Periphery - Clear

Published January 30 2014

*=Staff's pick	Overture The Summer Jam* Feed The Ground Zero The Parade Of Ashes Extraneous Pale Aura*

Genre	Progressive Metal	Spencer Sotelo	Vocals
Tracks	7	Misha Mansoor	Guitar
Running time	30 Min.	Jake Bowen	Guitar
Label	Century Media	Mark Holcomb	Guitar
Release	27 January 2014	Adam "Nolly" Getgood	Bass
Country	USA	Matt Halpern	Drums
Producer	---		Keyboard
Similar artists	---

Clear is created as an experimental experience where all six members have contributed to songwriting with one song each, mind not the intro, Overture. This EP is my first significant relation with the American progressive metallers and I decidedly like what I hear during the major share of this half hour feature.

Periphery has the ability to combine rather progressive plays and rapid rhythms with things pretty catchy and that lifts this effort to a higher state at most of its positions. It's melodic, yet a little complex with three guitars included. They triumph when they are able to weave beautiful melodies into the kind of jerky and pivotal appearance that this type of music implicates. The album's last track, Pale Aura, shows the way to connect vital vocal lines to cool, standout guitar playing to release an inevitable impact.

On a few occasions the band gathers most of its progressive elements and those impulses sort of take the distinct and ongoing flow off this EP, resulting in various slight dips when I look at it through the entire perspective. The instrumental tracks, Zero and Extraneous, are perfect examples to this assertion and if this outfit seeks a more successful future career, I would suggest a more modest approach to this typical seesaw principle. Surely these are not poor songs in any way and both include appealing plays, but they hardly attract a larger audience.

All four songs with vocals definitely decide what Periphery is capable of in terms of producing extraordinary, substantial and hard hitting songs based and maintained on progressive existence. This deal is a vigorous effort, strong enough to make me check out the band's past work when given the opportunity to do so.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	6	7	7	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Tobbe