Video of The Dillinger Escape Plan - Limerent Death (Official Audio) Who better, then, to conduct Dillinger's exit interview than the Metallica drummer, now a seasoned interrogator of his fellow musicians as the host of It's Electric!, his own Beats 1 online radio show? Needless to say, Weinman and Puciato - Metallica fans since they were kids - were down, so we asked Ulrich and he gamely agreed. Count among those famous fans Metallica the thrash masters handpicked Dillinger to play 2013's Orion Music + More festival, and their co-founder Lars Ulrich has publicly sung DEP's praises as early as 2009. They announced their imminent demise last year, with the release of their swansong, Dissociation, followed by a whirlwind farewell world tour, which took the pioneering freakcore outfit (guitarist and lone remaining original member Ben Weinman, singer Greg Puciato, guitarist Kevin Antreassian, bassist Liam Wilson and drummer Billy Rymer) leaping off balconies and destroying instruments all the way to the end of 2017 - and to the end of the band, in the form of three late-December funeral-pyre shows at NYC's Terminal 5.ĭillinger's maniacally adventurous sound and peerless daredevil live performances won them diehards within both the underground and the mainstream, including members of Nine Inch Nails, System of a Down and the Deftones, bands that all took them out on tour. The (now defunct) site Fear Nothing Bootlegs lists the concert as one of it's releases, how much of the concert was made available is unknown.Twenty years, 14 members, six albums and innumerable scars, broken bones and shocked-and-awed audiences later, the Dillinger Escape Plan are fucking dead. Guitarist Ben Weinman also implies that there is an audio recording of the show which includes Puciato gagging as he sang but this has also not surfaced. Two videos from the set is available on YouTube but it is unknown if the rest of the set was recorded or just these two songs was broadcast as part of highlights. Puciato gave an interview for their performance at Reading 2016 retelling the story.Īt least part of the performance was broadcast on the British terrestrial television channel ITV2 as part of their coverage of Reading 2002. While their show was regarded as one of the best Reading performances of the decade, it nearly resulted in The Dillenger Escape Plan being banned in the UK for violation of public decency laws. I just thought I’d show this to you, so you’ll recognize it later on in the day,” referring to the quality of the music at the festival and the bands that were on before them. He was quoted as saying, “This is a bag of shit.
Their first performance at England’s Reading Festival in 2002 made national headlines when in the middle of the show, vocalist/frontman Greg Puciato defecated in full view on-stage, put it in a paper bag (some accounts say he did it in a towel) and threw it into the audience before smearing the rest on himself. Out of their multiple performances and tours, one show stands out as among the most shocking in rock history. They are well known for their outrageous and often destructive live performances. The Dillinger Escape Plan were a mathcore band based in Morris Plains, New Jersey.