Dillinger Escape Plan: ‘One of Us is the Killer’ [Review]
On maps of old, any foreign or unknown lands lying outside the safe and friendly confines of the familiar might have been labelled ‘here be dragons’. When drawing up a map of Mainstream Music Land, that foreboding sentence could easily be replaced with ‘Dillinger Escape Plan’.
If you know DEP already you know exactly what to expect – sledgehammer-to-the-groin brutality, hyper-punk energy, and seemingly impossible technical precision. ‘One of Us is the Killer’ is relatively laid-back by Dillinger standards, featuring blissful low-key sections and riffs that err toward the more conventional areas of the rock / metal divide – but nonetheless, behind the skilful songwriting lies the traditional Dillinger-level aggression, giving a beautifully distorted tint to sections that would sound standard and cliche’d in the hands of lower-quality bands.
In sum, ‘One of Us is the Killer’ stands as a perfect rebuttal to those critics who claim Dillinger only know how to “do random fast stuff”, and possibly their best single-oriented song since ‘Milk Lizard’. Beautiful, in its own way.
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