Album Review: Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha

Spencer Sotelo is the worst thing to ever happen to Periphery.

The band used to be raw and cool, swimming across a sea of ever-changing and expansively original demo tracks that explored the tonality of heavy riffs and the complexity of fleeting time signatures. Alpha attempts to be ambitious and wide in scope, but instead comes across as pretentious and almost unlistenable. Periphery’s past greatness is buried by the cringeworthy nature of Sotelo’s adolescent whine, which has taken precedence over every other musical component in the band, ensuring that any smidgeon of carnal ferocity is completely lost.