Saying goodbye to a friend is heartbreaking. For fans of the progressive metal band, The Dillinger Escape Plan, those parting words were bittersweet as the band performed their final three consecutive shows these past few nights.

On December 29th, Before 2017 came to a close, The Dillinger Escape Plan had themselves a final farewell show at Terminal 5 in New York City. The metal core band had been together for twenty chaotic years, and it all came to an end during the last few nights of 2017.  The two-sold out nights feature special guests including Faith No More’s Mike Patton who helped perform from their collaborative EP “Irony Is A Dead Scene” along with past DEP members Dmitri Minakakis and Brian Benoit. 

The final performance lasted 2 hours and had the band performing 19 songs from their discography of six LPs. The venue was jam-packed with longtime fans, and through each song, their love for DEP showed as they raised their voices and stomped their feet.

From the videos posted and fan pictures uploaded, it appeared that the final shows were not sad but joyful. Though fans were saying goodbye, they were also rejoicing in a career expanding twenty years.

The setlists of those three shows are available below.

Night One Setlist:

Set 1: Irony is a Dead Scene w/ Mike Patton
Hollywood Squares
When Good Dogs Do Bad Things (with Brian Benoit)
Pig Latin (with Brian Benoit)
Come to Daddy (Aphex Twin cover) (with Brian Benoit)
Malpractice (Faith No More cover) (with Brian Benoit)

Set 2
Panasonic Youth
Destro’s Secret
Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants
Surrogate
Sugar Coated Sour
Weekend Sex Change
Hero of the Soviet Union
Dead as History
Fix Your Face
Farewell, Mona Lisa
When I Lost My Bet

Encore:
Limerent Death
Sunshine the Werewolf (with Brian Benoit)

Night Two Setlist:

Prancer
Milk Lizard
Jim Fear
Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants (with Sheridan Durant from School of Rock, Easton PA)
Room Full of Eyes
Sugar Coated Sour
Weekend Sex Change
The Running Board
Symptom of Terminal Illness
Black Bubblegum
One of Us Is the Killer
Crossburner
Good Neighbor
Calculating Infinity
The Mullet Burden
Sandbox Magician
Abe the Cop

Encore:
Limerent Death
43% Burnt (with Dmitri Minakakis)

Night Three Setlist:

“Proceed With Caution”
“Limerent Death”
“Panasonic Youth”
“Milk Lizard”
“Baby’s First Coffin”
“Dead As History”
“Surrogate”
“Happiness Is A Smile”
“One Of Us Is The Killer”
“Nothing To Forget”
“Low Feels Blvd”
“Mouth Of Ghosts”
“Unretrofied”
“Sandbox Magician” (with Dimitri Minakakis)
“When I Lost My Bet”
“Sunshine The Werewolf”

Encore:
“Farewell, Mona Lisa”
“43% Burnt”
“Dissociation” (with Seven Suns & original The Dillinger Escape Plan bassist Adam Doll)

DEP came together in 1997 in Morris Plains, New Jersey with their debut self-titled EP and capping their career off right with their 2016 album Dissociation. The full footage of their final show has since been uploaded, and fans who were unable to attend the last concert can watch below.

Photo credit: Raymond Flotat