“It’s like handing somebody a grenade,” guitar player Jake Bowen says of the song, which serves as the album opener. “It’s so in-your-face and brutal for us. It was a great way to start.”

“Every one of our albums has a nice long intro, and we were like, ‘Let’s kick this off with a drum fill and a pissed-off riff,’” laughs guitar player Misha Mansoor. “It’s something we haven’t done. It was fun.”

Physical pre-order bundles for the new album are available now via Sumerianmerch.com and digitally via iTunes (http://smarturl.it/PeripheryIII-iTunes), Amazon (http://smarturl.it/PeripheryIII-Amazon) and Google Play (http://smarturl.it/PeripheryIII-GoogleP). Digital pre-orders include an instant download of “The Price is Wrong.”

Periphery III: Select Difficulty track listing:

1. The Price is Wrong
2. Motormouth
3. Marigold
4. The Way The News Goes…
5. Remain Indoors
6. Habitual Line-Stepper
7. Flatline
8. Absolomb
9. Catch Fire
10. Prayer Position
11. Lune

Periphery launch a U.S. tour, The Sonic Unrest tour presented by The Noise and sponsored by D’Addario and Guitar Center, on Aug. 4 in Raleigh, NC. Openers for the month-long trek include SikTh, Chon and Toothgrinder. Tickets are on-sale now with VIP packages, which feature a private meet and greet with the band as well as a limited edition, exclusive poster are available at www.periphery.net.

June 8  London, UK  Periphery Master Class at Bell Percussion

June 11  Nickelsdorf, Austria  Nova Rock Festival

June 12  Derby, UK  Download Festival

July 15  Bridgeview, IL  Chicago Open Air Festival

The Noise Presents The Sonic Unrest Tour, sponsored by D’Addario and Guitar Center:

August 4  Raleigh, NC  Lincoln Theatre

August 5  Atlanta, GA  Masquerade

August 6  Memphis, TN  New Daisy Theater

August 7  Dallas, TX  House of Blues

August 8  San Antonio, TX  Alamo City Music Hall

August 9  Houston, TX  House of Blues

August 11  Phoenix, AZ  The Press Room

August 12  San Diego, CA  House of Blues

August 13  Los Angeles, CA  The Regent

August 14  San Francisco, CA  The Fillmore

August 16  Portland, OR  Hawthorne Theater

August 17  Seattle, WA  The Showbox

August 19  Salt Lake City, UT  The Complex

August 20  Denver, CO  Summit Music Hall

August 22  Minneapolis, MN  Varsity Theater

August 24  Milwaukee, WI  Turner Hall Ballroom

August 25  Grand Rapids, MI  Intersection

August 26  Detroit, MI  St. Andrew’s Hall

August 27  Pittsburgh, PA  Mr. Small’s Theatre

August 28  Philadelphia, PA  Theatre of the Living Arts

August 30  Boston, MA  Paradise

August 31  New York, NY  Irving Plaza

September 1  Baltimore, MD  Baltimore Sound Stage

Periphery’s most recent releases, the Juggernaut albums, debuted at #15 and #16 on Billboard’s Top Album chart.  The conceptual releases were hailed by outlets for their modern take on prog; Rolling Stone dubbed the albums “a prog-metal opera,” Alternative Press said the release “ushers in new wave of heavy” and Outburn said the albums “most likely changed the face of modern progressive metal as we know it.”

The band will host a four-day, immersive summer camp dubbed the “Periphery Summer Jam” on July 25 to 29 at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, New York. Registration and further information can be found here: www.peripherysummerjam.com.

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