Earlier this month, the Dillinger Escape Plan played their first show since their 2017 breakup, reuniting onstage with OG singer Dimitri Minakakis at Pomona, California's inaugural No Values festival. Last night (June 21st) in Brooklyn, the Jersey mathcore trailblazers played the first proper headliner of their reunion run, celebrating the 25th anniversary of their groundbreaking debut album, Calculating Infinity, with a teeth-rattling, head-spinning 17-song set.
The band — rounded out by founding guitarist Ben Weinman plus fellow Dillinger alums James Love (guitar), Liam Wilson (bass) and Billy Rymer (drums) — also broke out cuts from their first two EPs, and as a special surprise, their cover of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy," which appeared on the group's 2002 EP with Mike Patton, Irony Is a Dead Scene.
The show culminated in a performance of Calculating Infinity's concussive, band-defining mosh-starter "43% Burnt" and towering fire-blowing by Minakakis.
Photographer Kevin Wilson was in the house to catch Dillinger's full set — check out some of his standout shots, as well as the setlist, courtesy of Setlist.fm, below.
TDEP's Calculating Infinity 25th anniversary run continues tonight and tomorrow night for two more shows at Brooklyn Paramount, before the band take the reunion to Tilburg, Netherlands, and Chicago in August.
The Dillinger Escape Plan 6/21/24 setlist:
Destro's Secret
Sandbox Magician
The Running Board
The Mullet Burden
Weekend Sex Change (first time since 2017)
Variations on a Cocktail Dress (first time since 2011)
Sugar Coated Sour
4th Grade Dropout (first time since 2004)
Proceed With Caution
I Love Secret Agents
Calculating Infinity (first time since 2017)
Jim Fear (first time since 2017)
Come to Daddy (Aphex Twin cover)(first time since 2017)
Monticello
Clip the Apex... Accept Instruction (first time since 2006)
Van Damsel (outro)
43% Burnt
