 
Periphery are currently hard at work on their
third studio album but have also managed to find
time to create a new 7 track EP which runs for
the best part of 30minutes and the EP is a progressive
experiment for the band where each member of the
band have controlled their own track and in places
have gone downs routes that the band have never
gone down before whilst also keeping true to themselves
with the triple guitar assault and a big mix of
heavy meets melodic.
The EP opens with ‘Overture’ a track
which acts as a theatrical opening, the track
is lead by a solid piano piece which gives off
the impression that a blockbuster movie is about
to start but instead Periphery blast straight
into the super melodic ‘The Summer Jam’,
a song which really shows off the impressive instrumental
capabilities of the band as well as the clear
cut vocals of Spencer Sotelo and aggressive backing
screams from the rest of the band.
‘Feed The Ground’ follows on nicely
from ‘The Summer Jam’ and progresses
into a 5minute running catchy as hell track with
big chugging guitar riffs, nu metal screams and
general sounds of excellence gracing the airwaves
for the majority of the song.
‘Zero’ and ‘Extraneous’
see Periphery let their instrumental work do the
talking as both tracks are full on instrumental
numbers and they really do show off the progressive
nature of the band as they happily jam out for
a long time with the massive variation of instrumental
styles giving ‘Extraneous’ the edge
over ‘Zero’.
The best track has Clearly been left until the
end as ‘Pale Aura’ is such a mixed
song opening full of aggression with big screams
and chunky guitar riffs and then within seconds
there is a big turnaround as the song goes all
melodic and anthemic on you before another piano
piece comes in to close the album in such a soft
way.
‘Clear’ is a stop gap release for
Periphery as they give their fans some new songs
to listen to whilst they work on their next album
and it see’s the band throw pretty much
everything into the mix and come up with a big
diverse sounding solid EP which is going to please
fans of the band whilst also having the potential
to grab the attention of first time listeners.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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