The Dillinger Escape Plan
Aren’t bands supposed to mellow out as they get older? Clearly nobody told this New Jersey metalcore quintet: The Dillinger Escape Plan is even more intense fifteen years into their career. Frontman Greg Puciato looked the spit of the celluloid Batman’s next nemesis, the steroid-pumped Bane: all muscles, powerhouse moves and inhuman screams, while sole original member Ben Weinman thrust his guitar as a weapon when striding over audience members’ hands. With their trademark jazz-metal intricacy and extreme heaviness, alongside a welcome outing for the brilliant ‘When Good Dogs Do Bad Things’, commercial success thankfully showed no sign of softening Dillinger’s edge.
Concorde 2, 25 April 2012
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Nick Aldwinckle
The first band, called Milk White Throat I think, really blew me away, I never heard of them before but they were quite a surprise, I ll keep an eye on them from now on, as you can tell they re gonna rise pretty high soon. Three Trapped Tigers were awesome too and Dillinger just teared the place apart, what a great gig.
More please!!