"Ire Works" by The Dillinger Escape Plan

With Ire Works, New Jersey's Dillinger Escape Plan reinvent the term "prog." No, Dillinger haven't started writing 12-minute epics rife with keyboard leads. Rather, the band cram their breakneck rhythms, creepy choruses and abrupt car-crash polyrhythms into some of the catchiest three-minute anthems that extreme metal has ever seen. Electronic flourishes coat the understated metallic violence of "Sick on Sunday" and create entrancing textures à la Massive Attack. Meanwhile, "Fix Your Face" and "Milk Lizard" are the requisite brain bashers that Dillinger fans have come to love. "82588" has some brooding jazz guitar doodling that only sharpens the musical terror on the horizon toward the end of the track. Elsewhere "Horse Hunter" enlists the screams of Mastodon axeman Brent Hinds for a vocal marriage made in extreme metal heaven. The standout track "Black Bubblegum" melds some Nine Inch Nails grooves, Mike Patton-style crooning and a crazy time
	Published: 2007-12-03 Provider: Artist Direct