Turbo Rules – In Memoriam

Periphery, who recently announced the release of their fifth album, Periphery III: Select Difficulty (July 22, Sumerian Records), share the first music to be heard from the 11-song album as the DC-based band streams new song, “The Price is Wrong” (https://youtu.be/518uB9qnQdI).

“It’s like handing somebody a grenade,” guitar player Jake Bowen says of the song, which serves as the album opener. “It’s so in-your-face and brutal for us. It was a great way to start.”

“Every one of our albums has a nice long intro, and we were like, ‘Let’s kick this off with a drum fill and a pissed-off riff,’” laughs guitar player Misha Mansoor. “It’s something we haven’t done. It was fun.”

Physical pre-order bundles for the new album are available now via Sumerianmerch.com and digitally via iTunes (http://smarturl.it/PeripheryIII-iTunes), Amazon (http://smarturl.it/PeripheryIII-Amazon) and Google Play (http://smarturl.it/PeripheryIII-GoogleP). Digital pre-orders include an instant download of “The Price is Wrong.”

Periphery III: Select Difficulty track listing:

1. The Price is Wrong
2. Motormouth
3. Marigold
4. The Way The News Goes…
5. Remain Indoors
6. Habitual Line-Stepper
7. Flatline
8. Absolomb
9. Catch Fire
10. Prayer Position
11. Lune
Periphery launch a U.S. tour, The Sonic Unrest tour presented by The Noise and sponsored by D’Addario and Guitar Center, on Aug. 4 in Raleigh, NC. Openers for the month-long trek include SikTh, Chon and Toothgrinder. Tickets are on-sale now with VIP packages, which feature a private meet and greet with the band as well as a limited edition, exclusive poster are available at www.periphery.net.

June 8  London, UK  Periphery Master Class at Bell Percussion
June 11  Nickelsdorf, Austria  Nova Rock Festival
June 12  Derby, UK  Download Festival
July 15  Bridgeview, IL  Chicago Open Air Festival

The Noise Presents The Sonic Unrest Tour, sponsored by D’Addario and Guitar Center:

August 4  Raleigh, NC  Lincoln Theatre
August 5  Atlanta, GA  Masquerade
August 6  Memphis, TN  New Daisy Theater
August 7  Dallas, TX  House of Blues
August 8  San Antonio, TX  Alamo City Music Hall
August 9  Houston, TX  House of Blues
August 11  Phoenix, AZ  The Press Room
August 12  San Diego, CA  House of Blues
August 13  Los Angeles, CA  The Regent
August 14  San Francisco, CA  The Fillmore
August 16  Portland, OR  Hawthorne Theater
August 17  Seattle, WA  The Showbox
August 19  Salt Lake City, UT  The Complex
August 20  Denver, CO  Summit Music Hall
August 22  Minneapolis, MN  Varsity Theater
August 24  Milwaukee, WI  Turner Hall Ballroom
August 25  Grand Rapids, MI  Intersection
August 26  Detroit, MI  St. Andrew’s Hall
August 27  Pittsburgh, PA  Mr. Small’s Theatre
August 28  Philadelphia, PA  Theatre of the Living Arts
August 30  Boston, MA  Paradise
August 31  New York, NY  Irving Plaza
September 1  Baltimore, MD  Baltimore Sound Stage

Periphery’s most recent releases, the Juggernaut albums, debuted at #15 and #16 on Billboard’s Top Album chart.  The conceptual releases were hailed by outlets for their modern take on prog; Rolling Stone dubbed the albums “a prog-metal opera,” Alternative Press said the release “ushers in new wave of heavy” and Outburn said the albums “most likely changed the face of modern progressive metal as we know it.”

The band will host a four-day, immersive summer camp dubbed the “Periphery Summer Jam” on July 25 to 29 at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, New York. Registration and further information can be found here: www.peripherysummerjam.com.