Under The Running Board
Dillinger Escape Plan
Engineer: Steve Evetts,
Producer: Steve Evetts
Relapse Records (USA), 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: RLPRR7022
EAN: 0781676702220
UPC: 781676702220
You save: 20%
Audio Mixer: Chris Badami.
When The Dillinger Escape Plan initially released the three-song EP UNDER THE RUNNING BOARD, the louder, faster, and crazier arms race that had temporarily been put to rest kicked back in with a vengeance. Dillinger's blistering technique and complex mathematical time-signatures were breathtaking. Only the raw physicality of their shows kept them from being pure metal scientists. Opener "The Mullet Burden" presents a rapidly mutating storm of fretboard heroics and bludgeoning riffs, "Sandbox Magician" twists and turns with the precision of a drill, and "Abe The Cop" stops and starts on a dime, sounding like nothing less than pure industrial manufacturing. The special 2008 anniversary edition adds on nine live tracks that prove the band's dexterity isn't studio-aided.
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Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape plan are a prog-metal juggernaut hailing from New Jersey. Formed in the late 1990s, the band underwent a seemingly non-stop series of line-up changes, one of which found the band testing out potential new lead singers via internet solicitations; yet this never stopped D.E.P. from releasing some of the most unique heavy sounds out there. Combing the power and fury of metal and hardcore with the unbridled love of noise and pure release that marks the most free and out sounds in avant jazz, D.E.P. have carved out a unique musical niche that expertly straddles heavy rock and the avant-garde, an area not unlike that covered by fan and occasional collaborator Mike Patton.
