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Ten years ago yesterday (Oct. 14), the Dillinger Escape Plan released their final studio album 'Dissociation'. The band has also been teasing that they've played their last shows since reforming with Dimitri Minakakis. I consider myself lucky that I've see DEP with Greg Puciato TWICE within the span of a year...

And thank goodness I did, because truth be told, younger me initially thought they were too weird and all over the place... but then I saw them live in April 2013 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn as part of a free Converse Rubber Tracks show and "clicked". Not only was I blown away by how their performance was filled with batshit intensity - the type of chaos that previously only seemed unimaginable to bring to life - but also because the music perfectly soundtracked the insanity. Almost a year to the date later, I saw DEP again at Webster Hall in NYC, and it was just a insanely brilliant... these performances not only made me completely understand why everybody loved DEP so passionately, but also made me fall head over heels in love with them too.

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EnForcer - 2015 - From Beyond - From Beyond

He is walking among us

A wanderer in time and darkness

Crossed oceans of hours

Sleep and death are sister and brother

From beyond

He is caught in a death dance

Maelstrom of millennia

A child of the night

What he touches withers and dies