News•April 17, 2019 7:09 PM ET•5,378 views

Periphery album debuts in Top 75

The new Periphery album, Periphery IV: Hail Stan, has debuted at No. 64 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 9,600 in the United States. Meanwhile, the record bowed at No. 9 on the Top Albums Sales chart, No. 4 on the Hard Rock Albums chart, and No. 1 on the Independent Albums chart. Periphery released the album via their own label, 3DOT Recordings, the band's first record to not be released by Sumerian Records. It's also the first of their albums to debut outside of the Top 50 on the Billboard 200 since their 2010 full-length, self-titled debut. On the other hand, they topped the Independent Albums chart for the first time in their career. For comparison's sake, Periphery's previous album, Periphery III: Select Difficulty (2016), sold 14,850 in its first week and landed at No. 22 on the Billboard 200. The band's 2015 pair of albums, Alpha and Omega, debuted at No. 22 and No. 25, respectively, and sold a total of roughly 35,000 copies. Interestingly, Sumerian founder Ash Avildsen had this to say last year with regard to Periphery leaving his label: "I love all you guys, [but] unless you write bona fide fucking hits and you're rolling to radio, I don't believe your new record will sell more than what you've done on Sumerian because I have pride in what we do and I know the value we bring to any band especially a band like that, with everything we do to promote and market and creative."

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anonymous 4/17/2019 4:19:26 PM

Clutch's last three albums debuted at 11, 15, and 16 on the Billboard 200. fck the haters.

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anonymous 4/17/2019 4:26:06 PM

AILD 8, 10, 10 with a grammy nod. clutch sucks no one listens to funk metal

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carveyournamein 4/17/2019 4:58:36 PM

Who?

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anonymous 4/17/2019 6:21:39 PM

Sumerian not getting paid like mothers that have deadbeat dads to deal with.

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anonymous 4/17/2019 7:04:17 PM

While the group as a whole is amazing...walking away from Sumerian...a mistake.

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anonymous 4/17/2019 7:35:07 PM

There's way bigger bands selling less than that. & they are keeping that money so it probably pans out to the same thing as being on a big indie label.

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anonymous 4/17/2019 8:01:01 PM

Now they can quit their jobs hanging Sheetrock

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anonymous 4/17/2019 11:49:29 PM

People that listen to Veil Of Maya are stoked. Zzzzzz.

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nohero 4/18/2019 3:46:33 AM

^this

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anonymous 4/18/2019 4:49:47 AM

Zao wonders who Periphery is.

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anonymous 4/18/2019 6:56:09 AM

LOL at the clutch comment. Everyone who is like " Oh, bro they sold out the Harmony Theatre"... yeah... because you live in a fly-over state....

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anonymous 4/18/2019 7:28:36 AM

Clutch opening for Zao

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anonymous 4/18/2019 8:31:36 AM

While the group as a whole is amazing...walking away from Sumerian...a mistake. ^How is cutting out the middle man a big mistake? This article clearly states they're in the green

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anonymous 4/18/2019 10:46:37 AM

Periphery sucks and so do all of you.

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anonymous 4/18/2019 11:25:37 AM

I would rather hang out with Justin Lowe, Ride with the guy from Cave In, or listen to Periphery than listen to Clutch.

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anonymous 4/18/2019 11:58:44 AM

There's way bigger bands selling less than that. & they are keeping that money so it probably pans out to the same thing as being on a big indie label. ^^^ exactly

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anonymous 4/18/2019 12:02:59 PM

with everything we do to promote and market and creative. with everything we do to promote and market and creative. with everything we do to promote and market and creative. with everything we do to promote and market and creative. with everything we do to promote and market and creative. with everything we do to promote and market and creative. with everything we do to promote and market and creative.

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anonymous 4/18/2019 2:13:57 PM

I would rather hang out with Justin Lowe, Ride with the guy from Cave In, or listen to Periphery than listen to Clutch. ^ Lol

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anonymous 4/18/2019 2:18:05 PM

Did someone say deadbeat dad? Rob Fusco here. I got kicked out of Defcon someone please let me be in their band, you can pay me in food.

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anonymous 4/18/2019 3:42:11 PM

Ash sucks

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anonymous 4/18/2019 5:02:57 PM

would rather slam my c*ck in a hot oven than ever be subjected to clutch or funk metal ever again.

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anonymous 4/20/2019 11:32:15 AM

The singer from Norma Jean at Hell Fest 2003 is stoked for this.

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