Our Own Little Hall of Fame

 

1^st inductee Calculating Infinity   The Dillinger Escape Plan

 

 

            As a follow up to Jesse Lee’s article on there finally being a good issue of Decibel magazine, I agree but can only take one gripe with the issue. Dark Tranquility for the hall of fame, sorry fellas, but I don’t think so. They have a couple decent albums and that’s being generous, I.E. I don't like their views on what makes into a hall of fame and what doesn't. I have thought this for a while being an avid reader of Decibel I only half agree with their hall of fame inductee’s. So guess what?,  I am making my own hall fame and each month I will be inducting what I consider to be hands down classic albums.   We will start with our first inductee Calculating Infinity by The Dillinger Escape Plan.

 

            Ok first of all if you have never heard this album, where the fuck have you been? It is an utter assault on your sense of hearing. The album opens up with “Sugar Coated Sour” and right away you’re not sure what’s going on, but you like it. Frantic riffs and drum beats flood your speakers and Dimitri Minakakis screams about god knows what but repeats the phrase “Did I Stutter” three times. After that flood of tweaked out metal, my personal favorite “43% Burnt” bursts through with a hardcore like riff followed by a wave of ridiculous calculated craziness, understandable clear phrases on this album are few and far between, but you do catch Dimitri screaming “spit on yourself, your so beautiful” which is just a great a line.  I won’t do a song by song breakdown down here because that would be boring, so instead I’ll jump to highlights, which this whole album is, but more or less my personal favorites on the album. The song “Destro’s Secret” is a classic, brutal as brutal gets, chucky fast riffs, short and to the point and ending with the phrase “Sun Dripped Devil Scratched Out My Eyes”, the imagery alone is enough to make you want to wet your bed.  Next up is “The Running Board” fantastic and frantic and mathy, everything you would want and expect out of this great band, quite possibly the best put together song on the album.  The rest of the album just kind of melds together into this ball of awesome confusion, simple at points then it takes you in a variety of different directions and leaves your head spinning. Until they reach “Variations on a Cocktail Dress” a song that clocks in at 7:56 which by this albums standards is a fucking opus. Great song totally different then anything else on the album and really shows their diversity.

 

            And if Decibel magazine (assuming they would ever read this) has a problem with our version of our Hall of Fame they can truly lick my taint, because of the crap they let into their Hall of Fame. Cheers.

 

Line up The Dillinger Escape Plan of Calculating Infinity

 

Ben Weinman-  Guitar, Synth, Bass

Adam Doll- Bass

Brian Benoit- Guitar

Dimitri Minakakis- Vocals(only full length that features him)

Chris Pennie- Drums