'And this tiny little thing on it caught my eye: a little Dillinger logo somewhere in the collage that just looked basically like the logo that people know now - the 'flag' logo. The Dillinger Escape Plan 'Miss Machine' 12' vinyl-Available on on Coke Bottle Green with Rainbow Splatter, and Opaque Yellow. 'Right around that time, someone had made a Dillinger Escape Plan skate deck, and it was covered in all kinds of crazy patterns and things,' he remembers. I was like, 'Dammit, now there's nothing that identifies us, image-wise.''Īnd then, like a message from the universe, the skateboard appeared. 'It was, 'Do we change gears, now that we've got a new singer? Do we go for a new kind of imagery? Do we stick with the old one?' And I was always like, 'Why should we change this? Why don't we continue to build on it?' But I just kind of got out-voted. 'There was a debate going back and forth,' he recalls. But that’s not all, as their 2004 album MISS MACHINE can certainly be called a genre-defining.

DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Miss Machine (G erf en) FAITHLESS No Roots (Arista). Their fierce mixture of Hardcore, Noise and Jazz or in short: Mathcore - has earned them a place in the Hardcore Hall of Fame. store play copies, posters and Signer pillowcases (yes, Signer pillowcases). However, with a new singer on board and a new album in the offing, Weinman found that he was the only band member who wanted to hang on to the old DEP visual scheme. The Dillinger Escape Plan, named after the public enemy number 1, John Dillinger, make our ears bleed since 1997. I always loved the idea that, when you see the intro of a James Bond movie, you know it's a James Bond movie, you know what I mean? So I thought that this way, you'd immediately know it was a Dillinger album when you saw it.' We did it for Under the Running Board, which was our first label release with Relapse Records, and we did it with our first full-length album, Calculating Infinity, and then we did it with the Mike Patton EP, Irony Is a Dead Scene. 'And on a number of our early records, the covers all had these letter-boxes with some kind of image in the middle. 'I always felt like it was important to have some kind of branding identity, a stylistic thing that just sort of identifies you,' Weinman explains. The logo's origins can be traced back to 2004, when DEP were preparing to release Miss Machine, their second full-length album and their first with vocalist Greg Puciato. Indeed, the real story behind the legendary math-metal band's iconic logo is far less intense than the yarn Weinman offered up, even if it did actually involve a skateboard.

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