
somehow able to sing some portion of it that it was going to be a double
the set, but the worse was a couple of album or was the creative process so
nights back where he had to bail out
productive that it grew into a double?
Periphery has always been a very ambitious band climbing its way to the forefront of the progressive music
scene since their self-titled debut album was released in 2010. Along their journey, they have continued to
push the musical envelope all while amassing an incredibly devout and loyal fan base. The progressive music
genre is sometimes attacked by the critics who say that is lacks spirit and emotion. I think the band is going
to have a lot of those critics re-evaluating their words after they hear what the band is unleashing. They’re
set to release their most aspiring project to date; a double concept album entitled Juggernaut: Alpha and
Juggernaut: Omega.
It’s a bold move in an industry where the attention span of the average listener keeps shrinking, all while a lot
of bands continue to be more singles geared than creating an entire piece of art from the first track to the last.
Periphery doesn’t just push the envelope of this new creative venture, but they redefine it in a creative and
refreshing way. They take their musical canvas and paint it with so many colors from their pallet that they
haven’t touched before. I sat down with Periphery guitarist Mark Holcomb recently and we talked about the
new double album.
Hey Mark! How are you doing today for about six songs and we played them I think it was more the latter aspect
man? instrumentally. because we didn’t go into it with
Mark Holcomb: I’m doing great! I’m the expectation to have a double
sitting here getting some coffee. I know how much I hate getting strep
album. We ended up having over 80
throat and I’m not a singer, so that must minutes of material and you can’t
Yeah, I see you guys have a show tonight. be incredibly grueling and frustrating for put more than 72 or 73 minutes on
What an awesome tour package you guys him. He can’t just tune his instrument
have. How’s the tour been so far? up or down like a guitar or bass if it’s not a disc, so logistically, it wasn’t going
We’re about a week into it, so it’s still sounding right. to happen as a single album. There
a pretty young tour for us, but it’s The same thing with Matt (Halpern); was a natural stylistic divide with the
going really well so far. We’ve had the our drummer had a problem with his two albums that made sense for us to
challenge of adjusting to playing a lot hand’s and the third show of the tour split the album into two because of
of new songs on this tour. We’re playing was really tough. Yeah, both of those the different shades of styles between
six songs from the two Juggernaut guys, when it comes to issues with the the two.
albums We’re really excited to play it hands or the throat, they’re kind of
and we really want people to hear it, so screwed.
we spent a lot of time before the tour
learning those new songs. We’ve had a I’m glad to hear that they’re feeling
little bit of a problem with the health of better now. Let’s talk about the new
our singer Spencer (Sotelo); he’s been album that you guys are releasing.
fighting off strep throat. He’s been
Did you have any idea going into
somehow able to sing some portion of it that it was going to be a double
the set, but the worse was a couple of album or was the creative process so
nights back where he had to bail out
productive that it grew into a double?
