Description

Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover

Washington, D.C.’s Periphery push at the boundaries of progressive metal, utilizing detuned, extended-range instruments to create a sound that’s as technically dizzying as it is relentlessly heavy. Using a framework laid down by djent pioneers like Meshuggah and running wild with it, the group issued the massive Juggernaut project in 2015. It consisted of two albums Juggernaut Alpha and Juggernaut Omega (also released together as a double album). The two albums were released the same day in January 2015 and they both received positive reviews for the band and even higher chart placements, topping out at number 22 on Billboard. The two albums took the band nearly six months to record. Alpha features the rousing, hook-laden single Heavy Heart and the progressive-minded title track. It finds the group exploring sonic vistas that reside outside of the increasingly fragmented world of 21st century metal, incorporating elements of groove, blues, pop, and punk metal into the mix, but always maintaining a core of pure muscularity. Omega offers up another bottom-heavy set of propulsive, djent-fueled mayhem that skillfully weaves in elements of thrash, progressive metal, fusion, and straight-up metalcore-blasted malevolence, with highlights arriving via standout cuts like The Bad Thing, Graveless and Hell Below. The album debuted in the number 25 slot on the Billboard Top 200 upon its release.

Track list:
1. A Black Minute
2. MK Ultra
3. Heavy Heart
4. The Event
5. The Scourge
6. Alpha
7. 22 Faces
8. Rainbow Gravity
9. Four Lights
10. Psychosphere
11. Reprise
12. The Bad Things
13. Priestess
14. Graveless
15. Hell Below
16. Omega
17. Stranger Things