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Periphery
We didn’t want a three month buffer period
Throughout the years, quite a few concept albums have
gone on to become movies. Could you see Juggernaut between releasing the albums separately;
on the big screen one day?
We’ve actually talked about that from the very we wanted it to be digested all at once.
beginning. If we were going to do a concept album,
we wanted it to go full force and be very detailed.
We’ve talked about doing a comic book, we’ve talked
about doing a full on graphic novel, but we haven’t
talked about a feature film. That process, to me, is
a conversation that I would like to have if people
receive it well. I want to see what Juggernaut’s legacy
is, but first of all, let’s see if people like. It could come
out and it could tank and people could say it’s our
worst album ever and then we’ll never do another
concept album again. We’ll see what happens, but I
would definitely not be opposed to something along
the lines of a film. I think it’s a major endeavor to put out a double album with
the way the market is today, so I commend you guys for
You mentioned the twelve minute track “Omega” having the balls to do it.
earlier and I wanted to ask you about that one. For Thanks man, I really appreciate that. You know, all we
me, that transitions back to bands like RUSH and wanted to do was stir the pot because we’re not in this
to sell records. We were advised by our label and other
Yes because you don’t see too many band’s who will powers that be not to do this. The last time a band put
attempt to do a twelve minute song and pull it off like out two records on the same day was when Guns and
you guys did. I mean, that song is freaking epic! Can Roses did it. Now, they did sell a ton of records, but that
you give us a little in-sight to how it came about? was thirty years ago. We’re not in this to chart or sell
I wrote the majority of that one and we had the a ton of records. We just want to stir that pot and get
second half of it way before we had the first half. people talking.
Misha and I wrote the second half of it three years
ago just after we released Periphery 2; we didn’t even
mean for it to be a Periphery song. I had a bunch of
thrashy riffs lying around and we layed them down
at his home studio and it was really awesome. We
decided to use it on our project Haunted Shores and
we let it sit around for a while. A couple of weeks
later, we recorded the first half of the song. All of
a sudden, we had this idea for this twelve minute
song and I’ll be honest, most of the band members
didn’t like it at first. It’s hard to put out a twelve
minute song and have it be cohesive and keep your
attention. Spencer ended up adding some really
cool lyrical things and melodic things to it. Once
we started to sharpen up some of the aspects of the
song, it became this super cool thing that we’re all
really proud of. I would have to say that’s one of the
songs that I’m most proud of, if not the one song
that I am most proud of on the album.
We didn’t want a three month buffer period
Throughout the years, quite a few concept albums have
gone on to become movies. Could you see Juggernaut between releasing the albums separately;
on the big screen one day?
We’ve actually talked about that from the very we wanted it to be digested all at once.
beginning. If we were going to do a concept album,
we wanted it to go full force and be very detailed.
We’ve talked about doing a comic book, we’ve talked
about doing a full on graphic novel, but we haven’t
talked about a feature film. That process, to me, is
a conversation that I would like to have if people
receive it well. I want to see what Juggernaut’s legacy
is, but first of all, let’s see if people like. It could come
out and it could tank and people could say it’s our
worst album ever and then we’ll never do another
concept album again. We’ll see what happens, but I
would definitely not be opposed to something along
the lines of a film. I think it’s a major endeavor to put out a double album with
the way the market is today, so I commend you guys for
You mentioned the twelve minute track “Omega” having the balls to do it.
earlier and I wanted to ask you about that one. For Thanks man, I really appreciate that. You know, all we
me, that transitions back to bands like RUSH and wanted to do was stir the pot because we’re not in this
to sell records. We were advised by our label and other
Yes because you don’t see too many band’s who will powers that be not to do this. The last time a band put
attempt to do a twelve minute song and pull it off like out two records on the same day was when Guns and
you guys did. I mean, that song is freaking epic! Can Roses did it. Now, they did sell a ton of records, but that
you give us a little in-sight to how it came about? was thirty years ago. We’re not in this to chart or sell
I wrote the majority of that one and we had the a ton of records. We just want to stir that pot and get
second half of it way before we had the first half. people talking.
Misha and I wrote the second half of it three years
ago just after we released Periphery 2; we didn’t even
mean for it to be a Periphery song. I had a bunch of
thrashy riffs lying around and we layed them down
at his home studio and it was really awesome. We
decided to use it on our project Haunted Shores and
we let it sit around for a while. A couple of weeks
later, we recorded the first half of the song. All of
a sudden, we had this idea for this twelve minute
song and I’ll be honest, most of the band members
didn’t like it at first. It’s hard to put out a twelve
minute song and have it be cohesive and keep your
attention. Spencer ended up adding some really
cool lyrical things and melodic things to it. Once
we started to sharpen up some of the aspects of the
song, it became this super cool thing that we’re all
really proud of. I would have to say that’s one of the
songs that I’m most proud of, if not the one song
that I am most proud of on the album.
