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The Dillinger Escape Plan announce 'Calculating Infinity' 25th anniversary show

Mathcore icons The Dillinger Escape Plan are reuniting to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Calculating Infinity.

Announced today, the band will have the anniversary show at Brooklyn Paramount on June 21. For this performance, original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis will join guitarist Ben Weinman, bassist Liam Wilson, and drummer Billy Rymer. Car Bomb and Candy will join as support.

Minakakis said this about the forthcoming show:

"It's been a long time coming for this opportunity to perform in a project I helped create over 25 years ago. Having the chance to celebrate 25 years of Calculating Infinity with my closest friends in life is just a dream turned real. I'm looking forward to seeing all the old faces, as well as all the new ones. The Dillinger Escape Plan has always been more than just a band. We were a force of nature. This reunion show is our way of thanking the fans who have stood by us and the album we made in a small basement in NJ all those years ago."

Weinman also said:

"Dimitri has remained one of my longest and closest friends. Even after leaving the band, his support and contributions through his work on our first albums have kept an everlasting spark in my heart for what we did together. I remember the first day we met. He was the new guy in school and I drove by him and gave him the finger. Then I reversed the car and asked him if he wanted to hang out and make a band. I said, “You look like a singer, dude." We could have never imagined what an impact that moment would have.

While we are all very happy with the resolve of the band in 2017 with Greg, something still feels unsaid as far as the Dimitri era of the band and with so many people talking about the album and after performing a handful of first album performances with Suicidal Tendencies, it just all made sense. This needed to happen!"

Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday (December 15) at 10 a.m. EST. Pre-sale tickets will go live tomorrow (December 13) at 10 a.m. EST here.