The Dillinger Escape Plan

The Dillinger Escape Plan is a mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The band performs a fast-tempo, technically proficient style of music popularly known as mathcore. The band recorded their first EP with Relapse Records in 1997 entitled Under the Running Board. Two years later, their album Calculating Infinity was met with great acclaim from both underground and mainstream press. The band gained notoriety in the hardcore scene for the intensity of their performances, which have incorporated light shows, fireworks, fire breathing, and other special effects.