The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Dillinger Escape Plan (1997)

I have a Dillinger Escape Plan hoodie I wear pretty often, even in warm weather because I am a complete autist. I think if the band saw how ugly I am, they'd try to take it back.. OVER MY DEAD BODY!! And I fully mean that because these guys sound like they could kill the shit out of me!

"Kenny, even though I obviously know the answer because I'm bothering to read this, who are The Dillinger Escape Plan?" You ask me, with a beautiful curiosity in your eyes. The Dillinger Escape Plan? Well, they're a pretty noisy bunch of rowdy boys that kind of sound like a mash-up between Slayer, a calculator, and a bunch of cokeheads. Shit, I mentioned Slayer twice!! 

But jokes and cocaine aside, these guys can PLAY! Guitarist Ben Weinman does the most complicated shit on guitar effortlessly, sounding almost like a machine, and he's in a constant struggle with the other band members to be in the spotlight, but vocalist Dimitri Minakakis won't let him have it if he has anything to say about it, because he sounds so DERANGED throughout the entire EP! I don't know who or what made him so angry, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel the need to apologize to him for something that I didn't do.

The actual songs are actually composed really well without having to rely on the gimmick of "lol look how zany this is!!" like some mathcore bands do. The songs go through musical changes, such as the end of "Three For Flinching (Revenge of the Porno Clowns)" which might I add is a BRILLIANT title, where it turns into a hardcore punk song that occasionally slows down for just a moment to let the song breathe, but like I said, just for a MOMENT and then the band returns to beating the living shit out of their instruments and your eardrums, but I'll tell you somethin': I don't mind these guys assaulting my ears. Not one damn bit.

Things aren't quite as polished or written out as well as later DEP releases, but it's certainly chaotic as shit and bound to get you out of your seat and jitterbugging in odd time signatures. If you want a soundtrack to do cocaine and kill prostitutes to, listen to "Human Clay" by Creed. Once you get tired of that one, you can't really go wrong with this EP either!!

7/10 
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