Ground-breaking progressive metallers Periphery are back with a new video and song from their just announced new album, premiered by Sirius XM Liquid Metal host Jose Mangin. The fiery track ‘Blood ‘Eagle’ comes from Periphery IV: Hail Stan, due out on April 5th via their own 3DOT Recordings, their first release for the label. Watch the clip, Directed by Jeremy Danger and Travis Shinn, right now!
Guitar player Mark Holcomb commented:
“We’ve known since the late stages of P4 writing sessions that ‘Blood Eagle’ would be the first song we released. It’s an unrelenting song that, even while we were writing it, we could say to ourselves: ‘We NEED to play this live.’ The original demo was vastly different, and through the songwriting process, it took on this kind of violent, explosive nature that is always hard to synthesize. That energy excited us and we knew it’d be the first thing we’d let you all hear.”
Guitar player/programmer Jake Bowen comments on 3DOT Recordings:
“We finally spent a year on a record. We’ve never been able to do that. The quality and pacing of the work show we took our time with this one. That’s an important note about this. We really got to do everything we wanted to do in the space we had to do it. I think you can hear the adventurous intent behind much of this material as a result. We’re all the happiest we’ve ever been with a release, and it’s no coincidence. Can’t wait for you all to hear it.”
Pre-orders, which include several limited-edition vinyl and merch bundles, are available now via https://store.3dotrecordings.com/ (physical) and digitally via iTunes (smarturl.it/hailstan_it). Digital pre-orders include an immediate download of “Blood Eagle,” which can be streamed now via Spotify (smarturl.it/bloodeagle_sp).
Periphery IV: Hail Stan track listing:
Reptile
Blood Eagle
CHVRCH BVRNER
Garden In The Bones
It’s Only Smiles
Follow Your Ghost
Crush
Sentient Glow
Satellites
Periphery embarks on a brief tour to coincide with the release, joining Dance Gavin Dance for a 15-date North American trek on March 30.
Periphery tour dates (all dates with Dance Gavin Dance):
March 30 Anaheim, CA City National Grove of Anaheim #
March 31 San Francisco, CA The Regency
April 2 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl
April 3 Phoenix, AZ Van Buren
April 5 Dallas, TX South Side Music Hall
April 6 San Antonio, TX Alamo City Music
April 7 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
April 9 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
April 11 Silver Springs, MD The Fillmore
April 12 New York, NY Playstation Theater SOLD OUT
April 13 Philadelphia, PA Franklin Music Hall
April 14 Worcester, MA Palladium
April 16 Cleveland, OH Agora
April 17 Detroit, MI Royal Oak
April 18 Chicago, IL House of Blues SOLD OUT
April 19 Chicago, IL House of Blues SOLD OUT
April 20 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
# – Swan Fest w/Dance Gavin Dance, Crown The Empire, Don Broco, Veil of Maya, Intervals, Volumes, Hail The Sun and more (www.dgdswanfest.com for more information and tickets).
Periphery is:
Jake Bowen (guitar, programming)
Matt Halpern (drums)
Mark Holcomb (guitar)
Misha Mansoor (guitar, programming)
Spencer Sotelo (vocals)
Lyrics:
We come for war
King of the north and norse
With drums beating, screams repeating and the hammer force of Thor
Surrender not enough
The christian seed will sing amongst the soil of trees
From the sea is the destroyer
From the sea is the eagle drenched in blood
Blood eagle is the destroyer
Blood eagle will set the wicked free
Rip the body from the bone now
Spread the heavens wings
Show Valhalla glory and memory
Let the christians sing
Let ‘em sing
Let out the roar
Barbaric to the core
A storm brewing
All our doing for Odin’s at the door
The spoils are not enough
We’ll let ‘em bleed
The moon takes everyone tonight
The christians sing
How they sing amongst the broken wings
from the sea is the eagle drenched in blood
A soul descending swiftly
The burning stench of afterlife
No rays from heaven
Only high sun
A soul descending swiftly
The burning stench of afterlife
No rays from heaven
And no son
Pleading to the sky once more
Weeping for the self
For the abandoned children of christ have been laid to waste on the shelf
Pour out the tide of valkyries
The land is ours to claim
No man or woman escape the fire
Now they can sing
NOW SING!
The tide of valkyries
We come for war
King of the north and norse
With drums beating, screams repeating and the hammer force of Thor
Surrender not enough
We’ll let ‘em bleed
The moon takes everyone tonight
We come for war
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