Exit Interview: The end of the Dillinger Escape Plan

It’s all over now: For two decades, the Dillinger Escape Plan tore down the seemingly exclusionary walls separating various music genres to create a furious synergy of their own design. While they routinely took metal and hardcore to new levels of extremity over the course of six albums and several EPs, Dillinger were the dictionary definition of danger when it came to live gigs, simultaneously enrapturing fans and confounding ER doctors. Now the band will finish their storied career with three dates (Dec. 27 - 29) at the New York City venue Terminal 5, joined at various junctures by Code Orange, Daughters and God Mother, as well as teaming up with Mike Patton for a one-time-only performance of their 2002 EP, Irony Is A Dead Scene. Last week, some middle-aged millionaire had the last interview with DEP braintrust guitarist Ben Weinman and frontman Greg Puciato. So we went through our archives to reveal one of the first interviews the duo did after announcing that their 2016 LP Dissociation would be their l