The Dilinger Escape Plan complete album and go on tour

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN has completed work on their long-awaited new full-length album, Ire Works.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN (Ben Weinman - guitar, Liam Wilson - bass, Greg Puciato - vocals, Gil Sharone - drums, and Jeff Tuttle - guitar) recorded Ire Works with long-time engineer Steve Evetts at Evetts’ Omen Room Studios in Los Angeles, CA. The band has unveiled the first preview track and album opener “Fix Your Face” exclusively via the band’s MySpace: www.MySpace.com/DILLINGERESCAPEPLAN.

Ire Works’ complete track-listing is as follows: “Fix Your Face”, “Lurch”, “Black Bubblegum”, “Sick On Sunday”, “When Acting As A Wave”, “82588”, “Milk Lizard”, “Party Smasher”, “Dead As History”, “Horse Hunter”, and “Mouth Of Ghosts”. Ire Works is set for a November 13 North American release date, November 12 internationally.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN has also unveiled the details for their first headlining tours in support of Ire Works. The band will kick things off with a U.S. run during the month of October along with guests A LIFE ONCE LOST, GENGHIS TRON, and BEHOLD…THE ARCTOPUS. Immediately following, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN will embark on a U.K. and E.U. headlining run in November with support acts still TBA.* A complete listing of confirmed DEP tour dates can be found below with more to be announced soon.

Updated THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN news and tour information will be made available at the Relapse Records website: www.RELAPSE.com, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN website: www.DILLINGERESCAPEPLAN.com and MySpace: www.myspace.com/DILLINGERESCAPEPLAN.

*This European tour was previously announced as THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN & MESHUGGAH co-headlining tour. MESHUGGAH has dropped off and it will now be a DEP headlining tour.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Tour Dates:

***THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN U.S. Headlining Tour w/ A LIFE ONCE LOST, GENGHIS TRON, BEHOLD…THE ARCTOPUS***

October 4 Cleveland, OH Peabody’s
October 5 Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theatre
October 6 Chicago, IL Subterranean
October 7 St. Paul, MN Station 4
October 8 Papillion, N The Rock
October 9 Denver, CO The Marquis Theatre
October 11 Los Angeles, CA Key Club
October 12 San Francisco, CA Bottom of The Hill
October 13 Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk
October 14 Santa Ana, CA Galaxy Concert Theatre
October 16 Dallas, TX Curtain Club
October 17 Spring, TX Java Jazz
October 19 St. Petersburg, FL State Theatre
October 20 Fr. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
October 21 Orlando, FL Backbooth
October 22 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
October 24 Baltimore, MD The Ottobar
October 25 Cambridge, MA Middle East
October 26 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony
October 27 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
October 28 New York, NY Blender Theatre @ Gramercy

***THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN E.U. Headlining Tour w/ support TBA***

November 3 Yeovil, UK Orange Box
November 4 Manchester, UK Academy 3
November 5 Birmingham, UK Academy 2
November 6 Sheffield, UK Corporation
November 7 Glasgow, Scotland Cathouse
November 8 Newcastle, UK Academy
November 9 Bristol, UK Academy
November 10 London, UK Mean Fiddler
November 12 Eindhoven, Holland Efenaar
November 13 Essen, Germany Zeche Carl
November 14 Amsterdam, Holland Melkweg
November 16 Erfurt, Germany Centrum
November 18 Berlin, Germany Kato
November 19 Hamburg, Germany Logo
November 20 Prague, Czech Rep. Rock Cafe
November 21 Vienna, Austria Arena
November 22 Munich, Germany Backstage
November 23 Fribourg, Switzerland Frisson
November 24 Cesena, Italy Vidia
November 25 Strasbourg, France La Laiterie
November 27 Paris, France Elysee Montmartre
November 28 Antwerpen, Belgium Hof Ter Lo
November 29 Asch-Sur-Alzette, Lux. Kulturfabrik

"The greatest and most influential band on Earth" - AP

"The sound of the future now." - KERRANG!

"DEP are the greatest band the world has ever seen." - NME

"the future of alternative music" - METAL HAMMER

"I'll have to be quite candid, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN are easily the most important force in progressive underground music right now." - Real Detroit Weekly

"The music is astonishing. Miss Machine is a major statement. Bravo. " - The Cleveland Scene.

"DILLINGER has always amazed; now - the cheeseball idiom must be embraced - the band rocks. Miss Machine depicts a DILLINGER that has matured if not mellowed, one that values musicality as much as mathematical precision." - Las Vegas Mercury

"Miss Machine, in fact, might be the most perfectly designed and awe-inspiring heavy rock album you'll hear all year." - Miami New Times

"In terms of sheer ambition, no one playing music right now touches The DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN." - Eye Weekly

"Miss Machine is the sound of a band living up to and shattering all expectations, making it one of the most exciting and forward-thinking releases this year." - Hartford Advocate

"Miss Machine is an explosive, important Cassini-styled musical mission to Saturn, from which even more striking, more convincing sounds and sights may be sown in years to come." - Baltimore Weekly