GRAMMY® Award-nominated progressive metal quintet Periphery are headed back to Australia next March, bringing their new album A Pale White Dot to life on stages across the country for a six-date headline tour. Supporting them on all dates will be Sydney modern metalcore outfit Inertia.
Formed nearly two decades ago, Periphery — Misha Mansoor [guitar, programming], Jake Bowen [guitar, programming], Matt Halpern [drums], Spencer Sotelo [vocals] and Mark Holcomb [guitar] — have spent their career diligently reshaping, recharging, and redefining themselves. The band’s signature sound has evolved like any living and breathing organism would, gaining complexity and strength through life experience. Such progression has enabled the collective to deliver its most cohesive offering yet, A Pale White Dot (3DOT Recordings).
From their 2010 self-titled debut through to 2023’s Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre, the band have built a reputation for mind-blowing instrumentation, immersive soundscape architecture, cathartically crushing vocals, and cosmically catchy melodies, but you’ll also get emotional acuity, raw humanity, and a level of relatability that could only come from a group of brothers who have effectively gone through it all. Periphery has charged ahead at lightspeed since the 2010 release of their self-titled debut LP. Along the way, they picked up a GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Best Metal Performance,” notched three straight Top 25 debuts on the Billboard 200, clocked hundreds of millions of streams, and sold out shows on multiple continents.
Supporting Periphery across Australia is Sydney-siders Inertia. Described by Rolling Stone Australia as “one of Australia’s most compelling heavy acts right now”, Inertia have forged their path as ones to watch in the global heavy scene, and they tightened their grip on modern metalcore with the release of their debut album Second Shadow. The quartet bend and break the boundaries of their genre, targeting fans of Loathe, Spiritbox and Thornhill with flashes of SZA and The Weeknd. The band bring elements of dark pop and soul to the forefront as they explore the darkest corners of metal music and add to it their own sprinkling of emo pop.