From their early days in the late-90’s as short-haired college students delivering hyper-complex thrash to audiences of surly, boorish long-haired metalheads, to performing with Nine Inch Nails on the pioneering electronic band’s farewell shows, The Dillinger Escape Plan have merely one prerogative: to go forward in all directions simultaneously.
Their groundbreaking debut full-length, ‘Calculating Infinity’, is inarguably the essential technical-metal talisman for the 21st century, melting hardcore’s blinding rage with a musical vision that made most progressive-rock bands sound positively lazy by comparison. Between this debut and their most recent release, ‘One of Us Is the Killer’, DEP maintained their patented extremity while exploring electronic textures, jaw-dropping flirtations with mainstream metal that further enforced Dillinger’s desire and ability to take their music wherever the hell they wanted. The band found inspiration in underground glitch and break core electro, as well as indigenous music genres, in a world seemingly overrun with metal core bores and screamo trend-hoppers. The Dillinger Escape Plan has consistently found resonance with listeners and ‘One of Us Is the Killer’ marks the beginning of yet another trajectory in the DEP mythology to further challenge their fans’ loyalty.