Remember when this album came out. When Sumerian records was the sh*t. Periphery brought so much to the table with this album and changed the game. Great pick.

"Stranger Things" is another song that you should check out by Periphery. Very melodic song with some surprisingly heavy moments.

Heads up: this song has a second version, that is maybe 30s longer, where Spencer Sotelo really cranks up those high notes. Great review, nonetheless.

This was actually on their very first album which was recorded in a tiny Washington DC apartment on a gaming PC. Drums were played on an electronic set. And these dudes were only ~26 years old. The entire album - every instrument - was pretty much completely written, recorded, engineered, and mixed by Misha. He even played bass for this album I believe. And it was written as all instrumental tracks. Their singer Spencer had to write and sing vocal lines over all this complex crazy music, and for some tracks sing stuff that wasn't written by him and not in his vocal range (Shocking that there is anything outside his range) since they changed vocalists a couple of times before this album. Even with having such a chaotic and low-budget production process they still managed to make such fuckin awesome music and completely change the game in the genre of prog metal at such a young age. These guys are outta this world. They have the #1 spot in my soundtrack of life, being my favorite band all throughout my 20s. Also you mentioned wishing you were a fly on the wall for their recording process. I highly recommend watching their documentaries they made about their entire writing/recording processes for their last couple of albums, I think they're free on KZfaq. One is called Remain Indoors, the other is Juggerdoc. Can't remember if they did another one for their newest album. Also they did short little "in the studio" video updates for their first couple albums; also on KZfaq. If I could make a suggestion, check out Sattellites or Ragnarok. Probably my favorite songs by them if I was forced to pick.

You would really like ERRA, if you haven’t listened to them already.

Its so cool to see you discover one of their oldest bangers. This song was so powerul and the album so influential at the time. It helped solidify a sound and feeling of heaviness with this floating dream like atmosphere.

I’m still here bud. And it’s been an absolute pleasure watching you go through a Periphery journey. Just like you said, this song is a sandwich along with many of their other tracks. They consistently do a pretty great job of connecting their tracks together especially on their first two albums. 👍🏼👍🏼 Best of luck with your surgery ! 🤙🏽

Periphery come off as some of the most humble dudes ever. Always see one of them commenting on reaction videos

Everyone tends to love Periphery's later stuff, but the 15-minute song off their first album, "Racecar," is a really interesting ride with cool harmonic choices and a lot of dynamics between the different sections.

I'd love to see you react to C'est la Vie by Protest the Hero. That song slaps

Amazing. Love periphery. Been pushing them all year 😅 P5 in the works!! “Stranger Things” or “Heavy Heart” next please!! Love ya Geebz!! 🙌🙌

Really says something when the second a song starts, you can remember exactly where you were when you heard it the first time. This band has been such a wonderful addition to my musical life, I bought this album on release day and have loved each release more and more.

This song, Icarus Lives, and Make Total Destroy were the songs that introduced me to Periphery back in 2012/2013 or so. They have been one of my absolute favorite bands ever since.

Need more TesseracT

Still probably one of my favorite songs of all time. Cried when I saw it live for the first time in 2013, still makes me feel emotional to this day. Thank you for allowing us to travel along with you on this journey, Geebz.

Yes! This album and Periphery 2 are amazing!

Just came around to say "I'm still here!". Great stuff, as always, awwright!

So glad to hear you're passionate about Periphery and I hope you cover them lots more in the future as they are one of my all time favorites! Thanks for all you've done this past year, Geebz! Love the videos!

Spencer was so raw on this first album. Even tougher that he had to sing (mostly)Chris Baretto's lyrics . Spencer was a guitarist and Misha has said this was the first thing Spencer professionally sang on. Tom Murphy was the bassist on this album. Periphery current has no bassist. wonder what Tom is doing. lpl

Love your videos man! Take care of yourself and wish you a speedy recovery.

Yes!!!!! Been a fan since Periphery 1 Been listening to this album again recently for the memories.

Keep up the incredible work, man! Absolutely love your videos (especially when they're on my favorite band, this one)! Can't wait to see what the next year brings to the Decomposer Lounge!

