Interview with Ben Weinman on Rage's The Saturday Night Free For All

Here's a new interview with Ben Weinman from Rage's The Saturday Night Free For All. It's also on iTunes, if that tickles your fancy.

Short Fast Loud Interview With Ben Weinman

Ben Weinman recently did an interview with Australia's Triple J's program Short Fast Loud. You can access the interview here, or below:

New Interview With Ben Weinman

There's a new interview with Ben Weinman with Ozmosh, which you can check out here. Nothing particularly exciting, though.

Footage of Ben's Performance at the Stone

Click on the banner below to access footage of Ben Weinman's solo performance at John Zorn's The Stone (full 40 minutes of uninterrupted improvisation):

Ephel Duath Update (Old News)

Sorry, this news is about a month or two old, but just an update for all of you who are anticipating Ephel Duath's new record, Through My Dog's Eyes, which features Ben Weinman on the title track, the release date has been pushed back to January 26, 2009. The album artwork, by Seldon Hunt, has been unveiled and is as follows:

Ben on The Governor's Ball

Ben Weinman is featured on a podcast by The Governor's Ball. You can access it at this location.

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Scans from Total Guitar Magazine

Ben Weinman and Jeff Tuttle were featured in UK's Total Guitar Magazine. Here are some scans:



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Ben Weinman on Headbanger's Blog

Headbanger's Blog have an audio-interview with Ben Weinman, where he talks about the Suicide Silence cancellation, their drumming situation, plans for the new album, their upcoming DVD, his opinion of deathcore and his new line of heavy metal t-shirt for dogs. You can stream the audio below (and download the file at this location).

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82588 Shirt and New MySpace Post *Shirt No Longer Available*

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Design by Shadow Monster.

All the info you need regarding this shirt is in the following MySpace post:

So the Kerrang awards happened Thursday night. We won an award called "The Spirit Of Independence Award", which according to host Scott Ian(before he was a "VH1 Celebrity" he was actually in a rad little band called "Anthrax", kids) goes to an "uncompromising band that manages to break rules and stay outside of the mainstream" or something like that. Basically they should just call it the "Total Badass" award. If you're a girl, we're like the guy who wears shitty clothes, hangs out with people your parents don't approve of, doesn't appear to have a real job, but is somehow smarter, kicks more ass, mysteriously has more money, drives a better car, and fucks better than your boring rolex wearing white bread boyfriend. Spirit of Independence? That's the DEP way, don't they know that? Anyhow, we got recognized, and sent Ben Weinman and Asian Steve across the pond to receive the award.

Ten minutes into the award ceremony, I get a text from Ben saying that we are seated right next to Metallica. Oh....killer. I think at that moment I was doing something really awesome like pumping gas or something and started to begin to question my decision not to go.

So nine hours later I get a call from Ben, and he tells me a tale of tales that will live on in infamy. The following events were real and actually happened:

-Ben and Asian Steve got onstage and accepted the award on behalf of The Dillinger Escape Plan....pretty awesome, great honor. Bands that we are huge fans of like Metallica and Rage Against The Machine stand and applaud...the surrealism begins. Thanks Kerrang, and thanks to our friends in the UK, you have always always been consistently some of our favorite people to play for, and some of the best and most supportive people in the world for us.

(Here's where the story goes into a world of surrealism that surpasses even Salvador Dali's most bizarre imaginations)

-Later, Metallica accepts some award, and sends a shout out to Asian Steve.

-Backstage....Lars Ulrich comes up to Ben and the Asian and goes "Yo! You're Asian Steve!"

-Today, actually at this moment, Metallica is playing Reading fest, and Ben and Asian Steve have been there hanging out and kicking it with them all day. They are completely aware of both "'87 Hetfield" and the significance of "82588". At the rate this story is unfolding, Asian Steve is probably onstage right now playing third guitar for "Harvester Of Sorrow" or something.

Needless to say my mind is blown. At the instant Lars ran up and called out Asian Steve I would have started punching myself in the face trying to wake up from whatever alternate reality I had gone into. Right now I am convinced that they have entered some sort of matrix of awesomeness, a parallel dimension of some sort where instead of a white rabbit with a flavor flav clock jumping down holes, a little danish drummer of the greatest metal band of all time runs up to Asian Steve and recognizes him out loud by name. I no longer question my choice not to go. It goes beyond that. If I see any of you, at any time, and you ask me why I didn't go...I will punch you straight in the face. They are apparently filming a lot, so we'll get some footage of everything up when they get back.

