Select Difficulty - Periphery

Here's a band that I rediscovered after looking at guitars and amps.  The leader of the band, Misha Mansoor, has a new import signature Jackson guitar coming out, as well as a new amp called the Peavey Invective.

The specs on his guitars look awesome, and his new amp looks like something I'd want too.

Anyway, I've heard some Periphery before and liked it, but since I was listening to much heavier music at the time, I didn't listen to them much.

I recently started listening to Select Difficulty, and it's such an amazing album.  The vocalist reminds me a little bit of Chester Bennington from Linkin Park, Brandon Boyd from Incubus and Corey Taylor from Slipknot.  The guitar work is incredible.  Misha, Mark Halcomb and Jake Bowen are super creative guitarists and composers.  I love the orchestration and the super melodic guitar lines.

"The Way The News Goes...." has a beautiful and difficult intro guitar part that I'm trying to master.

Between this album, the latest Chthonic, the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu audiobook, and Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt's book, I have way too much media to consume, but I'm in a blissful state of sensory inundation!  Lucky thing it's a three-day weekend!!

Update 2/22 - I'm now completely obsessed with Marigold and The Way The News Goes...  I think I've listened to those two songs about 5 times a day.  Everything about those two songs is perfect.