Definitely not an EP, Periphery III: Select Difficulty clocks in at more than an hour. Unlike the extended intros of past records, this time around the band gets right down to business with “The Price ...

Washington, D.C.-based prog-metal outfit Periphery have packed a lot of playing into their 15-year existence. The complexity of their musicianship and their writing skills aren’t for the casual ...

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In the spring of 2010, an explosion of chuggy riffs, subsonic booms and futuristic metal sounds carved a corner for itself in metal. It was called djent, so named because of the djent-djent sounds of ...