Tag Archive: Dillinger Escape Plan


Huh… Starring Janet Leigh Are Kinda Breaking Up.

Filed Under: Another One Bites The Dust, General News, Tours and Rumors of Tours
Dec.20, 2010

I didn’t discover Canada’s Starring Janet Leigh until after my mathcore phase had been reaching a decline. Even at that point, I found them to be very interesting; more intense than Dillinger Escape Plan yet not annoying like Psyopus were. They didn’t hit my radar until The Number Twelve Looks Like You disbanded and their phenomenal drummer Jon Karel joined the SJL lineup. Not long after, there was word of new material in the works. This was towards the end of last year/beginning of this year.

Then fuck all happened in 2010 from this band. Now there’s an explanation: they’re calling it quits—I guess? I bet you’re wondering, “why the uncertainty in your tone, Jimmy? A break up is a break up!” Not if the official statement has anything to do with it:

“Due to recent member changes and a drastic shift in our sound, we decided it was only fair that Starring Janet Leigh go out in style with one last kick at the can through our homeland. There are a lot of bands out there that keep the same name when they are clearly no longer the same band, and we’ve decided to take a different route than that. We all love what we did with Starring Janet Leigh over the years and are sincerely going to miss it. The new album in the making is taking a very different direction than the previous release, but we’re sure fans of Starring Janet Leigh and fans of progressive metal will love it! Thanks to everyone who supported Starring Janet Leigh the years, it means the world to us. Be sure to make it out to one of the final shows if you can, this tour is gonna be a BANGER!”

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British Tech-Metal Studio Footage Two-fer: Architects and Red Seas Fire

Filed Under: General News, Upcoming releases, Video
Aug.30, 2010

This weekend, both Architects and Red Seas Fire have uploaded new studio footage for their respective upcoming albums. Check these bad boys out.

Architects completed recording their new album, The Here And Now, with Every Time I Die and Dillinger Escape Plan producer Steve Evetts. The album is currently due out early 2011 on Century Media. I hope it’s at least as good as 2009′s Hollow Crown was. 2011 is already looking up!

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Keith Buckley Is Pissed Off. And He Should Be.

Filed Under: Live, RAGE, Tours and Rumors of Tours
Jul.22, 2010

So I just stumbled upon this article written by Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley. It’s basically a big rant about the sad state of our sub-culture, where people with no talent can get together and call themselves a ‘band’, get a bunch of 14 year-old scene kids to be their fan base, get on warped tour and get rich because of their ‘music’. He even calls out a few bands by name, which I found enjoyable. I’m not really even a fan of Every Time I Die, but this is a great article and Keith makes some very good points. Check it out, unless you’re in love with Attack Attack! or some other similiar ‘band’.

-PM

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ECDEU’s Murmurs: Bromances

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Apr.30, 2010

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This is my new series of posts as of now as seeing that I wanted a new post. The last series was very random with posting and so this one will hopefully be weekly and consistent. Also, this one has less to do with anything but metal, but will actually deal with metal. So, enjoy!

Yes, welcome to the first post of ECDEU’s Murmur! If you know anything about anything, you know that Cynic is the best thing around right now (or at least that’s what I have been digging on for the past few weeks). If you know that Cynic is the best thing around right now, then you should know the song “Adam’s Murmur”, which by now, I would hope, that you have guessed to be the source for this series’ title. But other than having the common sense to love Cynic, why else name my series after that wonderful song? Well, this starts from a few weeks ago.

At Metalsucks.net, they have been posting a series called Metta Mind Journal, written by the lead singer and guitar player of Cynic, Paul Masvidal. These posts have been amazing. They are truly stepping beyond the normal blog post and stepping into the next genre of writing called novelism (which I totally just made up for the sake of flow). I honestly feel like if he just wrote a book of these little posts, the book would fly off of the shelves. I know I would buy a copy. I actually commented on one of his posts saying that he should write a book and sub-comments reveal that other Metalsuckers believe the same way I do.

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Vinyl Reviews: Option Paralysis

Filed Under: Reviews, Video
Apr.06, 2010

We already know about Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Option Paralysis. We gave this wonderful album a 5/5. But despite the album’s release two weeks ago, a problem over at Season of Mist caused a slight delay in the shipping of the vinyl edition of the album. But I finally got it yesterday, and it is glorious.

On the website, it said the album had a “Die-cut rotary sleeve.” I had no idea what the hell that was, so I was pleasantly surprised when I got a hold of it. I spun that thing for a good ten minutes.

I was disappointed that all the writing on the back was just the tracklist printed over and over again. I was hoping for some lyrics sheet to be included, but no such luck. As you can see, the artwork is also printed on the internal sleeve that’s holding the vinyl, which is neat. I’m used to it being just white paper.

The biggest surprise of all was the clear vinyl. The web page made no mention of special color, so I assumed it was black vinyl. Lo and behold, clear vinyl! OM NOM NOM DELICIOUS.

Also, you can hear the bonus track in the video, “Chuck McChip”. It’s a beautiful piano piece that I didn’t expect at all, and fits surprisingly well at the end of the album. A download card was placed in there with the album, and it is currently in my wallet hiding my debit card.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised with the packaging. I didn’t expect anything elaborate at all, and I got something this cool in the mail.

