The Icarus

I love Periphery, although I'm not a huge fan of techno or dubstep or anything like that--so while I very much enjoy their music I only enjoyed a couple of the included remixes. A remix is a remix though, I really only dislike one of the songs...Oh, Eureka! was a huge plus though. I really love the Rough Clip Vocals track from the earlier album and this version is excellent. Formidable vocals.

For an EP, this is great. It has enough new material to make it worth the low price and enough alternate material to make it fulfilling as a whole package. After all, it's an EP. Most EPs have 5 songs. Icarus EP has 9. 3 are remixes, 1 is the original song. That leaves 5. Jetpacks Was Yes v2.0 is a re-imagining, and a good one at that, and the other 4 are all new originals. For less than $10, no Periphery fan can really complain.

For an EP of B-sides and remixes, it's quite good. Just don't expect a gross improvement in songwriting, since that's not its purpose. At least, it's a convenient way to have the debut's bonus tracks in physical format for those of us outside of the UK and the sphere of iTunes' digital influence.The instrumental opening song is decent, but it's too short to really build to much. "Eureka" is possibly their most Meshuggah-ish song yet, in instrumentation and vocals. This is, depending on your opinion, either very good or bad. Its silly outro brings to mind Attack Attack! in its inappropriateness."Icarus Lives," with its dirty guitar opening and solo break reminiscent of Cynic, is nice to have without the annoying "Ragtime Dandies" tacked on the end from the album version. Amusing as it was the first time, it became quickly tiresome and ruined the flow of the otherwise excellent debut. The new recording of "Icarus Lives" has more natural sounding clean vocals and fuller harsh vocals than the original, both of which are definite improvements. The entrance of the vocals are also more dynamic. As far as the remixes are concerned, the Bulbous remix fails miserably, repeating "I'm neither angel nor a demon spawn" until it becomes tiresome, completely stripping from it the awesome contrast that should follow in harsh vocals. The Zedd and Petey G remixes use a lot of electronica and dub-step to re-invision the song, and they pull it off pretty well."Jetpacks Was Yes" is treated with some lyrical changes/additions near the end and also benefits from the more natural sounding clean vocals of Spencer Sotelo. Regarding the DVD, it's all very well to have their two music videos, but the necessity is rather diminished due to YouTube. The brief Making of Icarus is interesting - it's nice to see a little bit of the band's personality. We get the advice "don't smoke cigarettes," so they're obviously good guys.Now we can look forward to their upcoming two albums in 2012. At this rate, they might become even more prolific than Scar Symmetry.3.5/5

Periphery's remixed a few of their songs from their first album, plus a couple that are new. It's a different take on some of the songs from the first record. Recommended if you're a fan and want to hear something different mixed in with the originals.

This EP has Icarus, and a bunch of remixes. Icarus rocks. The remakes are total dance club snoozers. If I wanted to listen to monotonous 4/4, I would not have got into djent.

Excellent product

Surprise for me, I both all discography :DDD

If you're like me, and were completely blown way by Periphery's self-titled debut album, then you're hungry for more. The 'Icarus EP' release offers a collection of previously unofficially released songs from the 'Bulb' Misha Mansoor side project, and redone songs from their debut. In both cases, the songs feature at least newly recorded vocals, if not completely new instrumentation (i.e. Jetpacks Was Yes! V2.0). There are also 3 remixes on this release as well, of the song Icarus Lives.The end result is a collection of songs that you may have heard before, but are all improved upon. 'Frak the Gods' alone is absolutely mind blowing, and makes this well worth the price of admission. The rest of the songs are tweaked upon beyond their original compositions, or like Frak the Gods, feature vocals since prior versions were just instrumental tracks.Highly recommended to sate the appetite of any Periphery fan until their next full release.