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| 3.5 great | Nine | January 3rd 23 |
"I can't wait for Periphery V: The Djent Strikes Back" - Me, 4 years ago via soundoff.
Eh, I'll take it.
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| 3.0 good | pizzamachine | December 22nd 22 |
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| 2.5 average | terriblekonrad | March 6th 23 |
Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Gay or maybe it is?
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| 4.0 excellent | samrparker12 | January 3rd 23 |
Saving this for when it comes out so I don't have to come back. Plus it deserves a 4 just for the title tbh
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| 0.0 | gravityswitch | December 22nd 22 |
They really have something with album titles huh
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| 2.2 poor | Erwann S. STAFF | July 20th 23 |
As usual, can't get past the shitty clean vox, the constant chuggy chug chug, and the shift between cheesy boys band song ("Silhouette") and faux hevvyyy shit (the chug chug).
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| 2.5 average | LikeWindOnANipple | July 10th 23 |
Kinda samey. The parts that aren't samey are random breaks. Song structure is only vaguely relevant. Periphery is one of those bands where I could complain to the point where it sounds like I'm talking shit, but those complaints are inherent in the strengths of their identity, so there isn't any real point in complaining. I'm not going to get subtlety, or tasteful ambience / dynamic interplay, or meaningful / significant song progressions, or any experimentation that doesn't have some level of safety to it already established in its genre, but that's okay, because Periphery has been doing this long enough for me to not have to critically analyze my expectations. Still, not bad. They can djent. They can sort of do pop. It works. It's just a lot of the same.
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| 1.5 very poor | chalkecheese | March 29th 23 |
Hearing where they pushed their sound with Periphery IV after stagnating a bit in Periphery III made me hopeful that they'd continue to do new things in this medium with this one. Admittedly they did do new things here, but they're god awful synth-pop things that they do NOT pull off (Silhouette and Dying Star) and feel almost like a pastiche of all the things I've grown to dislike about this genre: shoehorned, thoughtless sax solos (Wildfire), songs reaching up towards ten minutes not justifying their lengths (Dacul Gras, Zagreus), and just a general lack of atmosphere or depth in most of the songs. Spencer's voice was never a problem for me, but it was such a negative presence on this album. He has a such an obvious lack of nuance in his vocals (the over-compressed mixing on them doesn't help) that really makes the soft sections fall flat for me. Maybe I'll give it another shot in a few months, but it feels like they ran out of ideas this time around.
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| 0.0 | SaiseiTunes CONTRIBUTOR | January 14th 23 |
Cautious 4.0 based on the first 2 singles dropped. If the rest of the album is as good as these songs, I'll be a happy metalhead
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| 0.0 | Mitch | April 14th 23 |
Why do djent riffs always sound like farts from a robot's ass?
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| 4.0 excellent | ajcollins15 | March 15th 23 |
It is kind of funny how on the most recent Haken release ?Fauna? I went into how this brand of progressive metal might be starting to get stale with me. However, this new Periphery album might have completely taken that point away because the long-standing Djent band continues to push out explosive and memorizing progressive metalcore with that heavy and meme-filled djent style guitars. Honestly, if it wasn?t for the weird cooldown track in ?Silhouette?, this would easily be a higher score. I am also glad to see the band pulling a little from what made their very early records such a highlight for me with more focus on melodic guitars than just the brutality they have been working with. ?Periphery V? might not be the most groundbreaking record for the genre and even for the band, but it continues to show how consistent this band is year after year.
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| 3.3 great | Trey STAFF | March 13th 23 |
It's Periphery doing what Periphery does. The meat of just about every song is awesome, but everything overstays its welcome. Also, Silhouette, Dying Star, and Thanks Nobuo could have been left off the album completely because they're pretty damn boring. It would have helped with album pacing and length.
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| 2.5 average | altmjw | March 10th 23 |
Yea, Periphery are arguably more skilled than most of their peers (including vocalist Sotelo), but technical proficiency alone doesn?t write good songs. They have to know by now that songs like Silhouette are not good in any sense. Despite this, there are smaller than a handful of decent songs here.
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| 4.0 excellent | ShadowOfTheCitadel | March 10th 23 |
Only songs I didn't like were Silhouette and Thanks Nobuo. Everything else? Pretty damn cool.
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| 0.0 | DType | January 15th 23 |
Based album title
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| 2.5 average | migueldemolina | January 9th 23 |
With periphery boys the dumber the name the better the album will sound
Also why the fuck is there a giant faze clan logo on the cover?
All things considered looks like an automatic 5 bois gottem
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| 4.0 excellent | daolso | May 9th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Risodo | January 3rd 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Lani | December 23rd 23 |
| 1.5 very poor | Verdr | November 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | MrFemil | September 25th 23 |
| 3.0 good | JTPlays | September 16th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | tf1511 | August 15th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | August 6th 23 |
| 2.5 average | s0nicx | July 10th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | ARDCWE | July 10th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodstar | July 10th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Ben STAFF | June 12th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Glovoc | April 12th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Arwuns | April 6th 23 |
| 3.0 good | YRI | April 4th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | tellah | March 31st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | UrukHai | March 28th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Blaidd | March 26th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Groink | March 25th 23 |
| 1.5 very poor | Elynna | March 24th 23 |
| 3.5 great | em17ah | March 21st 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Vlexis | March 21st 23 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | March 20th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Fowo | March 20th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Djang0 | March 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | pboitel | March 18th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | samsar | March 17th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | jaysus0 | March 17th 23 |
| 3.0 good | furpa | March 17th 23 |
| 3.0 good | JoneHK | March 16th 23 |
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| 4.5 superb | Minus. | March 14th 23 |
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| 1.5 very poor | Wzzzard | March 12th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | TanMan | March 12th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | cendor | March 12th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thor | March 12th 23 |
| 3.0 good | SYL | March 11th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | March 11th 23 |
| 1.5 very poor | Ludens | March 11th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | tcarafi | March 11th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | ariich | March 11th 23 |
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| 4.5 superb | niglas | March 11th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | bonn1e | March 11th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Girin | March 11th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | kneepel | March 11th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Sowing STAFF | March 11th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Darrrk0 | March 10th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Emim | March 10th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Halez | March 10th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Teal | March 10th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | mackee | March 10th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Zakusz | March 10th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | KManoc1 | March 10th 23 |
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| 3.0 good | Shwany | March 10th 23 |
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| 3.5 great | Jeejee | March 10th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | nbats | March 10th 23 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | March 10th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Durrzo | March 10th 23 |
| 3.5 great | PFKlax | March 10th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Suyan | March 9th 23 |
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