Periphery:Clear

My favorite band of all time, people love em, people hate, em it's Periphery. They're releasing new material called "Clear" which they said wasn't an EP nor is it a replacement for their full-length album titled "Juggernaut". This release will have songs written by everyone in the band, Spencer, Nolly, Matt, etc, etc. Not really looking for to the new VoM and the new BOO album was meh(Chelsea Grin is looking up, though, I'll get on that tomorrow, lol.) Anyway, the preview for each of the musicians songs that are on the release will be below. Nolly's and Spencer's will probably be my favorite.

Have A Blast(Periphery) vs Becoming The Dragon(Trivum)

So me and my friend were having a pretty deep discussion about Metal. And he popped the question "Hey, what's your favorite solo?" I automatically say "Have A Blast's Solo" and he says Trivum's Becoming The Dragon. I haven't heard that song, but omg, it was pretty damn good. The Song itself is pretty good "THIS DRAGON WILL RISE AND BE KING", gets me everytime. I got into Trivum around the Slogan days and never got to the 7th song on The Crusade (Whoops...lol.) What do you guys think which song has the better solo? I think they're both pretty good.

 

INMYOPINION- Of Mice & Men:Restoring Force - You're Not Alone

Of Mice & Men is releasing their third album called "Restoring Force". They recently released an single called "You're Not Alone". The song was DECENT, and honestly, it was nothing more. I was disappointed, but I was prepared to be. First of, the song doesn't really sound like the OM&M we all know and loved, or hated, now of course they said they weren't going to be the same, Austin's vocals suck now, Arron Pauley(Ex-Frontman of Jamie's Elsewhere) was completely wasted in this single. Of Mice & Men's new single doesn't even sound like metalcore it sounds hard rock. I understand band's will evolve, that's nice, change happens, but I don't wanna hear Hard Rock from a band that's released two pretty darn good metalcore albums, it showed they had potential to be good. In My Opinion - They should have broken out of the generic metalcore sound and made something lyrically(I'l get to that in a second) and instrumentally inspiring. For a LOT of people this song did no such thing. The lyrics in this song are VERY cliche handing you feels in a cup sort of lyrics, it has a message at the very least, so I guess I'll give them points for that. But as a lyric writer myself(I'm In A Band) I would've delivered this lyrics in a deeper and more intelligent way. That isn't what they were meant to be do, I get that. Overall the single was boring and a HUGE disappoint to a lot of people. I'm not going to deem the album a flop yet, but I'm only expecting to be disappointed even farther.