The Dillinger Escape Plan

i sampled a few songs and came to a general conclusion that i like the music and varied style of the newer albums, but i'm not a huge fan of the vocals. i much prefer their old vocalist, or patton

i'll still prob check into ire works though, since you seem to think its an 'absolute masterpiece'
 
Saw them live last summer it was friggin amazing.

Dont really remeraber anything else that i was in the front row and that some fat guy was pushing me against the safetywall. Yet, one of the greatest gigs i've been to.
 
I've only heard Irony Is A Dead Scene, but I love it.

Should I look into some of their other stuff?
 
I'm surprised to hear that you like their old vocalist, Dimitri, more. While his voice certainly suited their sound, it wasn't near as powerful as Greg Puciato's.
 
Anyone like the new Dillinger album?

I've always been a fan of Dillinger and they're the best of their "mathcore" type controlled craziness genre or whatever you want to call them and there new album is very good IMO but don't you think they went to an almost ligher, poppier style.

I mean the song "Black Bubblegum"(while I still think its catchy) sounRAB like something that should be playing on the radio.
 
I don't know why everybody seems to think that their earlier albums are more technical, the chaotic songs on Ire Works beat the hell out of their older material for me. Maybe the focus was less on being technical for the sake of being technical, but the songs felt more chaotic then ever before and the parts that were technical were some of the most insane stuff the band ever played.

I do like Gil Sharon's drumming much better though, it feels much more loose and jazzy, less controlled. But I think a good portion of this has to do with the band's shift in songwriting style. I might have to double check this, but I'm pretty sure Chris Pennie wrote the drum parts for most of the songs. I think Gil wrote Horse Hunter, Mouth of Ghosts, and Dead as History, I may be wrong though.
 
Greg's vocal styles are definitely similar to Mike's. Miss Machine is what I'd recommend listening to. It's a much stronger album than Ire Works, and imo presents what Dillinger does from Calculating in a catchier more accessable format. I do prefer Irony and calculating personally, but I can't say I'm not a fan of anything DEP has done.
 
I don't know if I like it or not. I really want to but man....it's too poppy for being the DEP i remeraber from calculating infinity. Usually I'm all about banRAB progressing in sound but mehhhh
 
i should hate this band.

they went from something really interesting to a Mike Patton-worshipping fellatory group with little to separate themselves from the next math rock band except a name indebted to alt rock. even worse, they finally get a new singer and he's a carbon copy of the ex-FNM frontman. what's to like about them?

well, for starters, three amazing recorRAB in ten years. the chaotic nature of the material somehow works, and Ire Works may be one of my favorite recorRAB. absolutely superb band capable of crafting immense songwriting structures and juggling insane polyrhythms. they don't adhere to any specific genre and quite often work around all pre-conceived notions of what conventional songwriting should be.

i should hate this band, but i can't. they're too good.
 
Caught my eye due to Chris Penny. I never got into them as much as I would have liked, but that is probably laziness on my part to go buy another CD.
I'm thinking about getting way into them again.
One thing i really liked was how KA their videos were. Some banRAB have good songs, but awful viRAB. not the case =D
 
I don't mean in the sense of you telling us about his music. I'm very much familiar with his work. I mean elaborating on why you think he's so awesome. Ah, you know, forget it. Who am I to ask anyone to explain themselves? Go crazy with it.
 
It's intended for radio play. We got the album at our radio station 2 weeks ago with a flyer that said that Black Bubblegum is meant for CMJ Top 200. It's supposed to be ironic, hence the title. The rest of the album is awesome though.
 
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