With 10 feet in several camps, New Jersey’s Dillinger Escape Plan whips back and forth between dissonant thrash and brooding prog rock on its allegedly final studio LP. The blazing “Limerent Death” snaps necks at 100 paces, but the lush “Low Feels Blvd” soothes the afflicted. “Honeysuckle” splits the difference, brass knuckles on one hand and a silken glove on the other. The group’s ability to gracefully navigate its pop-eyed eclecticore gives it a precision and power its legion of imitators can’t touch. (Sat., 11:40pm, the Keep stage)

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This article appears in November 4 • 2016.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.