So anyhow, the Party Smasher shirt sold out, and tomorrow we will have the 82588 shirt up for sale on the main page. Tomorow is, of course, 8/25/08. The catch is this. This shirt will ONLY BE ON SALE TOMORROW. Forever. That's it. It goes up tonight at midnight EST, and goes down tomorrow night at midnight PST. I'm throwing an extra three hours in there, just as a cushion for people on the west coast. But that's it. After that, this shirt will never ever ever be available again. We aren't limiting it to a particular number of copies, we're just selling it tomorrow, and that's it forever. So tonight, when the clock hits midnight on the east coast of the US, or 5am in the UK, 6am in Europe, 9pm on the west coast of the US, whatever the hell time Australia/Japan/New Zealand operates on, up it goes. Here's a preview...(please don't sue us Lars! I know you're reading! It's an homage!!!)

EDIT: Inspired by the Metallica album "...And Justice For All", and the lady justice visual, this limited edition "82588 : NO JUSTICE FOR ANY" shirt features a headless Lady Justice crumbling and falling apart on the front, with "Dillinger Escape Plan" written in the classic Metallica "Justice" font at the bottom, and the uneven scales of justice being tipped by money on the back. This shirt is only going to be available from now until August 26th, a little over a 24 hour period. Don't miss out, this is going to be a Dillinger shirt that will end up being a collector's item for sure. After today, you will never be able to get it again unless you scour Ebay and get lucky but I'm sure nobody's ever gonna give it up. Check it out on our main page. Then after you order one make sure you listen to something gnarly off of that album like "Dyer's Eve", or "Shortest Straw", or the middle part of "Blackened" on a loop for 30 minutes, and close your ehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifyes and soak in the pure unadulterated majesty of pure 87 Hetfield storming around like a lion with a giant white ESP Explorer that says "EET FUK" on it or something oddly cool. Or better yet, if you're a noob who thinks Metallica is just some band of old dudes who put out some terrible song on the Mission Impossible 47 soundtrack, you should probably go check THIS out. Please try to control your boner.

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Huge New MySpace Post, or: How Greg Puciato Ate Rice Krispies For Breakfast Today

From MySpace:

The End Of The Road....
Category: Music

....is a pretty good song by Boys 2 Men. One of those songs that when it comes on, by the end everyone is singing along. It's also a very weird feeling that comes along at the end of an album touring cycle, when you've been on the road for almost a year straight, and you reach the end of it for a while. It's like driving a car at 150mph the whole time then coming to a stop. When you are travelling the world with the same nine people in various forms of transportation, all for a single cause, you don't stop to realize how great it all is until you're done for a while, and how much that whole lifestyle and all of those people have become a part of yourself. We turned ourselves into machines, that play through injuries and violently exorcise rock and roll demons on a nightly basis. What a strange feeling it is to know that we don't have any shows booked at all and that we'll be home for a bit. Like a soldier with no more war to fight. Kinda like Rambo at the end of First Blood. So if you see any of us backpacking through your town mumbling about what time the show starts or yelling at random people to "start the intro", just look the other way. I guess what's weird about it, is that for us the road had become home. We left to record Ire Works in June of 2007, and never really stopped after that. Now we're looking at the first substantial block of time off the road, and it's time to shift gears a bit. Which brings us to our first order of business:

-Some of you may have seen October tour dates posted for a tour we were to take part in. Due to circumstances beyond our control(no we're not breaking up so don't believe anything that might start floating around on the internet) we will not be taking part in that tour. We wish every other band on the tour well, and hope that it is a great success for them and for the people behind the scenes working hard to make it a great tour.

We have a lot of exciting things happening. The best of which is writing for the next album, which we'll record sometime next year. We have a good amount of ideas in the initial testing stages, and we're about to really dive in. We also have a DVD of early years Dillinger in the works for all you old heads or people interested in a history lesson, and we're still gonna be cranking out these limited Ire Works shirts 'til we reach the end of the song list. Party Smasher and 82588 are coming up, wait 'til you see how ridiculous they are. I know that you'll all be stoked on them. I may have to break my rule of not wearing my own band's shirts. Hopefully Lars won't sue us over the 82588 design....(hint hint)

We had a lot of great shows on the US run, we were totally shocked at the amount of people who showed up to see us at the Cavalera shows. Thank you all so much. We had a lot of fun and it was great to see you all. Chain Reaction? Los Angeles House Of Blues? Two shows that will definitely not be forgotten.

