String quartet SEVEN)SUNS have shared a video for their cover of The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s “Prancer“. That quartet took to covering the entirety of The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s “One Of Us Is The Killer” album, which will be released on September 29th through Silent Pendulum Records.
With SEVEN)SUNS having been involved with The Dillinger Escape Plan in the past, this tribute album has received the blessing of the defunct mathcore greats’ own Ben Weinman. SEVEN)SUNS even appeared on The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s final album “Dissociation“.
Violinist Earl Maneein said of this cover:
“‘Prancer‘ is one of my all-time favorite DEP songs. It’s a tie between that one, ‘Farewell Mona Lisa‘ and ‘43% Burnt‘.
I first heard it live at Amityville Music Hall in Amityville, Long Island. It’s not a big club and they played three nights, two sets each night, all sold-out. When they launched into ‘Prancer‘ — literally — I can tell you there was no safe space in the venue. People were using the walls to kick off and slam into each other, Ben and Greg were walking on people’s heads, Billy was dangerously close to chucking his set across the room, while Kevin and Liam were holding it down. So I knew what kind of challenge I had in trying to recreate that feeling in this string quartet arrangement.
Ben sent me stems of the original track and I think I spent four hours one night trying to figure out 10 seconds. I eventually did, and this is the result. I think I managed to capture the menacing, sarcastic spite of the original, but that wouldn’t have happened without Jenny, Chern Hwei and Adda deeply understanding the ordered anarchy and aggression that is not usually present in classical music, needed to pull this arrangement off. We hope you like it.”
