VENUE ALEXANDRA PALACE, LONDON
DATE 13/02/2025
The last time Periphery were in London they headlined a sold-out Roundhouse. A little over a year later, they’re playing to a packed 10,000-capacity Alexandra Palace. Granted, it’s not their show – they’re actually the main support for Canada’s progressive metalcore crew Spiritbox – but the fact remains they’re a band whose ascent could well see them in arena-sized venues in the future.
With their meat-and-potatoes hardcore, openers Stray From The Path couldn’t be much further from Periphery’s ultra-technical, unpredictable weaving and winding wall of riffs. But the New York band’s ultra-aggro stylings charge the atmosphere in Alexandra Palace to a barely suppressed electric buzz. As Periphery’s set opens with the careening Wildfire, it looks like that momentum will be maintained, their juddering guitars…
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