Reviewing/revisiting Periphery's full discography in no-particular-but-kinda-chronological order, Chapter 7:
Revisiting Periphery 4
Before I started this review series, I actually already did a review for this one. And it was... not good. While it was very positive (this IS one of my favorite albums of all time), it was so in a reluctant and self-deprecating way that clearly showed how ashamed I was of my love for this type of metal. I was constantly thinking about how much the music ... read more
Genuinely amazing lyricism and solid production cannot really prevent me from being slightly bored by the more pop punk-esque tracks in the earlier half. The opener does a great job of portraying the hopelessness of the current state of the world, but most of the more introspective, melancholic tracks don't really do it for me, they just sound kinda generically melodramatic. Slaughterhouse is amazing though, incredibly heavy with really hype lyrics that make you want to go punch a ... read more
Grand in scale, relentless in its brutality and consistent to a fault. If you like your metalcore with a sprinkle of headbanging guitar solos, you'll be eating good with this one.
Metal Forth does a horrible job at actually being an album because this is just a bunch of collab singles glued together by a whopping three featureless songs, with no concept and very apparent broad appeal to give pretty much any person with any interest in any part of modern metal culture a reason to check it out.
I'm kinda past caring about shit like that though, these are just a bunch of banger songs. Alex Terrible is here, SOMEHOW, an that really fucking sucks and I wish he would stay ... read more