I'm happy you've chosen to come this far Geebz, love fresh takes on my old favourites! Keep going! Ahhhhright!!!!

Thank you! Can't wait for more

I’m still here! It’s fun to see how new approaches you’re exposed to actually do impact your mainstream work, subconsciously maybe. It may take you awhile to recognize them, but they nuance in. Keeps us evolving… great reaction, thanks Geebz!

Your reaction to periphery's "make total destroy" was my introduction to your channel, been a hell of a journey. Best of luck to you on your recovery 🤘

Still here. Thank you for the technical insight and reaction on these tracks. It makes me feel genuinely happy to feel like I'm listening to these tracks for the first time, again. Hoping for the best for your recovery.

I’m still here :) Your videos bring a lot of joy!

I've appreciated all of your videos so much! I love many of the prog bands you've reviewed and I don't have any friends to geek about the musicality of it, so it feels nice to hear someone else appreciate the aspects of the engineering and composition.

Great pick Geebz! I was just blasting this track in my car the other day.

Still here! Hope all goes well with your surgery Geebz! Get yourself some rest over the next few weeks!

This was their first album and was largely written by Misha as instrumentals. I can't speak specifically about this song, but Spencer had to create his melodies and add his vocals to finished songs. Going forward he was more heavily involved and the vocals are now an equal or even greater (in some cases) component in the composition. I'll always have a soft spot for this album, but the band has leveled up tremendously since these days, both in composition and sound. I'd still love to see you react to the closer on this album someday, Racecar. As do many of your other viewers judging by the comments haha. Best of luck with your surgery!

I AM HEREEEE!!!!!! And been watchin you since the beginning of your journey with us. Its been a pleasure watching you so far. Many more to come hopefully. ALOHA!!

I don't think I have ever seen a channel grow quite this fast. Well done man, great content and insights.

I'm still here, as usual haha. Good vibes to you and yours.

I know its wishful thinking, but I really would love to see you continue with these guys more often! Such an inspirational band as well as an inspirational reaction channel!

I love the faces you make while listening haha shows your into it

I'm still here Geebz! Hope all goes well with your surgery and you have a speedy recovery.

Still here enjoying the epic rants 🤘

I love how you turned Misha Mansoor into Mishoor lol

Always here mate.

P1 and P2 are absolute masterpieces, and the rerecordings of a few songs from P1, including Jetpacks Was Yes 2.0 are just as good as these originals.

Great video 👌

Periphery is phenomenal. All New Materials or Luck as a Constant is a good choice for next pure riffery's reaction

please don’t ever worry about any spelling mistakes you make, that’s not what your real followers care about. Love your insights!

Still here, bro! Have a speedy recovery.

Still here. Love this video as this song is my absolute Periphery favorite.

Can’t wait to force my wife to get me your shirt for Christmas!!

Why is this chorus so damn beautiful????

Still here! As great as always.

Absolute gem of a song, one of my faves.

I'm still here. Don't stop the videos!

I'm still here! Periphery actually has done a couple of documentaries while recording P3 and P4 I believe. They're on KZfaq and really insightful with regards to how they record

IM STILL HERE!! best of wishes on your surgery ☺️

Your first pause was blue balls man. Hehe, love it.

I love that you love these bands

Love to see you do another Clowncore before your break! Computers has a killer sax solo

Hey man maybe next year to count down year 2 you should consider doing a series of songs from certain groups in an order or a pt 1 and 2 etc. Just food for thought. Not trying to tell you what to do. I've seen you multiple times refer to a series of songs and how cool it would be to hear you respond to some of the best series out there like the great unknown, Dark horse and white light from the ghost inside! Thanks for your content bud...still here!

I'm still heeeeeeere! good luck with the surgery

Good stuff bro! Not a bad track. Yes, I'm a TOOL fanatic and very much looking forward to what you have coming in that area. Also loving some of the new stuff I've been hearing on your channels. TOOL is Pink Floyd for the new millennium. Rich the Ancient Metal Beast

Check out Sianvar Don't Carry This This song give me goosebumps

Love this song it's so ethereal, and so damn catchy too.

