Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis

  On 4/2/2010 at 3:40 AM, modey said:

"i" is a masterpiece.

  On 4/2/2010 at 3:49 AM, jules said:

  On 4/2/2010 at 3:40 AM, modey said:

"i" is a masterpiece.

Ay. That ascending riff at 16.29 is the most insane thing any metal band has ever done! Imagine trying to remember that!?!

edit: loads of love for the final section as well, they always deliver with the doom vibes

i is a masterpiece but I love Obzen more, the riffs on Obzen, the energy, the guitar tone, the insanely ambitious percussion, I dont think that record will ever sound dated for metal

With meshuggahs more recent stuff, it's all written and programmed and then they try to learn it live. Some of which is not possible. At least from what I understand. I being the most experimental obviously

  On 4/3/2010 at 6:35 AM, jules said:

With meshuggahs more recent stuff, it's all written and programmed and then they try to learn it live. Some of which is not possible. At least from what I understand. I being the most experimental obviously

Yeah they never performed I live. They did do a large chunk of 'In Death is Death' though which was cool. Some fuckin monster shit in that, especially the first part. Probably the most ridiculous thing they do live though is 'Bleed'. Took Haake a year to be able to play those drums. First time they toured Obzen they only did the first half but they were out here a month ago and they played it from start to finish... fuckin unbelievable.

jazzband, haha just kidding, the double bass on bleed is so insane (amongst other things), beyond technicality that song is fucking fire, meshuggah is seriously the most ambitious metal band ever in most ways I would say, could be debatable but off the top of my head I would say they are hard to beat.

"i" was the only album as far as I know that they decided to leave the drums completely programmed, they composed it over the internet back and forth between most of the members. everyone in that band is a musical genius obviously. even the vocalist can shred, he played guitar on their first albums, but obviously any vocalist consistently staying perfectly in groove with all the weird hemolia and polyrhythm's has to know their shit.

I just saw Dillinger Escape Plan live last night. It was pretty fuckin intense. They're so entertaining to watch live. The fact that they can play that ridiculously fast complicated shit is one thing, but to do it while running and jumping and spazzing out all over the stage for an hour is nuts.

The first time I saw them (back in '04 after Irony is a Dead Scene, before Miss Machine but with Greg) they were the most psychotic thing I'd ever witnessed in my life. They went so intensely hard the entire time that I can't believe they could even play the music.

The problem with that is every time I've seen them after that it just seemed like a joke. Incredibly soft. It hurt me; they were so incredible the first time that I ranted and raved and got everyone to come see them the next time and they just didn't deliver in any way. Sure they may seem psycho to someone who hasn't seem them but that first time they were like a fucking atom bomb. It'll just never be the same to me cause I've seen that.

  On 3/26/2010 at 11:47 AM, the anonymous forumite said:

It's like you people never heard of their first album ten years ago. This album is a poor replica of that first album.

this.

DEP went really shit some few years ago.

Yeah, it didn't blow me away. Just seems a bit DEP-by-numbers. There's only one or two belting tracks per album these days...

  On 4/2/2010 at 3:40 AM, modey said:

 

"i" is a masterpiece.

 

The first two thirds of the track are really amazing. The ending part, not so much imo.