Periphery III: Select Difficulty

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Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Periphery III Select Difficulty cover.jpg
Studio album by
Periphery
ReleasedJuly 22, 2016
Genre
Length64:06
Label
Producer
Periphery chronology
Juggernaut: Omega
(2015)		Periphery III: Select Difficulty
(2016)		 Periphery IV: Hail Stan
(2019)
Singles from Periphery III: Select Difficulty
  1. "The Price Is Wrong"
    Released: May 25, 2016
  2. "Flatline"
    Released: June 24, 2016
  3. "Marigold"
    Released: July 8, 2016

Periphery III: Select Difficulty is the fifth studio album by American progressive metal band Periphery. The album was released July 22, 2016 through Sumerian Records, and was produced by Misha Mansoor and Adam Getgood. [1] The opening track, "The Price Is Wrong", was nominated for Best Metal Performance in the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. [2] It is the last album the band released on this label. It is also the last album to feature bassist Adam "Nolly" Getgood as an official member of Periphery before he left the band in 2017, though he still returned on Periphery IV: Hail Stan to produce, engineer, and mix the album, in addition to contributing final bass parts.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Exclaim! 7/10 [5]
Rock Sound 6/10 [6]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 70 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [3] Calum Slingerland of Exclaim! praised the band's "drive to keep exploring out of their stylistic box". [5] Prog Sphere's Stefan Andonov stated that "Select Difficulty is by far their most diverse album, they have grown and have found a way to combine complex sounding vibe with the popular one." [7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Price Is Wrong"3:57
2."Motormouth"4:50
3."Marigold"7:20
4."The Way the News Goes..."5:04
5."Remain Indoors"6:10
6."Habitual Line-Stepper"6:52
7."Flatline"5:51
8."Absolomb"7:44
9."Catch Fire"3:54
10."Prayer Position"4:37
11."Lune"7:47
Total length:64:06

Personnel

Periphery

Production

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] 8
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 42
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] 86
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [11] 139
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [12] 22
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] 39
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [14] 102
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ) [15] 3
Scottish Albums (OCC) [16] 45
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [17] 43
UK Albums (OCC) [18] 57
US Billboard 200 [19] 22

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