The Dillinger Escape Plan were an American mathcore band formed in Morris Plains, New Jersey in 1997, built around guitarist Ben Weinman and famous for genuinely chaotic live shows. Calculating Infinity (1999) rewrote the rules for technical heavy music; Miss Machine (2004) is the other essential. Find The Dillinger Escape Plan vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
The Dillinger Escape Plan formed in Morris Plains, New Jersey in 1997. Guitarist Ben Weinman was the band's constant founding member and primary creative force. Early vocalist Dimitri Minakakis appeared on the debut full-length before Greg Puciato joined in 2001 and became the long-term frontman. The band built a reputation for relentless innovation and notoriously intense performances, and disbanded in 2017 following a final tour.
The Dillinger Escape Plan are widely cited as one of the defining mathcore bands, fusing metalcore, hardcore, jazz fusion, and avant-garde elements into dense, dissonant, rhythmically complex music. Their sound balanced extreme aggression with technical precision and experimental passages, influencing a generation of technical and chaotic heavy bands.
The band's Relapse and Party Smasher catalog has been reissued in numerous colored-vinyl variants, and Calculating Infinity in particular is a prized item among mathcore collectors. The final album Dissociation appears in special pressings tied to the band's farewell.
Listeners new to The Dillinger Escape Plan often start with Calculating Infinity (1999) or Miss Machine (2004). For related listening, see and .
