Periphery The Coachfire Chronicles

By |January 5th, 2013|Categories: Music News|Tags: , , , , |

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

By |September 25th, 2012|Categories: Gear News|Tags: , , , , |

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 [...]

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