PERIPHERY’S MATT HALPERN’S GOT GROOVE
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 11:30am by Axl RosenbergPeriphery were the undeniable highlight of this year’s Thrash & Burn tour, and now that they’ve signed with Sumerian, we should finally be getting an awesome full-length sometime in 2010. That’s not as far away as it seems (!), but still, we wanna hear this fucker already. So we’re happy to post this video of drummer Matt Halpern that MS Maniac Chris Carter sent us. ‘Cause this dude can play.
We’ll have an interview with Periphery sometime in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, make sure you hit up their MySpace page…
-AR
Simple, yet badass. First, fuckers.
Going out on a limb here, I really prefer Periphery without vocals.
isn’t there already one meshuggah…..this is a low rent version
Yes, and there is already one Metallica… doesn’t mean we don’t have thousands of sound-a-likes.
no, they aren’t meshuggah
they don’t have a music video with demented pokemon in it, like this one;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc
that’s what we need more of, a solid groove based metal sound, with simpler drum sets.
however, better guitar riffs would be most helpful for that track.
That sounds like a throw away riff from catch 33
I like the drums, but for some reason that guitar riff made me think this was waaaay longer than 2:40.
For making a point to say that he is a awesome drummer, really wasnt all that impressed with his playing. He can keep time with the guitar with his bass drum. Awesome
Yeah, except in a complicated polyrhythm, to a complex riff and he adds ghost notes and accenting – id like to see you play it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUwEWy4-8A
tell me he’s not good, ya cunt. idiot.
From experience i can tell you that, Polyrhythms like those are some of the hardest things in drumming to pull off, it takes years of practice to pull off even the most simple of polyrhythms. and not only does he play perfectly with the guitar and without a mistake i might add, he adds things like ghosts notes and perfect off timed rolls. that triples the complexity right there. so in essence, Carter is absolutely right, and this guy is a phenomenal drummer.
Yes Carter you can play the drums while blowing yourself and we are all impressed.
Please point out in my post where I said he was not talented and where I said I could play it. I am a guitarist like every other person on the planet. My point was that since the point of the whole post was to point out his phenomenal drumming I expected more. I have listened to enough meshuggah-ilte bands to know about all that shit and it just didn’t blow me away like I expected it to.
he can also swizzle the sticks. thats an a* in my book
You are just dumb.
yeah maybe I jumped to conclusions. I really dont know that much about drums.
They actually opened the thrash and burn sets with this groove. its not a full track from the album, just a little thing. But this is what they played before “Light”
dude, at least change SOMETHING so you’re not a complete, less talented rip off. dude is an awesome drummer, and i’m sure other dude is a great guitar player, but they lack originality, which pretty much makes them really good at playing rock band, for real.
obviously you haven’t heard matt’s other stuff. he is one of the most talented and original drummers out there. he has incredible technique. the patterns he does are intricate as hell. watch the link carter posted. thats him just fucking around. this shit may sound redundant but those patterns would run circles everyone’s heads here. and he does that shit effortlessly. matt has only been in the band for like three months. he used to be in a non-metal band, the underwater, and he fucking shreds that shit up. extremely inventive.
That guitar tone has been used to death. They need a new direction meshsugar style has been done to death as well.
wow, i didnt know Meshuggah got a new drummer.oh wait…
[heres another]
oh, i didnt realize meshuggah changed their name to periphery. hmm.
[and another]
wow, these guys are a great cover band!
Who’s Meshuggah?
+1
>=D
I think they may have covered every open note variation possible in that horrible video.
it’s nice to see another drummer take from the Kenneth Schalk school of less-is-more when it comes to drum set size.
Once again, plenty of the MS-elite have been drinking their hater-ade
Good fucking christ people here suck balls when it comes to voicing opinions. Fact is, Matt Halpern was actually giving lessons to all of the drummers on the Thrash and Burn tour in playing metal (yes including Jon from Devil Driver), and he isn’t even a metal drummer to begin with!
As far as the Meshuggah comments go, it just proves you all have the ability to hear that there’s odd rhythms going on, but that’s about as far as your ability to hear analytically goes, you fucking cretins.
I actually got an hour or so drum lesson from Matt when periphery came to Minnesota last month. I can easily say this guy is an amazing drummer, and a fantastic teacher! it doesn’t surprise me that he was giving other drummers pointers. Matt’s incredibly well versed in music and listens to pretty much every genre out there. I’m sure he could play just about anything you hand to him.
You also know whats been done before? Anonymous metal-news-site-comment-hatred-from-stinky-basement-dwelling-psuedo musicians. If you think this band sounds like Mesh, go listen to Periphery songs like All New Materials, Not Enough Mana, Buttersnips, and Zyglrox, to get proved fucking WRONG.
Also epic fail, but technically thats for Bulbs side band Of Man Not Of Machine
these guys shred waaaaay harder than meshuggah!
meshuggah is one one of my favourit bands, but these guys are way more amazing!
Bummer.
Those single-point-source Tannoy NF monitors are sooo awesome; and you can’t get them anymore.