Miss Machine

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Template:Album infobox Miss Machine is an album by The Dillinger Escape Plan, released on July 20, 2004 (see 2004 in music). The band's music is difficult to classify, but it is closest to grindcore or metalcore, while also incorporating elements of other genres, such as jazz. To date, the band has released three singles from this album, all with videos: "Panasonic Youth", "Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants", and "Unretrofied".

Miss Machine was released in three editions: LP, CD, and CD plus bonus DVD. The bonus DVD includes footage from a handful of the band's live performances.

Miss Machine is the band's first full-length album since Calculating Infinity and a chain of events that shook up the band -- the car accident prior to the recording of Calculating Infinity that left original bassist Adam Doll paralyzed, the departure of original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, recording an EP (Irony Is a Dead Scene) with Mike Patton, and the addition of replacement vocalist Greg Puciato to the band.

Of the tracks "Sunshine the Werewolf" and "The Perfect Design", Puciato said in a 2005 interview with Lambgoat:

The Perfect Design was about killing someone you loved so that they could never be with anyone else and then realizing that you wanted them back but now can't have them. Sunshine The Werewolf was originally about an article I read about people called "Gift Givers" and "Bug Catchers," people who try to give or catch AIDS deliberately. I changed it a little bit to make it more abstract so that it can be related to as a relationship song too, but it originally started as that. It works on both levels.

Miss Machine is probably the band's most mainstream-friendly release to date, as the band draws from the experience of working with Mike Patton and the industrial influence of Greg Puciato's other project, Error.

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