Editing Calculating Infinity (section)

==Reception and legacy==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic"/>
| rev2 = ''[[Blistering (magazine)|Blistering]]''
| rev2score = 10/10<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bulatovic |first=Alex |date= |title=Music :: Reviews :: Dillinger Escape Plan - "Calculating Infinity" |url=http://www.blistering.com/reviews/album.php3?ID=170 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030914123016/http://www.blistering.com/reviews/album.php3?ID=170 |archive-date=2003-09-14 |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=Blistering}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Chronicles of Chaos (webzine)|Chronicles of Chaos]]''
| rev3score = 9.5/10<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bromley |first=Adrian |date=October 12, 1999 |title=CoC : Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity : Review |url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=2-1388 |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=[[Chronicles of Chaos (webzine)|Chronicles of Chaos]]}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev4score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |year=2007 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |pages=119–120}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="EOPM">{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2006|publisher=[[MUZE]] |volume=3 |edition=4th|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0003unse_w1c2/page/4/ 4] |chapter=Dillinger Escape Plan}}</ref>
}}
Critical response to ''Calculating Infinity'' was positive. [[AllMusic]] writer Jason Hundey described the album as "spew[ing] forth anger and venomous misery in a way that is comparable only to spontaneous combustion", adding that it expands upon "the ultra-aggressive, deliciously technical approach they adopt toward [[Grindcore|grind]] and [[Hardcore punk|hardcore]]".<ref name="allmusic"/> Hundey praised the release for being "both screechingly abrasive ... and morbidly beautiful", dubbing it "explosive and brilliant", singling the tracks "43% Burnt" and "Weekend Sex Change" out for praise.<ref name="allmusic"/> ''[[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]]''{{'}}s Kevin Stewart-Panko wrote: "Regardless of what you think about ''Calculating Infinity'', you can't deny that the 11 tracks on this album revolutionized extreme music and raised the bar in terms of technicality, musicianship, speed, dynamics," describing it as a "groundbreaking metallic hardcore album".<ref name="decibel">{{cite web |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2006/12/18/the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity/ |title=The Dillinger Escape Plan – "Calculating Infinity" |last=Stewart-Panko |first=Kevin |website=[[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]] |publisher=Red Flag Media |date=December 18, 2006 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325014830/https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2006/12/18/the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity/ |archive-date=March 25, 2018 }}</ref> The ''[[CMJ#CMJ New Music Monthly|CMJ New Music Report]]'' noted that "this noisy album is almost painful to listen to, but it's compelling enough to turn you into a happy masochist."<ref name="cmj"/> ''[[Terrorizer (magazine)|Terrorizer]]'' magazine ranked the album as the 15th best release of the year,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/terroris.htm#99 |title=Terrorizer Albums Of The Year 1999 |publisher=Rocklist.net |access-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515000604/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/terroris.htm#99 |archive-date=May 15, 2013 }}</ref> while ''[[Metal Hammer]]'' also included it in a retrospective top ten list for 1999 published in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-07-21/the-top-10-albums-of-1999 |title=The Top 10 Albums Of 1999 |website=[[Metal Hammer]] |publisher=TeamRock |date=July 21, 2017 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905183301/http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-07-21/the-top-10-albums-of-1999 |archive-date=September 5, 2017 }}</ref>

''Calculating Infinity'' has since been lauded as a landmark release for the band and the genre. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked it the 56th greatest metal album of all-time in a 2017 feature, praising it for featuring "an underlying logic, [and] a sense of structure that lifted songs ... to a realm above the noise and fury of everyday hardcore".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity-1999-w486974 |title=The Dillinger Escape Plan, 'Calculating Infinity' (1999) – The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time |last=Considine |first=J.D. |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=June 21, 2017 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830145948/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity-1999-w486974 |archive-date=August 30, 2017 }}</ref> In 2023, they listed "43% Burnt" as the 97th greatest metal song of all time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shteamer |first=Hank |date=2023-03-13 |title=The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-heavy-metal-songs-1234688425/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-14 |title=‘43% Burnt,’ The Dillinger Escape Plan |url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/-45771/43-burnt-the-dillinger-escape-plan-45775/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Rolling Stone Australia |language=en-AU}}</ref> ''Metal Hammer'' columnist Stephen Hill claimed that the album "changed the face of metal" and demonstrated that the members of the band were "serious and inventive musicians, not just one dimensional noisemongers".<ref name="hammer"/> Writing for [[MetalSucks]], Amy Sciaretto suggested that ''Calculating Infinity'' was the album "that made Dillinger so revered by the metal underground, and obviously, those listening to metal",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/07/14/albums-we-wish-had-made-the-list-but-werent-really-eligible-the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity/ |title=Albums We Wish Had Made The List But Weren't Really Eligible: The Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity |last=Sciaretto |first=Amy |publisher=[[MetalSucks]] |date=July 14, 2009 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910153751/http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/07/14/albums-we-wish-had-made-the-list-but-werent-really-eligible-the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity/ |archive-date=September 10, 2017 }}</ref> while ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' writer Colin McGuire described the album as "one of the most influential collections of experimental metal the genre has seen in the last two decades".<ref name="altpress"/> ''Metal Injection'' ranked ''Calculating Infinity'' as the sixth best debut album in heavy metal in a 2016 feature,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.metalinjection.net/video/6-the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity-top-10-debut-albums-in-metal |title=#6 The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity – Top 10 Debut Albums In Metal |work=Metal Injection |date=October 11, 2016 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905140318/http://www.metalinjection.net/video/6-the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity-top-10-debut-albums-in-metal |archive-date=September 5, 2017 }}</ref> while ''[[Loudwire]]'' ranked it at number ten on their own list on the same topic in 2017, with writer Graham Hartmann hailing it as "the most spastic, mathematical, chaotic and contradicting metal album ever released".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://loudwire.com/the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity-best-debut-metal-albums/ |title=No. 10: The Dillinger Escape Plan, 'Calculating Infinity' – Best Debut Metal Albums |last=Hartmann |first=Graham |magazine=[[Loudwire]] |access-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524070030/http://loudwire.com/the-dillinger-escape-plan-calculating-infinity-best-debut-metal-albums/ |archive-date=May 24, 2017 }}</ref> ''Loudwire'' later listed the record at number three on their list of the "25 Best Metalcore albums of all-time".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://loudwire.com/best-metalcore-albums-all-time/|title=25 Best Metalcore Albums of All Time|magazine=[[Loudwire]]|access-date=March 24, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222202347/http://loudwire.com/best-metalcore-albums-all-time/|archive-date=February 22, 2018}}</ref>