Things get started with “A Black Minute”, a slow building introduction to the maelstrom. Nevertheless, I’m not here to talk trash, and the remaining 16 songs all bring great attributes to the table. Unless you want to hear them sound like their impersonating an emo/alt rock band, I’d suggest skipping it. In fact, I only found one song to be absolutely dreadful, Alpha’s third track “Heavy Heart”. I found the same response from this release yet it led to finding a great mix of the styles from both prior albums, as well as some areas that they had left previously uncharted. The changes were so drastic that it took multiple listens for that batch of songs to grow on me. However, this is not exactly new territory for the group. Then why the convoluted response? I speak in riddle due to the vast density of the material and how much it differs from their previous releases, which may confuse or alienate some listeners. The overwhelming majority of Juggernaut is amazing. I don’t mean that to say the record is bad. Omega turns many of the ideas from its predecessor into a concept, with a story being told over the span of the latter seven tracks.īut enough with the background details and on to the question that’s burning a hole in everyone’s mind: is the album that PERIPHERY fans have waited almost 4 years for any good? Well. Alpha is a standard collection of ten individual songs. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “This is only two more than their last effort, why not just release them on one disc?” Glad you asked. However, what’s left is usually mindless drivel that would have been better suited as B-sides.īut the sextet of djent-lemen took the twin-release notion a different way. But, alas, a new, collaborative effort has graced us in the form of a double record, titled Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega, respectively. Typically, when a group releases a double record, it ends up being 24-30 tracks, with maybe one record worth of decent material, if we’re lucky. If you’re like me, you found the concept to be so much greater than its end product. Another concept, the record was an experiment, allowing each member to use a common melody as the foundation for an individual song. Not one to keep their fans waiting too long for new music, the group did release 2014’s Clear as an attempt to tide their fans over. And yet, like the 2008 GUNS N’ ROSES release, the official details of the fabled concept record only served to push back its release. Any longtime fans of the group will recall hearing internet buzz about the record since prior to the group’s second full-length. And not since Chinese Democracy have I seen an album so highly anticipated, so heavily rumored prior to its completion. Peripherals rejoice! The Juggernaut has finally arrived! PERIPHERY’S long-awaited third album hits the stores January 27 through Sumerian Records.
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