Dillinger Escape Plan

The Dillinger Escape Plan are ...

A creation merging new-school hardcore,  progressive metal, and free-jazz, the furious din of The DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN is the perfect embodiment of intensity, cathartic rage, urgency, and forward thinking.

Even though some people may be turned off by their vocals and theyre chaotic nature i think this may be one of the best new prog bands around. I havent seen anyhting about them on this webpage, and i strongly believe they deserve a spot, they just may be the new face of prog. The individual members are both extremely good and innovative on their insturments,...the song writing is new and original. The band has released 2 full lenghts and 3 eps-incuding one with master of the thorax Mike Patton (faith no more, mr bungle, fantomas). The band experiments with odd time and key signatures,  and uses polyrythms,, which puts them into the math rock genre

download something by them (try, panasonic youth, when good dogs do bad things, or calculating infinity(thats SO prog)) tell me what you think,,.,itd be interesting to see the feed back from decidley prog members about this band.

contrary to popular believe they are an extremely tight band and play well together

Definitely not Trendy Trash.  They proved they could deliver songs that didn't sound like songs on Calculating Infinity and also confirmed their technical prowess.  However Miss Machine is an example of what music has to offer if you can be bothered to work out how to express it outside of 3 chords or without having to wear 2 pounds of eye shadow. 

I'm not sure how prog it is either....what does it matter, it's a cool concept, great musicianship and evokative...get's my vote, I'm utterly impressed.  keep it fresh....Listen to the comments on the 'Is Prog Rock Dead' discussion, it's about doing what you do.....just nice when you it's done innovatively.

 

I also saw them live about three years ago, and they were so bad that they got booed off the stage.

Granted I've not heard their more recent stuff, but what I heard back then certainly wasn't prog, it was barely even music.  And this comes from a guy who digs The Mars Volta.

Well, and obviously i can't judge their more recent offerings, when I saw them (was that at the same place as you Jim?), they showed NONE of those qualities, they WERE just thrashing randomly at their guitars, I don't know, maybe they are more refined nowadays, but that doesnt change the fact that at the time they were godawful and didn't seem to have a clue what they were doing.

they are added? wtf? thats ridiculous. not even remotely progressive. random orchestrated noise. i love hardcore and i love prog but i hate this horrible band. too much credit is given to this band. i mean youd think since i like both genres that this hardcore supposed prog band would apeal to me but this is just bad music any way you look at it.

well since i have alot of musical background, and a current music major ihave an opinion of what music should be iguess. i guess noise to me is music to someone else. but you have to agree adding them is harsh.

I already voiced my opinion in the other DEP hating thread fantastically entitled "you've got to be kidding..." but it should be said again that Dillinger is progressive by all means and it saddens me that so many progressive music fans fail to see that.

I'ne heard some of thier music, and it warrants my vot for prog.  Not my cup of tea though.

Hehee, I love how pretentious some of my older messages sound here .