CONCERT REVIEW: SEVEN)SUNS Live at Joe’s Pub


My first encounter with SEVEN)SUNS was two weeks into 2023 at La Suspendida, the Jazz-Metal-Opera brainchild of Kilter and William Berger, a massive undertaking in which the string quartet played a vital part. (Editor’s Note: read our review here.) Wait – violas and violins in metal? Of course. Connoisseurs of the progressive would expect violin in bands like Ne Obliviscaris, but the less familiar may be surprised to find strings in heavier, speedier bands like Fleshgod Apocalypse. While such symphonic metal may not be for everyone, let’s not pretend the haunted wailing of orchestral instruments has no place in metal.

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Sumerian Comics and The Dillinger Escape Plan Team Up For Brand New Graphic Novel “One Of Us Is The Killer”


 

Dillinger Escape Plan, by Meg Loyal Photography

 

Sumerian Comics announced today One Of Us Is The Killer, a brand new graphic novel inspired by the 2013 fifth studio album from mathcore band, The Dillinger Escape Plan and from Rock & Roll Hell creators, Sam Romesburg and Ben Roberts, visionary artist Greg Di Angilla (Rock & Roll Hell), and colorist Warnia Sahadewa (Doctor Who).

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Stream The Dillinger Escape Plan’s New In-Studio Session For BBC Radio 1


The Dillinger Escape Plan recently took a break from their European tour to perform a special in-studio session for BBC Radio 1‘s ‘Rock Show With Daniel P Carter‘ at Maida Vale Studios. Continue reading


The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer


Dillinger-Escape-Plan-One-of-Us-Is-the-KillerShall we start by getting the superlatives out of the way first? One Of Us Is The Killer is the finest record that The Dillinger Escape Plan have released. Period. It is a record so good you keep pinching yourself that this isn’t just some kind of weird extreme music dream where everything you love about this type of music arrives all at once and in beautfully realised fashion. One Of Us Is The Killer is a record of such blistering, visceral power that it will have you screaming your lungs out, dancing like a maniac and generally throwing yourself around your room with carefree abandon at the sheer bloody marvel before you.Continue reading