The founder and guitarist of a popular American heavy metal band is getting pushback for some recent comments he made. Periphery’s Misha Mansoor sat down for an interview with the “Nick Nocturnal ...

Thanks for having me on. Periphery III: Select Difficulty is out now, and it was originally supposed to just be an EP. How did it evolve into a full fledged album? We got together with the band to ...

Periphery and Sumerian Records go way, way back. The band’s entire discography to date is through the label, and along with The Faceless, Born of Osiris, and Veil of Maya, they’re the band that’s most ...

"This is definitely still a Periphery album, though it's got a lot more substance reflective of what we do as a unit," says Jake Bowen, guitarist of Washington, D.C.-based progressive metal outfit ...

Over the winter, Periphery mastermind Misha Mansoor gave a very candid interview in which he talked about the importance of diversified income streams for metal musicians, even at Periphery’s level, ...

When the six members of the Maryland progressive-metal band Periphery convened last summer at the home of drummer Matt Halpern, they had only a massive jumble of disconnected songs. When they left ...

Progressive metalcore juggernauts Periphery will release a new album, titled Periphery III: Select Difficulty, July 22 via Sumerian Records. “For the past couple of years we’ve been refining our ...

More importantly, new Haunted Shores - his side project with Misha Mansoor. "Misha and I have tentatively set aside a couple weeks in the fall to write/record a new album, as soon as we're done with ...

"When we're putting these things together, we're not really paying attention to the length." According to Mansoor, the creative process is more akin to exploring an open-world video game. They follow ...

In the spring of 2010, an explosion of chuggy riffs, subsonic booms and futuristic metal sounds carved a corner for itself in metal. It was called djent, so named because of the djent-djent sounds of ...