Music News - The Dillinger Escape Plan
20 July 2015 - 0 Comments
After five studio albums and countless tours around the globe, The Dillinger Escape Plan has earned much respect among fans and critics worldwide. With accomplishments such as coverage in mass media from the Rolling Stone to the New York Times, Billboard chart status, and performances on network television such as Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Dillinger Escape Plan is often named one of the most important bands to have immerged over the last decade.
Dillinger’s mind-bending meld of metal, rock, experimental ambience and melody first reared its head with a 6-track EP on hardcore indie Now Or Never Records, quickly followed by Under the Running Board EP on Relapse. The band earned a reputation as a fearless act on the live stage, committing their minds, bodies and spirits to the exhibition and visceral release of performance and often brutalizing stages, gear and themselves along the way. Calculating Infinity became the gold standard for the emerging "math-core"/"math-metal" movement, earning a place in author Martin Popoff’s "Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". Kerrang! included it in the "100 Best Rock Albums of All Time" and later presented the band with their Spirit of Independence Award.
The band’s second full-length album, Miss Machine, blew the doors open, cementing TDEP’s legacy around the world. The album’s songs began the creative partnership between co-founder/ songwriter Ben Weinman and singer Greg Puciato, both of them joined on the road for many months preceding the record by long-time bassist Liam Wilson.
Intense physical performer Weinman was named one of Spin’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, AP’s Top 10 Guitar Slingers and Guitar World’s Top 25 Cult Guitarists. Puciato, whose similarly uncompromising presence and versatile vocal ability knows few boundaries, was #1 on Metal Sucks’ Top 25 Modern Metal Frontmen and included in Revolver’s Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time.
The band’s collaborative nature persists, with members of Dillinger forming "super-group" projects like Giraffe Tongue Orchestra and Killer Be Killed, with musicians from bands like Jane’s Addiction, Deftones, Mastodon, Sepultura, The Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age and many more, both on-stage and off. Weinman is a film composer, sought after remixer and co-writer/performer for artists as diverse as Kimbra and Wyclef. He’s spoken to students at Loyola University and was featured on the cover of Guitar World. Puciato’s band The Black Queen features producer Josh Eustis, touring guitarist of Nine Inch Nails. He’s guested with Deftones, Brazilian EDM act Mixhell and metal merchants Soulfly.
Their latest album, One of Us is the Killer, is the band’s defining work, conjuring the mindboggling chemical combinations found within their earliest missives of mathematical bombast while pushing forward into dense, atmospheric radicalism. Weinman, Puciato, Wilson and drummer Billy Rymer in top form, emphasizing the band’s fierce independence, staunch individualism and loyalty to an artistic unique vision that has long followed them on-stage and off.
Ben Weinman – Guitars
Greg Puciato – Vocals
Liam Wilson – Bass
Billy Rymer – Drums
Kevin Antreassian – Guitar
The Dillinger Escape Plan New Zealand Tour
25th of August 2015 - Auckland – Kings Arms
26th of August 2015 - Wellington – Valhalla
Doors open at 7:30pm. First acts will be on at 8pm sharp.
Tickets available now from http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/ and Valhalla.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan Videos
"Happiness Is A Smile" Offical Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUP9E5jJrr4&feature=youtu.be
Prancer & When I Lost My Bet (Live @ GoldenGodAwards):Prancer & When I Lost My Bet (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXHCTCsmXg
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