Comments on: PERIPHERY’S MATT HALPERN’S GOT GROOVE

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:16:17 +0000

or Breeze. thats one of bulbs older tunes but its legit.

By: Tim Shanks

Tim Shanks — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:39:10 +0000

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.

By: IsntaTOTALdouchebag10

IsntaTOTALdouchebag10 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:23:13 +0000

yeah maybe I jumped to conclusions. I really dont know that much about drums.

By: erik

erik — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:51:15 +0000

>=D

By: erik

erik — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:10:46 +0000

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

By: Not Nesesarily Stoned...

Not Nesesarily Stoned... — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:48:39 +0000

Bummer.
Those single-point-source Tannoy NF monitors are sooo awesome; and you can’t get them anymore.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:22:25 +0000

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.

By: niko topshotta

niko topshotta — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:03:41 +0000

these guys shred waaaaay harder than meshuggah!
meshuggah is one one of my favourit bands, but these guys are way more amazing!

By: Ramsey

Ramsey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:46:39 +0000

Also epic fail, but technically thats for Bulbs side band Of Man Not Of Machine

By: Ilovemymomsbasement

Ilovemymomsbasement — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:17:55 +0000

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.

By: Quintupple

Quintupple — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:09:50 +0000

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.

By: Kill All

Kill All — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:22:08 +0000

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

By: Brutalizer

Brutalizer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:21:38 +0000

You are just dumb.

By: Brutalizer

Brutalizer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:20:48 +0000

I think they may have covered every open note variation possible in that horrible video.

By: BLZBUB

BLZBUB — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:49:48 +0000

Who’s Meshuggah?

By: Noel

Noel — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:10:59 +0000

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!

By: i think

i think — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:58:02 +0000

he can also swizzle the sticks. thats an a* in my book

By: IsntaTOTALdouchebag10

IsntaTOTALdouchebag10 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:24:38 +0000

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.

By: The man

The man — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:08:57 +0000

That guitar tone has been used to death. They need a new direction meshsugar style has been done to death as well.

By: AEnema175

AEnema175 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:16:21 +0000

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.