Remember when we posted Jeff's number online and you all called saying "Bitch I'm The Boss"....well if you still have Jeff Tuttle's phone number, you may now wanna call him up and say "Bitch, You Are Definitely No Longer The Boss", because he just got engaged. Domestication better not sap your ability to unleash the fury, boy. Please stay the boss Jeff. Wear them pants son! Wear 'em!

You should all probably go see Tropic Thunder. Absolutely ridiculous. Not since Soul Man has anyone turned in a performance like Robert Downey Jr did in that movie. Utterly absurd. I've never been in a theater where there were so many people uncomfortably trying to not laugh at some of the un-PC parts in that movie. Lighten up folks, it's called comedy.

Ben played a crazy avant garde set last night at John Zorn's club the Stone two night's ago with Trevor Dunn. It was filmed, we'll get some stuff up soon. He's got a lot of other cool stuff going on too like programming work with Ephel Duath and who knows what else he's into. Head over to his page at www.myspace.com/benjaminweinman every now and then and maybe he'll fill you in on those things before I do.

Spylacopa, the project with me and John LaMacchia of Candiria fame, that has been slowly materializing in the background for years now, is finally seeing the light of day. Our first EP, with guest appearances from Julie Christmas of Made Out Of Babies/Battle Of Mice fame and Jeff Caxide from Isis, is gonna come out on November 4th. More info on the release and the project as a whole will be forthcoming, keep up to date on that over at www.myspace.com/spylacopa .

Don't worry, we'll definitely still play some shows while we're writing the new album. We'll get another US run in at some point as well as another UK run and some off the beaten path places like Mexico and South America. We'll let you know. Stay tuned to this site for whatever may come...

OR you can always go to our unofficial news page, www.spreadinglikewings.com and the kid who runs that will probably know about anything pertaining to our lives before any of us do. I don't bother making decisions in my life at all anymore, I just check that site and find out what happens. I go there, and it'll say something like "Greg Puciato ate rice krispies for breakfast today", and it'll somehow be before I actually even ate breakfast, but the fact is that I actually was thinking of eating rice krispies. Then I do, thus fulfilling the prophecy. It's a little weird. There's probably news up about this blog even though I haven't posted it yet.

Here's some new FOOTAGE from tour. Check it out if you're into Brent from Mastodon and homosexual zombies(very closely related). We love you all...Asian Steve doesn't though. He hates everyone. Go here and tell him to have a coke and a smile every now and then.

-The Dillinger Escape Plan

In summary:

• The Dillinger Escape Plan will NOT be playing with Suicide Silence in October due to unforeseen circumstances.
  
• A new DVD of the early days of The Dillinger Escape Plan is in the works.
• Limited edition shirts themed on songs from Ire Works will still continue to be produced. "Party Smasher" and "82588" are the next two shirts to be coming out.
  
• Spyaloca will be releasing an EP on the 4th of November.
• And last but not least, Jeff Tuttle has been engaged. Congratulations dude.

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Dillinger Escape Plan: Tour Diary Part 4

Watch the fourth part to The Dillinger Escape Plan's tour diary below, which features live clips, an unplugged version of "Horse Hunter" with Brent Hinds, Maris the Gay Zombie and more!



Previous Tour Diary Entries: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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Ephel Duath News and Other Bits and Pieces

Since news has been a bit slow lately, I've decided to post about a whole bunch of things that at least having a passing relation to The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Firstly, as you may remember, Ben Weinman is appearing on an upcoming full-length release by the great Italian avant-garde/experimental metal group Ephel Duath, which will be released on Earache Records. The following news on the status of the record was posted by Ephel Duath as a MySpace Bulletin just the other day:

Hey all,

We hope the summer's treating you well!

We're doing pretty good, we've just recorded the new album. It's going to be mastered wednesday and we obviously cant wait. We're really impatient to see how you guys will respond to it, but we're also psyched because we really have the feeling to have accomplished something good.

It's still quite hard to describe, but Through My Dog's Eyes should be out october 6!

In the meantime we'd like you to check out our brand new Facebook page.

