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 ...

Earlier today, the prog metal and totally not djent band Periphery released their two new singles, “Wildfire” and “Zagreus,” as promised. Both are featured on their upcoming album Periphery V: Djent ...

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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 ...