Bulb to release 10 albums

2020-06-04 by owmysnauze | 24 Comments
Bulb aka Periphery’s guitarist Misha Mansoor has announced he will be releasing 10 solo albums worth of material. The material stemming from Periphery demos, ideas, and material that have not made it onto Periphery albums. Misha explains that he’s been wanting to revisit the Bulb material for some time below:

“Diving back into the Bulb archives is something that I’ve wanted to do for years. As I began working on what will be a new Bulb album I was reminded of this vast library of unreleased music, music that has only been previously available by seeking out bits and pieces on various forums and media channels. Presenting it in a context that both echoes my original intent with the songs grouped from the time period they were recorded in as well as making it easier for fans to find and enjoy was the driving motivation behind completing this massive undertaking.”

The first album in the 108-song, digitally released collection is titled Archives: Volume 8 and arrives on June 12 via 3DOT Recordings, the label Periphery owns and runs themselves. The albums are being released bi-weekly with the most recent of the Bulb archival material arriving first and subsequent releases leading back to the origin of the project with Archives: Volume 1.

The release schedule for the Bulb archival recordings:

Archives: Volume 8 June 12
Archives: Volume 7 June 26
Archives: Volume 6 July 10
Archives: Volume 5 July 24
Orchestral August 7
Archives: Volume 4 August 21
Archives: Volume 3 September 4
Archives: Volume 2 September 18
Archives: Volume 1 October 2
Electronic October 16

https://www.3dotrecordings.com/news/2020/6/3/bulb-the-archives-coming-soon

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oltnabrick
June 4th 2020
40980 Comments


he can keep it tbh

Deez
June 4th 2020
10597 Comments


Bulb hahah

SitarHero
June 4th 2020
14825 Comments


Dang... :o

someone
June 4th 2020
7254 Comments


well there's a thing destined to get a listen from collectively about 10 people

JohnnyoftheWell
June 4th 2020
64287 Comments


wet dream for periphery fans and such a huge content dump that haters can't get their claws into it

nicely played tbh

gordodustin
June 4th 2020
573 Comments


I'm definitely excited to check this out. Anyone who's been bitching for 10 years about Periphery being better without the vocals should be stoked for it.

BeyondCosby
June 4th 2020
2781 Comments


If you haven't checked out the Bulb demos in the past and you loved P:1 you'll like this more than you think.

SitarHero
June 5th 2020
14825 Comments


Considering that there's ten albums worth of songs I imagine there's gonna be a lot of demos that eventually turned into Periphery songs. But I hope there are more of his more chill ambient songs that didn't make it onto Periphery albums too.

Eons
June 5th 2020
3778 Comments


this band and him in particular really seem like someone from this website or other forums decided to start a band like he isn't separate at all from the internet its weird a lot of musicians really are separate from all this but this guy seems like hed actually come here and comment. strange.

i dont really like the band tho

OwMySnauze
June 5th 2020
2665 Comments


@Eons Bulb was an active user on this site once upon a time.

Hearing all these demos will be awesome. And yes, I’m a P1 fan.

SitarHero
June 5th 2020
14825 Comments


He wasn't an active user per se, but he had an account and used to chime in every once in a while when P1 and P2 were released. But that's pretty much how he built his brand. He was active on sevenstring.org and Dream Theater forums back in the day and befriended all the prog and djent kids who spread the gospel of Bulb and Periphery for him. He's the poster child for leveraging an online presence into relevance.

secondsun
June 5th 2020
55 Comments


I wonder if any of these will include the Of Man Not of Machine stuff he did with Elliott from Good Tiger like ten years ago. Metal Gear is just too good of a song to only exist in low quality youtube rips.

At least Breeze will definitely be on here

wildinferno2010
June 5th 2020
1947 Comments


I liked the instrumental version of P1. Might be interesting if this is more stuff like that

Tundra
June 5th 2020
10734 Comments


dream come true

Tundra
June 5th 2020
10734 Comments


https://gyazo.com/b4d739b7785a2c379490c4a5142ea3ba still a hilarious album art, but the new minimalist artworks are dope too

butt.
June 5th 2020
11427 Comments


this is gonna be so fuckin dooooooooope

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
June 5th 2020
21027 Comments


I assume this is the same material that's been available online for anyone to listen to for the past decade; 100+ Bulb songs were on some website like Soundcloud from Misha's personal account. A lot of it was pretty sweet I remember so this should be good. Basically lots of instrumental, early-era Periphery and AAL sounding stuff as one would expect.

GhostB1rd
June 6th 2020
7938 Comments


Probably gonna be the best stuff they've released since P1.

Scoot
June 6th 2020
24121 Comments


the bulb demos were cool

BeyondCosby
June 6th 2020
2781 Comments


"But I hope there are more of his more chill ambient songs that didn't make it onto Periphery albums too."

You're going to be disappointed.

OwMySnauze
June 6th 2020
2665 Comments


@beyond how so? He’s releasing an electronic album in October which will probably have all that ambient stuff he’s done

Pikazilla
June 6th 2020
32373 Comments


he can keep it tbh [2]

OwMySnauze
June 8th 2020
2665 Comments


https://youtu.be/GECmvNOftnk

A small Q&A he just uploaded about the project. Awesome sample clips heard of new electronic/ambient stuff in the background.

OwMySnauze
September 19th 2020
2665 Comments


8 albums released... 3 more to go!



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