The latest offering from The Dillinger Escape Plan is a riotous and dangerous cacophony of noise from the get go, and is just an awesome display of scream induced chaos, ad fiercely effecting music, which will be a frightening prospect in the live environment. It is unrelenting for the majority of the album, with a couple of brooding, haunting tracks mixed in to devastating effect, such as on the likes of Widower. Those brief moments aside those, this is DEP at their scintillating best, and sound heavy as hell.
In total, it is pure chaos across the board, and as a band they stay true to their sound, pushing the technical envelope as far as possible, and throwing in all manner of time changes, and jazz infused mathcore moments, that the purists will no doubt love. The musicianship is insane on this, and they are clearly second to perhaps none on the mathcore (jazzcore?) front.
For me, it lacks the melody that I would want to see in a truly great metal album, but that is not something you would ever want from DEP. You want them to be a ferocious beast, and dauntingly heavy. You want them to punch you square in the face, and allow their visceral screams and pummelling musical accompaniment to wash over you on listening to it. That is what they do best, and they continue that path with Option Paralysis.
It is DEP sounding just like DEP, and sounding like themselves alone, and for that, if chaotic music is your bag, this ticks every single box, and then some.
It is a solid release, but for me, to be truly great, needed some more tuneful moments in there.
For what it is 8/10
Personally 5/10 (as a DEP record only)
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