Color us confused about the concept and/or execution of this video, but fuck us running. We love love love Dillinger Escape Plan . The New Jersey band's latest album, Ire Works , is out now. Dudes are on tour for a whole bunch of dates in eastern Europe but will be joining up with Warped Tour in July. (mp3) Dillinger Escape Plan - Panasonic Youth Godspeed!

DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, THE BLED, HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW, FALL OF ENOSIS (Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th) Forget about Kemado Records being the most divisive thing in American metal. The Sword, Danava, and Saviours all seem to have as many haters as they do supporters, but Dillinger Escape Plan take the cake when it comes to the ability to both repel and attract heavy music fans. Many cant stand vocalist Greg Puciato, who sounds like Mike Patton yet is built like a quarterback. When hes screaming, hes even less original, undermining the bands experimental song-structuring with status quo metalcore. [...]

Game Show Host (John Cleese): Mr. Voles, I understand that you claim that you wrote all those plays normally attributed to Shakespeare. Voles (Michael Palin): That is correct. I wrote all his plays and my wife and I wrote his sonnets. Host: Mr. Voles, these plays are known to have been performed in the early 17th century. How old are you, Mr. Voles? Voles: 43 Host: Well, how is it possible for you to have written plays performed over 300 years before you were born? [...]

Devin Townsend I've published 22 pieces since my last update a month ago. I've also started to write for Pitchfork . Both are somewhat ridiculous propositions, I realize, so I don't even know where to start. Just look at the sidebar and see if anything appeals to you. If you think all that will take a while to read - imagine the time it took to write it. I'm particularly proud of my Landmine Marathon live review. It's the [...]
by crustcake gerf (NYC) Minutes after last week's 'Flick Friday' went live Headbanger's Blog premiered the new (and first) video from Oakland, CA's Saviours . A tip o' the hat to all involved for allowing the video to run the full length of the song (five minutes and forty eight seconds, to be exact). Much like the song itself, the video for "Narcotic Sea" (directed by Dante Della Maggiore) is all over the place. From trippy Tron-evoking digital grids to epic landscape shots to straight up performance [...]
Brooklyn Vegan reports that Mastodon will be joining the "Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour": Mastodon has announced plans to tour with the supremely dubious named "Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour", providing support for (ugh) co-headliners Slipknot & Disturbed, as well as Machine Head, Dragonforce, The Red Chord and many others. Tentative dates are below... The 'many others' includes Sevendust, Airbourne, Five Finger Death Punch, 36 Crazyfists, Black Tide, Suicide Silence, and Walls of Jericho. Yikes... Alright, let's go about this in a methodic fashion. First, the 'pros': [...]
Arguably the weakest song on the new album Ire Works. I do like the horns but seriously, the song structure is amature and lacks the complexity of previous efforts. Tis sad, but I do hope this helps gain more fans for extreme music . (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Bonus MP3: Like I Love You(Justin Timberlake cover) Tags: extreme music , free music , hardcore , mathrock , metal [...]

OK. So I know that I haven't been posting very much in the past few weeks, but freelancing has picked up! Fortunately, I still have 12 things that might interest you, even though they're metal (save for two of them). I just did these alphabetically so my brain didn't explode. Aeon - Rise to Dominate / Metal Blade Aeon - "Godless" (Metal Blade 2007) [...]
I could try to write something profound that would explain some of the choices on this list, but I'm not going to. Instead, here are albums 20-11 on my 50 favorite albums of 2007 list. 20. Feist - The Reminder ( Cherry Tree ) MP3 | One, Two, Three, Four This is a beautiful and enchanting album of absolutely fantastic warm and airy Parisienne Americana (whatever that means) on which Leslie Feist's vocals are subtle, fragile, [...]

What you'll find below is a list of our "top" 15 albums released in 2007. What does this mean? Favorites? Bests? Both, yes. These are the bests of our favorites. The most favorite-bests. We worked together as a team to come up with a list we both agreed on, fought and clawed for our favorites, and had to let go of some of them for the greater good. Ultimately, we're extremely pleased with the list we've come up with. So, after you check out the teaser list below, have a look [...]

T he Dillinger Escape Plan has made their version of a pop album but don't worry. You almost certainly won't be hearing this one tearing up the airwaves or MTV. From Calculating Infinity to Miss Machine and now to their newest record Ire Works The Dillinger Escape Plan somehow seems to always top themselves. Incorporating elements of glitchy IDM breakcore, jazz, art-punk, proggy pop rock, and (yes) brutally chaotic mathcore, the band moves from idea to idea like a junkie popping pills. As technical as ever The [...]
VOTE RONALD THOMAS CLONTLE FOR MAYOR OF NEWBRIDGE! "Every time I go into myyyyy dungeon, The Orioles are playing in McCarren Park ..." -- Tom, serenading the Man From Another Era "I know, it drives me nuts how popular Metallica are now with kids." -- Tom, joining Spike in his disgust at the heavy metal favorites "A denim salesman wouldn't dress a mannequin in denim as much as he was dressed in denim that day at Altamont." -- Tom, criticizing Marty Balin's attire at the infamous 1969 [...]

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Mouth of Ghosts (Relapse 2007) The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works / Relapse There was a palpable sense of excitement when news first spread that The Dillinger Escape Plan had recorded the follow-up to 2004's Miss Machine earlier this year. That album brought out an art in the brutality of their systematic deconstruction of tech-metal that was less obvious on the seminal Calculating Infinity , and seeing what would come next had me intrigued. Though I have come to [...]
Tomorrow, The Dillinger Escape Plan unleash new sounds after some lineup shifts; Streetlight Manifesto keeps ska alive; Legacy is cashing in big time with reissues of Danzig's early catalogue (which you should have already you metalhead) as well as some Johnny Cash and Black Crowes back catalogue; The Hives have a new one after three years; Shout Factory is reissuing John Lee Hooker's first
Tomorrow, The Dillinger Escape Plan unleash new sounds after some lineup shifts; Streetlight Manifesto keeps ska alive; Legacy is cashing in big time with reissues of Danzig's early catalogue (which you should have already you metalhead) as well as some Johnny Cash and Black Crowes back catalogue; The Hives have a new one after three years; Shout Factory is reissuing John Lee Hooker's first
Random Thought #3 - I was walking a dog today and I called for it like so, "Dinky! (clap clap)" ...it then dawned on me how bizarre it would sound if there was no dog around. Starting tomorrow, I will listen to nothing but metal for a week straight. No rap, indie rock, Jonah, or Bjork . No Miles Davis with coffee, it will now be Mastodon with my coffee. No Iron & Wine to put me to sleep, now it's Isis that'll be putting [...]