Dillinger Escape Plan: Ire Works Review
The Dillinger Escape Plan is a New Jersey mathcore band. Mathcore is a style of metal with fast tempo and a technical style according to Wikipedia. I have no idea what that means but after being exposed to the mathiness of Battles, I can tell you that “math” rock is too trippy for me.
So I stumbled onto this album while flipping around an issue of Exclaim!. They gave these guys’ latest album, Ire Works, a pretty good review. I also saw this album on a lot of online best of 2007 metal albums, thus I decided to give these guys a listen.
The album opens with the heavy death metal sounds of ‘Fix Your Face’ and ‘Lurch’. There was some crazy shredding in the beginning of ‘Lurch’. Then the mathy part kicked in immediately in ‘Black Bubblegum’. I didn’t like the vocals in this song very much but the song does have a catchy tune. The change in vocals from ‘Lurch’ to ‘Black Bubblegum’ was too much of a jump I think. ‘Sick On Sunday’ and ‘When Acting As A Particle’ are both just as mathy. They’re quite short and ‘When Acting As A Particle’ is instrumental, which flow quite nicely with angry growls of ‘Nong Eye Gong’. One track that stands out as a potential good metal song is ‘Milk Lizard’. It starts out fast, intense and furious but after a minute and half, the song breaks down to some piano and punk ish singing. The song then tries to bring the intensity back but breaks down again at around 2.45 minutes and ends with a punky sound.
Overall Ire Works is a decent album without much filler. I enjoyed what it had to offer.
Dillinger Escape Plan – Black Bubblegum
Dillinger Escape Plan – Milk Lizard
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Awful review, im not being biast because i like the band but the review saying death metal on fix your face FUCK OFF! also someone who takes wikipedia seriously….naaaa