The fact that you found that Hades reference is impressive, Misha joked saying P5 would've come out sooner if he hadn't played so much Hades

@Djroshi01

Жыл бұрын

Why is that the most Misha thing? 🤣

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

It helps that Darren Korb is one of my favorite composers and I listened to the Hades OST on repeat for weeks. Also have a few of the tracks as custom songs in Beat Saber 🤣

@somekiryl

Жыл бұрын

Love Transistor OST!

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

@@somekiryl Totally agree. Transistor is probably my #1 game ever. The lore, the visuals, the heartbreaking tale, the phenomenal skill system, and the audio. If ever there was a perfect game this could be it.

@whatdothlife4660

Жыл бұрын

@@CriticalReactions Have you listened to any Austin Wintory OST's like Journey, Abzu, or my favorite album of the past year The Pathless? I have l istened to The Pathless daily for 6 months.

So it's funny that you picked right up on the Juggernaut style sound. Mark was on Nik Nocturnal's stream and said they were originally writing Juggernaut 2 but couldn't get it to work just right. So there's a chance some of these songs will have motif's or callbacks to Juggernaut's story/protagonist to unofficially continue story.

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

That explains soooo much!

the Four Lights riff was the best little tease on Zagreus haha

The fact they can mix heavy and beautiful so flawlessly makes Periphery one of my favorite bands of all time

Mark wrote some of the stuff in P2, the riff in Scarlet for example is his along with a lot of the stuff in Mile Zero and I'm sure I'm missing others but you get the point. Great analysis, I really dig the harmonics in both of these tracks for sure!

So hyped for this album, absolutely love both singles

@CygnusVoyager

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t finished the whole video yet, but the jingle you hear at the end of Zagreus before the orchestral part is the death theme from the video game Hades (also where the title of the track comes from) Edit: you figured it out at the end lol

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

Took me some time but it finally clicked 😄

I feel like Periphery are going full Between the Buried and Me on this album and I'm all for it.

The "what is that" bit is from the game Hades.

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

Yup, finally clicked about 45 minutes into the reaction lol

Hell yeah man! Both songs are straight bangers. That jazz break comes in clutch. Zagreus has the nastiest groove I love it.

@Bikonito

Жыл бұрын

prog fans try not to call everything with clean guitar jazz challenge (impossible)

@LouisR56

Жыл бұрын

@@Bikonito he's talking about the piano part with the sax solo....

@Zaque-TV

Жыл бұрын

@@LouisR56 sí señor

its never too heavy

Only 20 mins into your vid and I’m stoked to see your reaction to Wildfire. One of the best and smartest reaction/review/breakdown I’ve seen yet. Instant subscribe my friend. 👏🏼👏🏼 Love me some Periphery.

@myklelara

Жыл бұрын

Also just fyi, Mark Holcomb was instrumental in Pii for songs like Scarlet and my favorite Mile Zero

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

Oh nice! For some reason I though he came in too late to be part of the song writing on that one. Also welcome to the community!

@ckokomo808

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the critical reaction community!

Wildfire is the epitome of never let them know your next move.

Man you really went hard on the Zagreus bridge. I don’t hear anything corny about it, just great rock

I’m very curious to see if there is an overall thematic continuation of Juggernaut.

@Djroshi01

Жыл бұрын

Potentially a strong chance. These riff references are becoming meta. This could be a social experiment for all we know 🤣 I love these guys.

I have a theory that the album title Djent Is Not A Genre is just a big joke and that the new album is actually a sequel to Juggernaut.

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the title is a joke but I wasn't expecting a sequel. If it is though.... well, I might not get too much music listened to this year cuz I'll have P5 on endless repeat.

Cloudkicker vibes at 7:10

I agree. I prefer Zagreus with its more melodic moments. So excited about the new album. They are in my top 3 bands with Leprous and Caligula's Horse. Also can't wait for a tour.

loved these songs and enjoyed your reaction! i am guessing that you have already seen the new Sleep token song - "The Summoning" ? it kinda blew up here and is making the rounds, but theres no reaction i would love to watch more than yours!

