Periphery at Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (22 August 2016)

Periphery Setlist Scarlet Luck as a Constant The Way the News Goes... Marigold Remain Indoors The Bad Thing Flatline Memento (Haunted Shores cover) Make Total Destroy The Price Is Wrong -- Encore -- Four Lights Stranger Things Lune Tour Dates 08/24 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom 08/25 Grand Rapids, MI Intersection 08/26 Detroit, MI St. Andrew’s Hall 08/27 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre 08/28 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts 08/30 Boston, MA Paradise 08/31 New York, NY Irving Plaza 09/01 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Sound Stage Read More Periphery American progressive metal band Periphery are back with a new record called Juggernaut... the record is so big that it was split into two albums, Juggernaut: Alpha … Chon Instrumental band Chon was jaw dropping and astonishing last Sunday night. I was stopped in my tracks, I was stunned... I saw these guys last March with Animals as Leaders and I remember …

Periphery is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the progressive metal / djent scene. They have been putting out music since 2010 and recently released their newest album, Periphery III: Select Difficulty in July of this year (Sumerian, Century Media). They made a stop in Minneapolis at the Varsity Theater on Monday night to promote this new release and prove why they have as much hype around them as they do.

Toothgrinder

New Jersey metal band Toothgrinder opened up the show. They are currently supporting their debut album Nocturnal Masquerade which came out in January of this year.

Chon

Chon, a young instrumental group from San Diego, CA was the second group to play last night. They captivated the crowd with their sweeping guitar solos and complicated drum rhythms. They are currently touring off their only album Grow which came out in 2015 but with the momentum they have right now, I wouldn't be surprised to see a new album in their near future.

We caught Chon in September 2015 and previously was impressed with the group: “Chon was jaw dropping and astonishing...”

SikTh

SikTh, one of the three openers, seemed to be the crowd favorite of the night. This tour is SikTh's first time in the United States and it showed within the first note that the crowd had been craving a chance to see these guys live. Sikth's style was much more avant-garde than the rest of the line-up. With difficult time signatures and intricate guitar work, these guys wowed the crowd as they played through their near hour long set. SikTh features two vocalists which was a tad different for a metal band but it added some variety in the vocal stylings of the music.

Periphery took the stage to hundreds of screaming fans and proceeded to play through ten songs and then a three song encore: ‘Four Lights’, ‘Stranger Things’, and ‘Lune’.

The technicality of the guitar riffs was not lost in the live setting and it was jaw dropping to watch these musicians play through the set.

The fans pushed and shoved as Periphery played mostly from their latest Periphery III: Select Difficulty, including ‘The Price Is Wrong’, ‘Marigold’, ‘The Way the News Goes...’, ‘Remain Indoors’, and ‘Flatline’ with sprinkles of 2015’s Juggernaut: Omega and a cover of Haunted Shores’ ‘Memento’. Haunted Shores is one of Periphery’s guitarist Misha “Bulb” Mansoor’s many musical projects.

Periphery at Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (22 August 2016)

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