Forgotten Songs of the 21st Century: Dillinger Escape Plan
Forgotten Songs of the 21st Century: Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan have burst onto the scene in the last few years as one of the most devastatingly fierce hardcore rock/metal bands around. With every release, they seem to get thicker and louder. In some ways, everything came together on 2007’s Ire Works and one of their best songs ever, “Black Bubblegum.”
Starting off with a drum machine intro, it almost sounds like you’re gonna hear a new wave song or electro or some other shit; but then the real drums come in and suddenly, the bands bursts out of the speakers and vocalist Greg Puciato begins singing in a voice that can only be described as Mike Patton taken down a notch. The song is like grinding metal matched with sixties pop and that is the best way to accurately describe the song.
By the time the chorus comes around, the song basically explodes into full-on metal with the band syncopating perfectly behind Greg. Then all of a sudden, everything breaks down into just a choral of voices which gives the band enough of a breather that once everything comes back in, the band is amped and charged to roar to the finish line still sounding fresh and alert. It’s more than a sin and a shame that the song was basically ignored upon its release. But listening to it today and even years in the future, it is clear that the DEP are one band that can only get better with time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqXVBeEuwLU
The Dillinger Escape Plan have burst onto the scene in the last few years as one of the most devastatingly fierce hardcore rock/metal bands around. With every release, they seem to get thicker and louder. In some ways, everything came together on 2007’s Ire Works and one of their best songs ever, “Black Bubblegum.”
Starting off with a drum machine intro, it almost sounds like you’re gonna hear a new wave song or electro or some other shit; but then the real drums come in and suddenly, the bands bursts out of the speakers and vocalist Greg Puciato begins singing in a voice that can only be described as Mike Patton taken down a notch. The song is like grinding metal matched with sixties pop and that is the best way to accurately describe the song.
By the time the chorus comes around, the song basically explodes into full-on metal with the band syncopating perfectly behind Greg. Then all of a sudden, everything breaks down into just a choral of voices which gives the band enough of a breather that once everything comes back in, the band is amped and charged to roar to the finish line still sounding fresh and alert. It’s more than a sin and a shame that the song was basically ignored upon its release. But listening to it today and even years in the future, it is clear that the DEP are one band that can only get better with time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqXVBeEuwLU
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