I am still here. What a great pick from a classic album. Have a killer day

Still here, man. Good luck with the surgery!!

So glad you appreciated them like I do.

Dude YESS!!

Been enjoying your reactions from the start. A gentle suggestion: for these reactions where you revisit artists, can I recommend you link the other reactions you’ve done from the same band in the description?

I'm glad you're digging Periphery. They are freaky talented. Keep going thru their catalogue. There are tons of great tracks. Try Flatline or Church Burner.

Aloha Geebz, this song is one of my old favorites from my high school days that got me through some really rough shit! Also, it's hilarious to me that you refer to Misha Mansoor as Mishoor it's like a compressed short version lol. Or it could be a reply from a kid, are you sure little guy? Yeah Mishoor 😂

Please do more of them

I almost forgot how much I love this song

LONG! RANTS! LONG! RANTS! 😂 I love those.

Oh boy Geebz you should do another 1hr video like the anniversary one but for Periphery songs they have like 6 albums (5, but one is a double album), so many good riffs and melodies to discover! And btw to answer your question at the end of the listening this whole first album came initially from instrumental songs, with most riffs/ideas written years ago mostly by Misha. The vocals were added later. On every album that follows they tried to improve their process where either each of them would be the main composer for one song or they would bounce ideas off each others for some other songs of the album (mostly toward the latest albums). Basically this whole things is 5 nerds in a studio having fun with heavy sounds and electronic stuff :)

still here! gonna miss your posts!

Please do Dimmu Borgir "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"

Oh man you should really listen to Circa Survive - Phantasmagoria Or We're All Thieves

im still here and always will be!

The original Periphery self titled is my absolute favorite and a standout among the discography. Favorite tracks are All New Materials and Totla Mad. Still Here!

I'm still here! Mastodon baby! Come on!!!😂 I promise to stop with that now. Love the channel Geebz!!🤘🎵♥️🎵🤘

You should definitely check out their documentaries here on KZfaq. They're insightful and very well made.

Love the Periphery videos! I think you would really enjoy Arch Echo - to the moon.

yup you should do reaction to their Insomnia, which is also one of their P1 bangers

All of Periphery 1 is fire. If you get through a few more tracks from it on your channel I'd highly suggest a full listen.

POG!

Scarlet (their catchiest song) Have A Blast! (feat Guthrie Govan) Erised (feat John Petrucci)

Each song of the album this is in connects to each other, so that's why the intro sounded like an outro and viceversa

their first album is definitely far and in a way drastically different from all of the others. all of the tracks have electronic stuff that bridges each song into the next. bass on p1 was tom murphy and they had a guitarist by the name of Alex Bois who later got replaced by Mark Holcomb.

Loved early Periphery, guys were still geniuses even as kids (basically)!

Hey Geebz, long time listener, love your stuff....Big fan of the Radiohead ones... Wondering if you have considered doing an Interpol song? .... I would suggest NYC, Next Exit or Wrecking Ball but there are plenty of groovy tracks .... Very big band that doesn't get decomposed enough ;) .... Thanks buddy, peace & love

As a fellow former drummer with a strong penchant for well produced/engineered modern prog metal, I *strongly* recommend the song "Son of Robot" by Dance Gavin Dance.

You should do a reaction to The Tea Party. The River or Sun Going Down. P.S . Glad I found your channel.

Yep, still here. Hope the surgery goes well, will be patiently waiting for more.

Awesome, I'm here for anything Periphery. This is off their first album, so not quite as polished as the later stuff you've listened to but it's still great in it's own way.

You gotta check out Light as well. Talk about blown away by a first album track

Still here, all the best.

Nice review Geebz, if I could recommend a song it would be Gungrave - ERRA.

Definitely check Jetpacks Was yes 2.0! Improved version, beautiful !

Whelp, too bad for you that you did pick a song that was the meat in a sandwich. Guess you'll have to decompose another periphery song to make up for it!!! HAHA!! Thanks for this my dude! I've been loving your channel for a while. You rock!

solo puedo decir...que temaso!

All of P1 flows together with no gaps like one big song so really this is part 4 of 12