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WON’T YOU BE THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’S “NEIGHBOR?”

 Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 10:30am by

Hey, lookit that! Our pals at Metal Injection posted some fan filmed footage of another new DEP song, Option Paralysis, which comes out next year.

So now we’ve heard two new songs, neither of which sounds like the poppier material on Ire Works. And while the mathcore shit is great, I really, really hope the band didn’t ditch that whole Faith No More thing they had going on on that album – ’cause that shit was a great, too, and I’d argue that there’s room for both the melodic and the chaotic in DEP’s music.

-AR

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  • RockOutWithMy…YouKnow

    Can’t fucking wait to see them tonight!!!!!

    • chris

      they are absolutely slaying on this tour, have fun. saw them at the crazy donkey on the 4th, great set, they tore the shit out of the place. of the 8 times i have seen them, it was definately on of the top 3 performances i have seen from them.

  • http://www.thejamminjabber.com thejamminjabber

    Please, Dillinger, give me my balls back. Thank you.

  • Aaron

    Seriously I’m not expecting much after Ire Works but they’re still a fun band to go see live and the new material seems pretty decent. You need to keep in mind that their softer songs never translated well live so I’m not all that surprised to see them mostly putting out the heavier tracks from their new work to see what sticks right now.

    Personally I think that it’s probably going to be about a 70/30 split between brutality and beauty on the new record. I can see them heading a little bit away from the more progressive territory they had started to reach on Ire Works for a few reasons. One big thing to remember is that Ire Works was still written when they actually had a talented drummer in the band not just a session musician covering what Pennie had already laid down.

    I’m interested to see what the first DEP album without Weinman/Pennie behind it will sound like. I’m just pretty sure it’s going to be a shit rehash without anything interesting going on and a whole bunch of hilarious sexist and violent lyrics by that dork Puciato crying about girls as he desperately tries to sing like Patton again. (And I think Irony Is a Dead Scene will always be the best thing DEP put out)

    • jason

      That’s actually not true. Pennie left and Weinman demo-ed the majority of the songs for Ire Works on a drum machine, which Sharone learned to play for the recording.

      • Aaron

        I’ve read in a few interviews that a good chunk of the demoing had already been recorded by Pennie beforehand as well as the drum machine stuff being written by him. Weinman has outright said the biggest problem with finding a replacement was that no one really had the chops to handle the insane shit that Pennie writes… and now he’s in Coheed and Cambria. There is no fucking justice.

        Anyway I’m really not trying to sound like one of those stuck up “I only like their old shit” fans I’m actually a big fan of Puciato’s vocal delivery on occasion, I still think his lyrics are laughably goofy and wish he could come up with a subject besides date-rape and forced abortions to write about. Not because I’m offended but because it’s just hilariously creepy how fucking horrible his lyrics are. Basically I just can’t see anyone filling the creative gap that Pennie left and so far the drum work in these songs just doesn’t have that controlled intricacy that really represents the DEP sound to me.

        Hell I could be wrong they are just shitty concert recordings after all and I’ll try to reserve judgment but I’m not going to be losing my shit if the album comes out completely fucking bland and stale. (which is what I’m expecting at this point) I’ll also apologize if I’m way off base and they pull another Miss Machine or Calculating Infinity out of their asses.

  • Andrew

    I have a feeling they just want to keep to the more chaotic stuff live. They didn’t play Black Bubblegum either time I’ve seen them, the closest they came being Milk Lizard. I expect classic Dillinger weirdness to prevail.

  • chris

    dillinger is easily the greatest heavy band of our generation.

    • Aaron

      Incorrect, Spice Girls.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Bullard-Jr/500191336 Tony Bullard Jr

        I’m with Aaron. Did you see Spice World? Blew my mind.

  • bnope

    Exciting. I remember my friends in high school being afraid of Calculating Infinity because they didn’t understand it.

  • rickyslate

    Anyone seen this? I think it’s an instrumental/intro to Mona Lisa either way pretty good quality and SOUNDS SICK:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w8jtQUTkRo

  • rich

    what i think is going to happen is that option paralysis is going to be a more seamless blend of the more “poppier” side and the more “math core” side of them. In “Miss Machine” there is an absolute separation in song style or experimentation or whatever you want to call it from their more traditional roots. in “Ire Works” it blends much better, and I will have to disagree with some of you in the poppier songs not translating live, because they absolutely SLAY, the more poppier songs bring more dynamics to the overall set making the overall show a better experience. So on Option Paralysis, I think we are going to to see a more mature and well written album than they have ever released. But i will also have to agree that “Irony Is a Dead Scene” will never be topped, ever. The last time i saw them they played when good dogs do bad things and it sounded amazing.
    Pennie can never be duplicated, but thats what makes some of those albums so unique, and what makes the band unique, because the style of Dillinger’s music is interpreted completely different on the drummer’s perspective making each album a unique and ultimately a constant progressive from one album to the next. Dillinger simply cannot be stopped, they cannot stop kicking ass.