Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works reviews
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| Avclub |
When drummer-songwriter Chris Pennie defected to Coheed And Cambria earlier this year, Dillinger Escape Plan was left with a mess on its hands. Founding guitarist Ben Weinman and company painstakingly scraped together Ire Works, the group's first full-length since 2004's bar-raising Miss Machine. The ache paid off: While not as epic as Machine, Ire Works is a fractured, ambitious disc that lulls and thunders with equal force. After some typical—though wincingly raw—math-metal in the form of "Fix Your Face" and "Lurch," the album hits its biggest surprise, "Black Bubblegum." As the name implies, it's a dark pop opus crawling with Greg Puciato's sultry snarl and haunting falsetto....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan might have helped turn metal/hardcore on its ear with the influential 1999 release Calculating Infinity, spawning a slew of imitators from Daughters to the End. But while musicians and fans continued to marvel at the record’s innumerable riffs, crazy time signatures, and solos, to their credit, the boys in The Dillinger Escape Plan were bent on broadening their sound. While many extreme metal fans like to praise the technical dexterity required of the sound, to convince all of them to embrace a gradual turn towards more accessible fare is a very tall order. Over the past five years, this band has continually thrown down the gauntlet to its fans, challenging them to accept the startling changes the artists had in store....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| After Miss Machine, Dillinger Escape Plan fans were divided. Many of the folks who were attached to the screaming mathematical metal of Calculating Infinity bailed on the band, disapproving of the experimental musical direction and the meathead appearance of new singer/screamer Greg Puciato. Open-minded listeners were excited about the progressive journey they were taking and many critics hailed the group as a true innovator of metalcore. Ire Works succeeds in many of the same ways that their previous album did, while branching out creatively....full text |
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