This might sound like sarcasm but I promise you it's not. This here is real art, a group of people rigging up some amps in a garage and playing their fucking hearts out. It's anarchic and conceptual in that way that all good punk is but most importantly it's real, real passion behind every instrument and every song, its art for arts sake, music for Music's sake, experience for experiences sake, and I wish there were more bands/gigs like this now.
Alex Sternberg there irregular sequencing and poly rhythms created a new canvas on which to create music. The equivalent of an artist painting with colors that we have never seen before. True pioneers and innovators (mostly ben).
True. DEP are the kind of artists who knew from the get go that they would never ever break into the mainstream with their abrasive math core sound. They were making music for music's sake knowing full well that they'd be lucky if they could make ends meet with their passion. That's the true artistic spirit. Unlike all the Ed Sheerans whores who were always aiming for the charts.
That would only sound sarcastic to someone who only listens to famous and established acts lol. There are a hundreds of groups of people "rigging up some amps in a garage and playing their fucking hearts out" every day all around the world, you can find so much great music by exploring below the surface, early Dillinger is nowhere near close to being the only band you can say this about
The first time I witnessed DEP was in dec of 1999 in albany NY. They opened for One King Down and Calculating infinity was still a new record. I was 16. I had no idea what the fuck was going on when they were playing. I threw all my money at them and picked up every release they had available on their merch table.
duude how awesome i would love having all that stuff. besides of course those magnificent moments. want a pic with all dillis shit. Aguante la puta madre!
Zach Carlin HAHA same! I saw them with... was it The Locust? I was so confused and that confusion excited me! Here we are years later, I've seen them several times since (Billy's first show at The Barbary, their Union Transfer stop early in the final tour) and was lucky enough to score tickets to the final show at Terminal 5 in NYC!
I've always wondered how this sounds so accurate, while Adam Doll seems to just be falling all over the place. But it's like he never missed a single note. Strange.
It was tough being a band in the late Nineties. Like, you had to clone just the one same guy to have something resembling a half-decently sized audience.
98 Dillinger sounds WAY more like skmethjng from the screamo scene than the metal scene. Like put this show next go Saetia pg99 angel hair etc. and it fits in like way better. They obviously changed their sound a lot by calculating. And then in my opinion completely changed bands with the next album. I think it’s sad they kept the name. Cause 98-2000 Dillinger was a completely different band than 2005 Dillinger
Ok,, THIS is how they looked when we used to gig together! I guess Ben did Stage right as well? Weird, never saw him overthere. Not in Reading PA. Dimitri used to just point in your face and scream at you like a foot away! My band was similar but a bit more Overcast and Iron Maiden influenced. We all ripped off Converge and Botch however 😅 If only that CD hadn't fallen in the bassist's car....
This is fuckin crazy. I grew up right down the street from here. I was probably doing some 2nd grader shit at the time a couple streets away. Now my band records at Kevin’s studio. Weird world.
Guys ripping their hearts and sweat there and the lamest people around them. If I've seeing this gig that time, I would have been fucking destroying everything.
I didn’t scroll down to far in the comments to see if anyone else mentioned this, but isn’t it weird that Ben is the only one not in a white shirt, and he was the only one left from the original members at the end?
A lot to process, so much. 1. Looks like their moms washed and iron their clothes before the show. I mean the whiteness! Tide detergent is strong in this video. 2. The cargo shorts, Hahahahaha. I remember how great were those years. You can't find pockets like that nowadays. 3. Probably It was really hard to process the music, specially because, for sure, all these guys in the crowd have the Limp Bizkit album at home. 4. Greg Puciato once was a skinny guy. YOU CAN DO IT!!! 5. Forever nerds musicians
The earliest footage is in my head watching them rehearse in John Fulton's basement. Grew up with these guys in Randolph, NJ. If we only had video on our cell phones. But then again, I think times were better before the internet and cell phones? 🤔
its kinda funny how Ben says recording calculating infinity was troubling for him in terms of playing (which I'm sure it was), but he also recorded on under the running board as well as played all the guitars on the S/T EP if I'm not mistaken. that stuff sounds really hard too lol
Dillinger never wanted to be "math core". Ben doesn't really know theory or even purposely write stuff "mathy". They put out stuff they wanted to hear that no one was playing and have consistently done that every EP and album release. They are the epitome of the idea of punk, unpredictable, energetic, rude, diy as fuck.
Early on violent energy! But sadly, like most all other grindcore bands got used to producers and management changing their style to appease the masses.
pretty sure it was always them writing the music through all of the stylistic changes, not on the initiative of 'producers and management'. I sometimes went through doubtful periods as to whether they were keeping their 'violent energy', etc, but I think it's foolish to think that at this point. they make amazing music and stuff have more brutality in a show than most bands around these days.
