Whether he likes it or not, Misha Mansoor is one of those players who has modernised metal guitar for the 21st-century. “That’s a lot of responsibility to put on me!” he protests. But it happens to be true.
He and his fellow Periphery guitarists, Jake Bowen and Mark Holcomb, have been at the vanguard of contemporary progressive metal, augmenting the art-form, twisting it around new rhythms, recontextualising electric guitar tone for the digital era and taking it into the realms of a quasi-genre that people call djent.
