Career paralysis

I feel cheated. I’m listening to a new Dillinger Escape Plan album and the word that’s coming to mind is “boring.”

I’ve never been a huge fan of the band’s grindy mathcore, but the experimentalism perfected on 2004’s “Miss Machine” and 2007’s “Ire Works” elevated the Dillinger Escape Plan out of the hardcore ghetto many of its peers have found themselves stuck in.

But on “Option Paralysis,” the group has decided to be a metal band, and the results are disappointing. For a band that’s spent the last 10 years saying they’re never going to make another “Calculating Infinity,” “Option Paralysis” is pretty close.

It features five songs of totally forgettable mathcore and five that feel like “Ire Works” b-sides. The band seems comfortable rehashing a bunch of its old tricks for the majority of the album.