Calculating Infinity by The Dillinger Escape Plan

Pros: Brilliant on every level for what it is and what it is not.
Cons: None.

It was the first, it's still the best, and it will never be dethroned. The Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Calculating Infinity' is just as much a masterpiece as you've heard from everyone else times a thousand for good measure. It, for all intents and ...

Pros: Astonishingly intense, interesting music.
Cons: Astonishingly intense, too short.

I really like extreme metal. I thrill to Origin's hyper speed drumming and Cannibal Corpse's brutality. I love Meshuggah's wall of aggression and Fear Factory's precision assault of mechanical mania. The Dillinger Escape Plan is nothing like any of these...

Pros: everything
Cons: nothing

The Dillinger Escape Plan are the best thing out there today. I say thing because they are better than everything not just other bands. I saw them a few days ago and when they started playing my jaw dropped to the floor and stayed there for their...

Pros: Originality, technicality, and great musical ability.
Cons: This album is not an easy listen.

To introduce myself to this entire site, I wanted to come out and write a review about my favorite album of all time, "Calculating Infinity". Which, not surprisingly is by my favorite band, The Dillinger Escape Plan. I was first introduced to this band...

Pros: Time changes, technicality, original and creative style
Cons: A difficult album to grasp and understand for most people

The Dillinger Escape Plan is a very original band that fuses many different elements of heavy music into their complex web of instrumentation. This group's music is very hard to grasp for some people because of the constant technicality and time...

Pros: The skill and chemistry of the band, the songs, the emotion
Cons: Hard to listen to for a few people

This album is absolutely overwhelming. It totally blew me away. The skill and uniqueness of this band is staggering, and you will be totally unprepared for this the first time you hear it. It is possibly the best album I have ever bought, or even...

Pros: Fast. Angry. Powerful.
Cons: Dosen't give your other cd's a chance to be listend to!

Techinical, yet strikingly heavy, furious, fast, intense. All these words sum up this record pretty much. Great riffing and time changes, with a little bit of jazziness, make this album incredible to listen to. I'll have to say, this album is ground...

Pros: Great guitar textures, amazing bass and guitar interaction, heavy riffs
Cons: could be considered noise to some unfamiliar with the genre

I will admit it, the first time I listened to Dillinger Escape Plan's "Calculating Infinity" I thought it was nothing more than noise. But one day I decided to give the CD a second listen.

Upon this second listen I found some things I...

Pros: the whole CD
Cons: none

The first time I heard this CD, it was in my friend Vincent's car. The song he put on was "43% Burnt", and it really messed with my head (but in a good way). It became my #1 priority to buy this CD.

Trying to describe this band's...

Pros: time changes
Cons: almost everything on here

I am a fan of heavy music but the dillinger escape plan is anything but heavy music. They have a bad production and no real dynamics. What this album sounds like is a terrible attempt at trying to create technical music. You can tell when you hear this...

Pros: Unparalleled originality, extreme jazz-metal, a new bar has been set
Cons: Cons? You must be joking cause there aren't any!

Trust me when I say you have never heard a band like The Dillinger Escape Plan. I have listened to heavy music for 20 tears and I can say that I have never been so blown away by a bands dynamics and intensity. Guitars that rip your head off switch tempo...

Pros: new, bold, aggressive, and totally off the wall
Cons: nothing

I first heard of Dillinger Escape Plan while reading an issue of Guitar World. After reading the article, I was then compelled to purchase the CD, "Calculating Infinity." From beginning to end, this CD is just chock full of technical precision...