Check out the chat below. Opening with a track that is nearly seventeen minutes long is kind of an unconventional way to sequence an album. How does "Reptile" establish the album as a whole? Well, you ...

Periphery drummer Matt Halpern is always ready to help out a friend. So when his longtime bud/guitarist Justin Gosnell needed a drummer for some session work, it was no problem. Gosnell and vocalist ...

Periphery drummer Matt Halpern joins us this week. We talk about the band’s new album Periphery IV: Hail Stan, which stan he’d be hailing if he had a choice, the importance of taking a full year to ...

Today via Twitter, DOOM composer Mick Gordon (who also worked on Wolfenstein: The New Order, Killer Instinct and Need for Speed) announced that two other noteworthy musicians will be taking the stage ...

While the band members may be the meat and potatoes of an album, we often overlook the other major contributors involved in records. In the modern progressive and metal scene, the use of orchestration ...