The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board (1998)
Why is this the only photo I can find of them in the Dimitri Minakakis era?!
SPOILER ALERT: THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN COME BACK SWINGING LOUDER AND ANGRIER THAN BEFORE! At a short running time of just seven and a half minutes, the band beats the shit out of you relentlessly, almost making the most complicated instrumental work sound like childs play as vocalist Dimitri Minakakis screams over it like a serial killer with a sore throat, perfectly complimenting the explosive, unpredictable nature of the music with his own devilish shrieks and growls. He does NOT sound like someone you want to meet in a dark alley on the way to Barnes & Noble to purchase a hardcover version of "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes" because you were a dumbass like I was and didn't know that despite Scott Cawthon endorsing it and co-writing it, it's non-canon to the games, so you essentially just paid for fanfiction! THAT'S SOME HORSE SHIT! NO, I'M NOT MAD. DADDY'S JUST FRUSTRATED
If you buy the re-release of this album, you get a bunch of live tracks that sound pretty alright that make you wish you were there more than anything else, but you also get a unique bonus track: A cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" that's HILARIOUS AS SHIT! Of course it sounds nothing like the original because that's just a given, but vocalist Dimitri Minakakis has a silly back-and-forth part with this unknown female vocalist that turns into a finger-snappin' number, and it's just so ridiculous that it makes you wonder what the hell these guys were snorting to give them this idea. Whatever it was.. No, I'm not going to make a "I want some" joke, KEEP ME THE HELL AWAY FROM THAT SHIT!! It sounds like it'd liquefy my brain and make me get an erection anytime I see a girl with a calculator!
7/10
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