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

I saw it was released alongside 2 others (I think) but haven't had a chance to check them out yet. I wanted to do a reaction but Hail the Sun came out the same week and then Periphery dropped theirs -- two highly anticipated albums by me. And now I have a Creator Request which is what I normally do in that Friday time slot. I'll see what I can do though. I've heard good things about The Summoning

Been listening to reaction videos of these two new tracks since they came out. First time seeing any of your videos, and I'm loving it. Its awesome with watching someone that has more experience/research with periphery than the typical "first time listener". I've been obsessed with periphery since p2. They (to me) make music that needs to be experienced, and this album will be no exception:) great video man! Subbed

@12biganalbeads

Жыл бұрын

Jeez, I'm still only halfway through the video. You actually do a lyric breakdown too!? Man you're awesome 👌

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying the video. I try to break down and understand the song to the best of my capabilities based on a first time listen employing active listening skills and digging into lyrics (which I usually don't listen to during the reaction). I usually use song structure, time signature, chordal emotion, and lyrics to explain what the song is doing and how effectively it's accomplishing that -- even if I didn't enjoy the song. This is a bit of an outlier as I'm already a huge Periphery fan so part of the analysis was tying it back to previous works, so don't expect that in every reaction. 😅

Everyone always says it’s a reference from four lights but I haven’t seen anyone mention it’s also in stranger things

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

So I went back and listened to Stranger Things and Zagreus and I don't hear any of the Four Lights variations in Stranger Things but I do hear something very close to the heavy bridge from Stranger Things in Zagreus' opening riff. Also watched Wildfire again and I can't believe I didn't catch the parallels in the breakaway to lounge music concept, something they used in MK Ultra too.

Enjoyed both of these, perhaps even more so because it's been so long since I listened to Periphery or most djent-based prog, so this sounded much fresher to me now than it did back when I was exploring the genre and everything started to sound rather samey. The first track was definitely more varied, while the second leaned into the djent aspects more but still offered enough variety to keep things interesting. It also probably helps given that I haven't listened to Periphery enough to recognize all of the self-referential stuff you mentioned in the review; I just found myself enjoying the riffs on their own. Though I liked the poppier elements as well I don't feel like Periphery does those parts as well (or at least as interestingly/innovatively) as the heavier parts.

Four lights bro they do that stuff in every album and have hidden easter eggs.. I think they felt rushed on jugg by the label and want to redo part of it

I'm glad you took the investigative detour at the back end of this reaction. You should do this whenever you see fit, as it's welcome. I'm not a fan of the 'harsh' vocals, but whilst I enjoy everything else there are too many of those vocals for me to ever get past them and become a proper fan.

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

I recommend their 3rd album then. Similar ideas but much lighter in nature, which led to a greater emphasis on clean vocals. Alternatively you could check out Tesseract, a band that came out around the same time as Periphery but actively pushed away from harshes, using them only on their debut album as they felt this style of music wouldn't sell without them.

Great reaction as always! If you're interested in more of the details of Zagreus, I just put out a full musical analysis of it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eYSK18acpdPNeqQ.html Really looking forward to the rest of the album!

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

100%. I'll be checking this out tomorrow

I love you

I feel like they chose the name Zagreus because of him being the main character in Hades. Idk much about The actual mythology, but trying to break free and repeatedly killed over and over just to be thrown back to the very beginning seems like a fitting concept for the lyrics. Edit: ah you figured it out 😂

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

I was a bit slow on making the connection but I finally got it going 😄

protest the hero influence?

@MustacheCastache190

Жыл бұрын

ive been thinkin this too, mainly with the song structure

@dek86s

Жыл бұрын

@@MustacheCastache190 what bands do you like the most?

It feels like Periphery is going to keep trolling us musically with this EP. Especially considering they titled it "Djent is not a genre" lmao.

If you're not a fan of brutally heavy, don't react to "Everything is Fine". Trust me, everyting is NOT fine.

Zagreus so much better. Wildfire is the normie track that is meh for me.

@CriticalReactions

Жыл бұрын

That's where I'm at but I'm hoping it works well in the context of the album. I compared it to Blood Eagle from P4 but another, maybe better, comparison would be MK Ultra which also is primarily heavy AND ends on an odd, lighter shift as well (elevator music in that one). In isolation I'd never listen to MK Ultra but it works extremely well in the context of the album and I never skip it.

popurriphery. im sowwy :(