News : Periphery & Animals As Leaders join forces for AUS tour
US Progressive metal band Periphery have announced they’ll be returning to Australia next year for a short, but oh so sweet tour. Periphery spilled the beans this morning on their official Facebook page, informing their legion of fans of the Australian tour starting next year. As a bonus, US djent heavy weights Animals As Leaders will be supporting them on the upcoming Australian tour.
Animals As Leaders last toured Australia in 2012 with Between The Buried and Me.
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PERIPHERY has defied the boundaries of conventionality, bringing new life to the metal scene. Their meteoric rise to the upper echelon of the metal world will be in full display when they return to Australia in January/February 2014 joined by ANIMALS AS LEADERS.
PERIPHERY push the envelope with an innovative brand of engagingly complex metal. The band’s latest offering, Periphery II showcases the band’s richest and most alluring metal to date. ‘‘Periphery is clearly onto something huge.’ – Metal Injection
ANIMALS AS LEADERS bring their instrumental progressive metal grooves and were hailed ‘the future of creative, heavy virtuoso guitar playing’ by Steve Vai himself.
PERIPHERY and ANIMALS AS LEADERS will join forces for the djent tour of the year.
For more information go to: www.soundwavetouring.com/artists/periphery-animals-as-leaders
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