The Dillinger Escape Plan

Since 1997 · United States

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Calculating Infinity (1999)

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Calculating Infinity crams jazz-fusion time signatures, hardcore speed and sudden, jarring silences into songs that rarely pass three minutes. "43% Burnt" set the template, Ben Weinman's guitar lurching through tempo after tempo while Dimitri Minakakis screams over the wreckage. Nothing repeats long enough to settle, and the precision is what makes the chaos land. It's the record most often credited with founding mathcore.

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The Dillinger Escape Plan

Calculating Infinity · 1999

The Dillinger Escape Plan formed in New Jersey in 1997 around guitarist Ben Weinman, and their 1999 debut, Calculating Infinity, set hardcore's speed to the stop-start time signatures of jazz fusion. Their aim, Weinman has said, was to give people the feeling the original hardcore bands like Bad Brains and Black Flag once gave him, pushed further than those bands went.

Greg Puciato became their singer in 2001, and over the next records the band folded in melody, electronics and pop hooks without losing the violence; their shows became famous for how dangerous they felt. They split in 2017 after Dissociation, on their own terms.