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The Dillinger Escape Plan

American metalcore band known for dissonant, complex, and genre-blending music.

Their debut album Calculating Infinity (1999) is considered a landmark release in hardcore punk and heavy metal.[1] The Dillinger Escape Plan's career included six studio albums, and their final performances were a three-night run at Terminal 5 in New York City spanning December 27–29, 2017.[1][2]

Quick Facts

Origin
Morris Plains, New Jersey, U.S.
Genre
  • Mathcore
  • metalcore
  • experimental metal
  • progressive metal
Years active
1997–2017; 2023–present
Spinoff of
Arcane
Label
Relapse; Party Smasher
Current members
  • Ben Weinman
  • Liam Wilson
  • Billy Rymer
  • Dimitri Minakakis
  • James Love

Facts from the source article.

Making and release

The Dillinger Escape Plan's first live performance was as a support act for Overcast, organized by friend Matt Backerman.[3] Their self-titled six-track EP was released in April 1997.[4] Relapse Records offered the band a multi-record contract after their early demo and post-tour reputation.[5] Founding vocalist Dimitri Minakakis departed in 2001 to focus on art, photography and graphic design.[5]

Greg Puciato joined the band after submitting recordings of "43% Burnt" and officially debuted at the CMJ Music Festival in October 2001.[6][5] While viewing a documentary about the 1930s bank robber John Dillinger, a friend named Matt Makowski proposed the name "The Dillinger Escape Plan".[3] With more than 100,000 copies sold, Calculating Infinity made The Dillinger Escape Plan the top-selling act on Relapse Records during that period.[5][1] The Dillinger Escape Plan put out their final album, Dissociation, in 2016, and before its release they stated they would break up once the touring for that album concluded.[2][7]

What the cited sources add

The Exclaim! article notes that the physical toll of being in the band sets them apart from other heavy metal acts.[5] Weinman enrolled in the psychology program at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.[5] Pennie and Weinman wrote the vast majority of early material collaboratively and referred to each other as "musical soul-mates".[5] The MusicRadar interview states that Weinman became "desensitised" to extreme music and searched for inspiration outside the metal scene.[8]

Weinman described the band's sound as "organised chaos" where every note has its place and is intentional.[8] The Radiometal.com interview describes Converge as The Dillinger Escape Plan's "brother band".[9] The Blabbermouth article reports that the 2024 reunion show will feature the band playing Calculating Infinity in its entirety for the first time with original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "The Dillinger Escape Plan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Walschots, "The Dillinger Escape Plan: Hazard Warning", June 17, 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "The Dillinger Escape Plan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announces Reunion Concert With Original Singer DIMITRI MINAKAKIS", Blabbermouth.net, December 12, 2022; "THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announces Second Reunion Concert With Original Singer DIMITRI MINAKAKIS", Blabbermouth.net, December 13, 2022; "The Dillinger Escape Plan - Announce Reunion Concert With Original Vocalist Dimitri Minakakis", Metal Storm, December 14, 2022 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "The Dillinger Escape Plan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Apostolopoulos, "Dillinger Escape Plan Biography", Sing365.com, January 18, 2011; "band history", Dillingerescapeplan.org; Apostolopoulos, "Dillinger Escape Plan Biography", Sing365.com, January 18, 2011; Apostolopoulos, "Dillinger Escape Plan Biography", Sing365.com, January 18, 2011; Farris 2011, p. 2:16:47; "band history", Dillingerescapeplan.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "The Dillinger Escape Plan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rosen, "Dillinger Escape Plan's Ben Weinman: 'We Never Want to Be An Assembly Line of Riffs'", Ultimate Guitar Archive, April 16, 2013; Apostolopoulos, "Dillinger Escape Plan Biography", Sing365.com, January 18, 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Natalie Zina Walschots, "The Dillinger Escape Plan Hazard Warning", Exclaim!, June 17, 2013. facts only, no text reused. exclaim.ca
  6. Wikipedia, "The Dillinger Escape Plan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hill, "Greg Puciato: "it felt really good when Dillinger split"", loudersound.com, 2022; Rowatt, "Dillinger Escape Plan on the early years, Mr. Bungle & more Flashback interview The Void with Christina", Voidau.com, 2008; Natalie Zina Walschots, "The Dillinger Escape Plan Hazard Warning", Exclaim!, June 17, 2013; Rowatt, "Dillinger Escape Plan on the early years, Mr. Bungle & more Flashback interview The Void with Christina", Voidau.com, 2008 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "The Dillinger Escape Plan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vice, "The Dillinger Escape Plan welcomes new guitarist", MetalInsider.net, June 20, 2015; Hart, "As Dillinger Escape Plan Breaks Up, Metalcore Loses One of Its Best Bands", New York Observer, October 19, 2016; "The Dillinger Escape Plan will enter the studio in November", Metal Insider, July 20, 2015; Massie, "The Rockpit interviews BEN WEINMAN DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN", The Rockpit, July 15, 2015; "The Dillinger Escape Plan to Take 'Extended Hiatus', Reveal More Dissociation Album Details", Loudwire, August 5, 2016; Bayer, "RIP en.wikipedia.org
  8. Lynham, "Ben Weinman talks Dillinger Escape Plan's origins, Dissociation and destiny", MusicRadar, September 29, 2016. facts only, no text reused. musicradar.com
  9. Metal'O Phil, "The crazies from The Dillinger Escape Plan", Radiometal.com, April 3, 2013. facts only, no text reused. radiometal.com
  10. "THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Announces Reunion Concert With Original Singer DIMITRI MINAKAKIS", Blabbermouth.net, December 12, 2022. facts only, no text reused. blabbermouth.net

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article The Dillinger Escape Plan (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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