5 Bands That Could Be The New Dillinger Escape Plan
4. The Armed
The Armed is a somewhat left-of-field choice, given their relatively recent arrival to the scene. Formed out of Detroit in the late 2000s from the ashes of Slicer Dicer who carried with them a strong and energetic live reputation, these guys had their brushes with mathcore royalty since the get-go.
Converge's Kurt Ballou helped mix their debut album These Are Lights, and they're joined by former Dillinger Escape Plan and Coheed & Cambria drummer Chris Pennie for the follow-up EP, Common Enemies.
The band then continued their momentum with the Young & Beautiful and Spreading Joy EPs in 2011 and 2012 respectively, before closing 2013 with a split, teaming with fellow Detroit aggressors Tharsis They. Dedicating 2014 to their sophomore full length, The Armed released Untitled in 2015 to high critical acclaim and even higher levels of tongues in cheeks.
The apparent musical equivalent of A.D.D., a live album was released in 2016 so that the brutality of the crushing live shows could be enjoyed by the family. Having their roots firmly entrenched in punk, bouncing their erratic time signatures with d-beats and gang vocals, the band are young and hungry and are already back in the studio for some form of follow-up.