I give this vinyl release…

5/5

Yeah, I’m giving out 5/5 ratings all week. Suck it.

- JR

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Soulfly and Greg Puciato Tear It Up On “Rise of the Fallen”

Filed Under: Downloads, New music, Upcoming releases
Mar.26, 2010

Never been a fan of Soulfly, but this new song they have out now, “Rise of the Fallen” is pretty cool. If you don’t mind some heavy semi-nu-metal sounding groove riffs and electronic bleeps and bloops, you should give it a shot. What makes this track stand out, to me, is Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Greg Puciato doing lead vocals on the song.

You can download “Rise of the Fallen” here for free for a limited time. And from what I can tell, it’s not about the Transformers. If you don’t want to download it, check out the video below of it on YouTube, which may or may not be available by the time you get to it.

Soulfly’s Omen is due out May 25th on Roadrunner Records.

- JR

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Listen to Chinese Whispers

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases
Mar.06, 2010

New Dillinger Escape Plan song “Chinese Whispers” premiered on Full Metal Jackie last night. And just like every other internet radio premier or stream, someone rips it and uploads it to YouTube. Fuck yeah, Faith No More influenced Dillinger is always awesome!

Catch “Chinese Whispers” in higher quality on Tuesday when Metalsucks hosts the stream. We’re about two weeks away from this bombshell dropping on us all; March 23, via Party Smasher Inc and Season of Mist.

- JR

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The Dillinger Escape Plan Fall “Head Over Heels”

Filed Under: Live, Upcoming releases, Video
Feb.17, 2010

Apparently Dillinger Escape Plan played a Tears for Fears cover in Paris, France this past month on their European tour.

It’s too dark to really tell, but that’s Ben playing the keys. It’s a good cover, though it’s decidedly unDillinger, if such a thing exists. My only complaint is that Greg’s mic needs to be turned up. Damn sound guy needs to be fired. They should hire me. They don’t even have to pay me in cash. Just give me one and a half meals a day and I’ll take the job. Please hire me, Dillinger. I’m not joking. Dropping out of college to hang out and work with Dillinger Escape Plan? Sign me up.

In addition to the Tears For Fears cover, they played a new song, “Chinese Whispers” which sounds very rock-oriented and sounds like it’ll be one of the singles from their upcoming album Option Paralysis. Skip to 3 minutes in:

Oh man, that song is awesome. I can’t wait for Option Paralysis. It’s due out March 23rd on Party Smasher Inc/Season of Mist.

- JR

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Download Dillinger

Filed Under: General News, Live
Feb.15, 2010

What? Can it be?! Option Paralysis leak?!1one!

No.

That was cruel, sorry. I am in fact referring to the recent announcement on Greg Puciato’s Twatter that the Dillinger Escape Plan will, for the second year running, be playing at the UK’s Download festival.

This is kind of a kick in the teeth after twice missing out on tickets for the TWO shows they played in London last Friday (a huge point of contention between me and the greedy London dickheads who went to both shows and/or touted the extremely limited number of tickets for phat £££ – which I don’t have </qq>), but if any of you readers are UK based, this is a better reason than any so far to go.

Me, I don’t particularly like camping, and considering I wouldn’t/couldn’t pay the £35 (about $55) for Friday, I can’t see myself going in for this either. Deftones are the only other band so far I like, and unfortunately Download caters more towards the beer-swilling, unwashed metalkind than my tastes, so I can’t see it getting that much better. That said, last year they rocked Faith No More, Meshuggah and Opeth, and past years have seen Tool, Between the Buried and Me and SikTh. I’m not saying there’s nothing good, but the delights are few and far between, and they also do things like headlining My Chemical Romance, and give bands like Enter Shi(t)kari and Bring me the Horizon stage time, when let’s be honest, a smack on the nose with a rolled-up paper is much more deserved. Amiright?

Sorry if you like those bands. No, really – it must be terrible having your condition…

That’s all, anyway. I’m feeling bitter, which may go some way to explaining the tone of this post. There is a glimmer of hope, however. This means that Dillinger will be in the UK again this year, and a little bird tells me they might have some new tunes out sometime in the next couple of months?

TOUR! TOUR! TOUR!

If there isn’t one I’m gonna break Puciato’s legs. Yes I’m only 140 pounds, but I can take ‘im, just watch me!

- CG

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Coheed and Cambria Have A New Album Coming Out?

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases
Feb.09, 2010

And they’re already streaming a new song on their website?

Classy.

I generally don’t care about Coheed and Cambria all that much, to be honest. “Welcome Home” is a classic song and they stole Dillinger Escape Plan co-founder Chris Pennie and, in my opinion, under-utilize him. That’s about all I can come up with about them worth noting, I suppose. I’m not saying they’re bad, but I’m just saying I don’t actually care enough to follow them all that much.

So Coheed’s new song “The Broken” is the first single off of their upcoming album, Year Of The Black Rainbow. It’s a pretty good track, although I don’t see how they’re a progressive rock band. It seems pretty straightforward to me. I guess their music sounds and feels like progressive music without actually BEING progressive in any way. I’m gonna call them psuedo-prog from now on.

Listen to the new song here and you can either dig it or shrug your shoulders. Year Of The Black Rainbow comes out April 13.

- JR

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