Periphery

Meshuggah have added Europe to the 40-year anomaly.

20 dates September 29th to October 30th of next year with Periphery and Vilharda opening.

And it ends at the Ovo Arena Wembley in London.

In between Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Padova, Lyon, Madrid, Lisbon, Paris, Dublin, Manchester, then Wembley.

Same five guys for most of that time.

I mean, look at who's opening.

Periphery exists because of Meshuggah.

Vildharta exists because of Meshuggah.

Shout out to Matt Halpern.

Yeah, Matt and Misha from Periphery.

It's their company and I've been using their stuff for years and I take some of their loops and then I manipulate them.

So I started with this.

I got some for you.

Yeah, again, in no particular order, but I guess the first one from the list I would do Periphery 4.

Hate it.

Hail Stan.

Hail Stan.

Is that the band? Hail Stan.

No. Periphery is the band.

Hail Stan was the album, but it was like Periphery 4, you know, whatever.

all the time and that's not really my songwriting style, but it is what's inspired a lot of my vocal choices and vocal deliveries, just being really extreme with the vocal delivery.

So very inspired by like bands like Periphery and Veil of Maya and Whitechapel and Corellia is one of my biggest, that band is like all over the place vocally and that's really what I love.

I appreciate you mentioning that.

You mentioned periphery.

At that time I was really into my progressive music and I loved anything with crazy time signatures and grooves and anything that was sort of uneven and asymmetrical.

yeah um so my sugar appealed to me to kind of bring it back you know it was it was technical and i could appreciate it um and it was obviously very creative and ahead of its time so those were a couple bands that i remember in a few bands that i remember as far as early on that was like okay this is this is something that i would like to to do i mean What followed Meshuggah was like, you know, a phase of listening to Periphery as well and Animals as Leaders and, you know, bands like that, which are also bands that I connected with when I first met the Wind Waker guys years later.

It's amazing.

I always get fascinated when it comes to vocalists, the idea of the realisation that you can do it.

It's the second album with the current lineup, that being John Henry, Mike, Aaron Deal on bass, who was also in Salome or Salome.

Travis Orbit on drums, who is a former member of Periphery, and Nico Santora on lead guitar, who's been a live musician for In Full Darkness, Suicidal Tendencies, Fallujah, The Faceless, so on and so forth.

Production was handled by Mark Lewis, whom I sold an amp to one time.

Hey.

Based on your description, I kind of went to Meshuggah.

Are they kind of in that vein? So I would say they took what Meshuggah did and Periphery and all those bands and they kind of merged them all together.

And they said, how crazy can we make this sound by transposing all that? You know, I don't know.

But but they're fantastic.

She's a huge Avril fan.

Man, she had some choice words to say about that.

But the big one is there's a new Periphery album that

dropped.