Trivia / The Dillinger Escape Plan

• Creative Differences: Greg and Ben's long-frayed relationship was all but stated to be one of the bigger reasons why they broke up the first time around. This was confirmed by Ben in an interview in 2023, where he called out Greg on his claims that the band routinely got offered massive amounts of money to reunite with him - to paraphrase Ben, they broke up both because he felt that he had done everything he wanted to do with Dillinger, and because he and the rest of the band were tired of Greg, and Greg's incorrigible clout-chasing and attempts to retroactively paint Dillinger as his band and himself as its creative core both during their lifetime and following the breakup were great examples of why they severed ties with him.
• Creator Breakdown: Ben went through a bit of this sometime before Ire Works dropped. First off, Brian Benoit left the band due to his hand injury. During that period, Ben's very stressed relationship with then-drummer Chris Pennie led him to quit the band during the middle of a tour. The band claimed his temporary departure was due to "compounding financial and physical reasons" but Greg later confirmed that Ben and Chris could not gel together as people. Ben, Greg, and Liam wouldn't get out of this rut until Gil Sharone came in to help the band record Ire Works.
• Development Hell:
  • All of their major releases have had no less than 3 years of development time for any of them. (Actually, after Miss Machine, each of the band's full-length albums came out three years after their previous one.) High turnover rate and the band being in high demand for live shows has something to do with it.
  • Played even straighter with Ben's side project, Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, which features Brent Hinds, and William Duvall. Has been in development since 2012, and only samples of songs have come to the surface. Giraffe Tongue Ochestra's debut LP eventually dropped in September 2016.
• Fatal Method Acting: Averted. The amount of injuries the band has sustained during concerts while managing to keep playing during said injuries is nothing short of amazing. Former bassist Adam Doll was paralyzed from the chest down, but this was due to a car accident rather than a concert injury.
• Inspiration for the Work: According to former vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, the high-pitched riff that starts and ends "43% Burnt" was inspired by the alarm that rings when the ovens in Subway or Starbucks have completed a cycle.
• The Pete Best: Given their status as a Revolving Door Band, this was sort of inevitable.
• Promoted Fanboy: Greg was a fan of the band prior to joining.
• Troubled Production: Ire Works as mentioned above, and to a lesser extent One of Us Is the Killer. Greg and Ben's relationship was in dire straits during the production of the latter, and it shows in the sheer aggression of the music and the name of the album itself. Calculating Infinity encountered major setbacks in the form of their bassist getting paralysed in a car accident mid-recording, forcing Ben to record the bass tracks himself.

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