Album Rating: 5.0

I think I may have Sunbather 5'd; but i am a pleb when it comes to black metal so it doesnt take much to blow me away probably

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Well apparently it doesn't take much to 'blow you away' about prog too



My god the lyrics are AWFUL. I'm following with the booklet but I'd rather read Twilight, who the f**k cares

if there's a concept behind when they're so badly written.. "turn the sad song up on the radio"?

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TURN THE SAD SONG UP ON THE REH- REH- REHDEEEOOH





hits me right in the feels

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oh guys.. Do you get emotional also with memphis may fire?

Album Rating: 5.0

A quick glance at our tastes show we like mainly the same things, so don't be so quick to be a judgemental tool about music on the internet

Album Rating: 5.0

Memphis May Fire is a band who has all of the things they theoretically need to be great, and then they just aren't. They're the exact opposite of great. I had to sit through a headlining show they had when Yellowcard decided to co-headline with them and ah, ew, ewww

Album Rating: 3.0

I like some MMF, fite me



Periphery doesn't even want to reveal their fucking album concept yet, I'm suspicious there isn't one.



BULB IS FUCKING WITH US

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haha, the lyrics are out. It's about a kid who was born into a family who's part of this cult, and when he's

born they seal some sort of demon inside of him. I haven't fully listened to Omega while reading yet, but

the story is basically about how he deals with it. Like a lot of concept albums it's a little hard to

interpret everything right off the bat

Album Rating: 3.0

well......that really wasn't what I expected



I don't think concept albums are really for Periphery

concept albums arent supposed to be light reading

i.e Crack the Skye is about a paraplegic in Tsarist Russia undergoing astral projection, who then gets sucked into a wormhole, who's soul is then placed into Rasputin's, who dies, releasing the soul in two parts, which are then stolen by the Devil

sooo

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I still couldn't give you an non-summary idea of what Parallax I and II are about lol

best answer is just ~space, bro~~

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There's no need to listen 20 times to a disc to aknowledge the lyrics are bad

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the lyrics arent great but so what. the music itself is spot on. and aside from a couple verses the lyrics are mostly forgettable

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It's a concept and every positive review reiterates that vocal delivery play an important part in how the songs are written so hell yeah! Lyrics- are - important.



And music is arguably 'spot on'. The Scourge is a mess, structurally. There are so many riffs and breaks that are taken from Meshuggah or half of the djent scene that 5 years after P I it's probably not fun anymore. I feel the 'fatigue' of hearing the same s**t all over again and the best bands in the scene have objectively moved 'forward' -> e.g. Tesseract, Monuments, Skyharbor have been less djent-y in their sophomores, while in both Alpha & Omega I heard at least, at least 6 riffs that I've already heard done by some other band in the past 5 years.

naw

lmfao if youre accusing periphery aka the very frontrunners of the modern prog movement to be plagiarizing riffs, id love love love to see proof

Album Rating: 5.0

If only 6 of your riffs an album sound like anything else ever composed I'd say you're doing a pretty good job



Objectively moved foward? What determines that?



I don't see how structurely the scorage is a mess. Its not a conventional verse/verse song no, but it has an intro, buildup, slight release, heavier parts and then a climax. the whole thing does a good job at building tension

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Dbp

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So what if they are the frontrunners? Are we forced to wank on Dream Theater in 2015 because they made up

90s prog metal or we're free to criticise their stuff?



I didn't say they 'copied' riffs, don't put into my mouth words I haven't said.. I said 'I've already heard

this stuff', that dejavu feeling I'd rather avoid listening on supposedly 'frontrunners' of a scene. For me

this is quite stale, there is no progression and the songwriting is hit & miss. I tend to like some stuff on

both here and Omega but if they had been made by a new band I'd have just ignored them.