Periphery The Coachfire Chronicles
When I was working media with the magazine I got to spend time on a few occasions with Misha Mansoor. It's been really cool to watch Periphery get to where they are now. The first time I saw them live they had just picked up their singer, started their tour and were in Des Moines, IA all crammed in a 15 passenger van basically scraping by. But when you saw them live you knew that this was a group of players that could have a sustained amount of success with just the progressive fans alone. So Jeff Holcomb who filled in with [...]
Matt Halpern Mapex MyDentity Drums
Have you heard of Matt Halpern?? If not, leave my website and go to google now!!! Dude is the drummer for the progressive metal band Periphery. I was fortunate enough to work on some stuff with those guys when I was freelancing for the magazine. During that time one of the most apparent things was that Matt was the real deal. In prog music there are a lot of great drummers. But, IMO many of them tend to be mechanical. I don't know that I would call that a bad thing but lets just say it's something that I pick [...]
