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THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’S OPTION PARALYSIS COVER ART: WHAT AM I LOOKING AT, ANYWAY?

 Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 9:45am by

No, seriously, what the fuck is that? I honestly can’t tell.

I can’t wait to see this up close, or at least a higher-res scan… ’cause it looks to me like that picture is one of those pictures made up of lots of smaller pictures, and I’m dying to see what all those small pictures are of.

ANYWAY, Option Paralysis comes out March 23 on Party Smasher/Season of Mist. But the first single/opening track, “Farewell, Mona Lisa,” is available for download on iTunes as of today. I’ve been listening to a shitty bootleg radio-rip of the song for the past few weeks, but hearing it in considerably better audio quality… well, it’s like a whole new song. I love it so much. It’s like a perfect combination of crazy mathcore DEP and melodious FNM-esque DEP. I’ve just been listening to it on repeat all morning.

It’ll hafta tide me over ’til March…

-AR

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  • DemonicLemming

    The overall picture should be familiar to any student of anatomy and physiology (and no, I don’t mean the obvious one).

  • Zac

    It looks like an ear holding a knife. + The inner ear canal and drum, etc.

    • Facebook User

      that makes sense to me as well. because my ears want to stab themselves when they hear their shitty music too.

      • orbital

        +1 and fucking LOL!!

      • Dirtman73

        This from a person who admits they use Facebook. Way to stay irony-free, douchebag.

      • http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/ Alkahest

        OLOLOL IM TOO DENSE TO COMPREHEND SUCH COMPLEX MUSIC OLOLOLOL

        • TonyT

          ahahahah +1

  • Justin Sane

    dillinger escape plane?

    • DemonicLemming

      They’re feeling British today.

  • uhu

    from left to right: inner ear (exactly the same picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oreille_Interne.png) , ear with the descrition of the parts of it (also exactly the same picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Gray904.png) and a knife. they just took the images from wikipedia dude!!!

    • uhu
    • Zac

      Your links aren’t working.

      • Zac

        Wait… now they are.

    • http://myspace.com/duckbillz Duck Billz

      I am guessing they actually took the second image from Gray’s Anatomy, hence the file name on Wikipedia, “Gray904.png;” images on Wikipedia come from somewhere too, dude. Also, the first image you linked is obviously not the same as the one used in the album art.

  • Emil

    Yeah i just wish people outside US and UK could buy it, what the fuck dillinger ? Fucking shitty.

  • http://www.theblacklaser.net Joe The Wizard

    I’m not sure I can fully express the intensity of my apathy for this release. As far as I am concerned, the last great thing released by DEP was Calculating Infinity. Irony is a Dead Scene was an interesting one off, Miss Machine was bland in comparison, and everything since then has been utterly boring.

    Disappointing too since Calculating Infinity is easily one of my favorite records of 1999 which, along with Meshuggah’s Chaosphere, rocked my fucking world that year.

    • aids robot

      everything since = 1 album

  • Facebook User

    that picture sums up their music pretty well to me. a big discombobulated mess that makes no sense and has no meaning.

    • Meekal

      And yet, the fact that it IS actually something, only hard to percieve and made up of seemingly meaningless smaller parts. It is only as a whole that it begins to make any sense.

  • http://folkblackdeath.tumblr.com jc

    I realize a few people have already posted the answer…but COME ON?! How do you not see that it’s an ear + inner ear organs?

    • edSW

      because it also looks like a sperm that’s about to shank you.

  • feegore

    Looks like the cochlea and the canals

  • themasses

    Boo-urns! Hiss! They changed their logo. Oh wait, this ain’t Metallica, no one is gonna come up with such ridiculous things to complain about.

    • The Ghost of D. Boon

      Waddya mean that’s the same logo they’ve been putting on shirts for as long as I’ve been aware of the band.

  • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

    MS>>>>>DEEPTHROAT>>>>>>>>DEP

    Get

    Off

    The

    Nuts!

  • Chimp-0-Neg

    Well it’s definately a Dillinger Escape Plan song. And a good one. I think the single art is pretty cool too. Roll on March.

  • A

    The single art is better then the album art! I wish it wasn’t too late to switch it up!

  • http://lavidastrangiato.blogspot.com/ Jake Strangiato

    “Option Paralysis” is a pretty cool name for a title, but wasn’t one of their former members actually paralyzed?
    Wonder how he feels about that title…

    • http://myspace.com/duckbillz Duck Billz

      Adam Doll is momentarily featured in one of their recent studio update videos. I don’t remember if he is just visiting or if he is contributing musically, but he can be seen making the joke, “Now we can put the paralysis in Option Paralysis.“

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mujtaba-Al-Obidy/718012896 Mujtaba Al-Obidy

    AWESOME ALBUM TITLE, AWESOME ART WORK , the both are just at the point for what listening to DEP effect could be .. \m/ ,, cant wait for the album ,, Monalisa sound so fucken great

  • Kyle

    the album is already up for pre-order in the australian itunes w/ a demo version of mona…sweet

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hoefer/25511007 David Hoefer

    Farewell, Mona Lisa is great. How come Converge gets so much love and DEP gets the shit stick most of the time? DEP are way more creative and just as fast/technical. Only they don’t have the douche-punk attitude of Converge, I guess that’s pretty appealing.

    • The Ghost of D. Boon

      Huh? According to who? As much as I love both bands I’ll admit they’re both way overhyped, but DEP definitely gets more hype than Converge. Maybe with Axe to Fall they’ve drawn level among heavy-music types but DEP gets crazy hype outside of the typical metal community as well. Even Bob fucking Lefsetz in on their taint.

    • Marc

      because Converge didn’t fall off like Dillinger did after their first album. go figure. and that “douche-punk” attitude is every bit apart of Dillinger as it is Converge.

  • Con

    Artwork is as always with DEP pretty terrible, but i honestly dont give a shit when the music is as amazing as it is. Already love farewell mona lisa and good neighbour sounds fucking awesome too.

  • Sam

    In case no one has established this fact, the artistic style employed on the album cover is a mosaic. (Or a “picture made up of a lot of smaller pictures.”)