For a decade the prolific progressive metal drummer, educator, and entrepreneur has been powering Periphery’s wild time signatures and blazing riff s. We asked the sticksman all about the groundbreaking band’s first self-released title. MD: Where was Hail Stan recorded? Matt: Our guitarists, Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, and Mark Holcomb, recorded their parts at Misha’s place in Dallas, Texas. Our singer, Spencer Sotelo, recorded his parts at his own studio in Maryland. And I recorded all the drums at Magpie Cage Studio here in Baltimore. I had our old bass player and producer, Adam “Nolly” Getgood, who’s not in the band anymore but mixed our record and is still involved, fly out here and engineer the drums. It took eight days to record the drum parts. We took our time to get it right. MD: What was the writing process like? Matt: We took off all of 2018 from touring […]