It's going to be filled with exclusive stuff so make sure to join it!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ephel-Duath/33755520434

Cheers,
ED

Other people who are guesting on the new Ephel Duath album include Stefano Ferrian from Psychofagist playing Saxaphone on the track "Breed" and Italian Techno/Rap producer Lou Chano together with Rough and Fuzzy appears on the song "Nina".

Ben Weinman is involved with a few remixes at present, and is playing a solo set today with special guests Trevor Dunn (bass) Dan Weiss (drums) and Asian Steve (extra noise) at John Zorn's The Stone in NYC. More info here.



Relapse Records posted the following bulletin on MySpace this morning:

Relapse would like to send our condolences to NY-based photographer Lori Baily who has recently suffered a tragic loss. Please help us and our good friends at BrooklynVegan get word and support out to Lori during this time of need.
For more information on Lori and ways you can help, please visit: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/08/condolences_to. html

Also, please repost this and help spread the word.

Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and (ex) Anal Cunt guitarist/producer Scott Hull has released his debut solo album titled Requiem through Relapse.



Another band on Relapse, Genghis Tron, are set to release five volumes of remix material by an impressive range of artists on various labels, including Relapse. More info below:

Volume 1 [Temporary Residence]:

01 Board Up the House (Steve Moore Remix)
02 Colony Collapse (Justin K. Broadrick Remix)
03 Things Don't Look Good (Rob Crow Remix)
04 Ergot (Eluvium Remix)

Volume 2 [Lovepump United]:

01 Relief (Black Moth Super Rainbow Remix)
02 Recursion (Circle Remix)
03 Recursion (CFCF Remix)
04 The Feast/Ergot (Dntel Remix)

Volume 3 [Relapse Records]:

01 The Feast (Scott Hull Remix)
02 City on a Hill/The Whips Blow Back (Phillip Cope Remix)
03 Board up the House (Danny Lohner Remix)
04 I Won't Come Back Alive (Ulver Remix)
05 Relief (Drumcorps Remix)

Volume 4 [Anticon Records]:

01 Board Up the House (Flying Lotus Remix)
02 Endless Teeth (Lucky Dragons Remix)
03 Relief (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)
04 City on a Hill/The Whips Blow Back (Subtle Remix)
05 Colony Collapse (Odd Nosdam Remix)

Volume 5 [Crucial Blast Records]:

01 Board Up the House (Tim Hecker Remix)
02 I Won't Come Back Alive (Nadja Remix)

Volume 1 is available now from Temporary Residence at this location.

And lastly, in case you weren't already aware, The Dillinger Escape Plan will be teaming up with Suicide Silence, Beneath the Massacre, Emmure and Architects in October and early November to tour the U.S. and briefly Canada. Tour dates in the sidebar of this page. Oh, and in case you didn't check the post below, Stolen Babies will be the resident band for the 14th annual Halloween Terrorfest in Long Beach, CA. More info in the post below.

Dillinger Escape Plan 2008 Tour Diary Part 3

Previous Tour Diary Entries: Part 1, Part 2

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New MySpace Post by Ben

From MySpace:

Hey boys and girls, I will be performing a solo set with special guest Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Fantômas, Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant). The location is John Zorn's club, The Stone (located in NYC at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street) at 10:00PM on the 13th of August. Tickets are available on the night for $10 unless otherwise noted, students 13 to 19 are admitted half price, and children under 12 free. Not sure what I will be doing exactly but it will probably include a good degree of improve as well as some electronics and other hew has. Other guest players to be announced soon. Should be a great time so come out and hang with me.

In other news I am working on a bunch of remixes which im pretty excited about. I'll fill you guys in more on them very soon. In the meantime come out and see Dillinger on tour now with Cavalera Conspiracy until Aug 6. We added a few special Dillinger dates including one in Anaheim since Disney won't let us play the House of Blues show on this tour. Things like that tend to happen to us a lot. Get the dates here: http://www.myspace.com/dillingerescapeplan

Live Footage and Interview From Hellfest

Metal Head TV has some live footage of The Dillinger Escape Plan as well as an interview with Ben Weinman from their appearance at Hellfest Festival in France. Links below:

'Panasonic Youth' (Live)
'Fix Your Face' (Live)
Interview With Ben Weinman

Ben Weinman to Perform at The Stone

Lou Reed performing at The Stone

Ben Weinman will be performing a solo set (consisting of guitar/electronics) at John Zorn's The Stone (located in NYC at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street) at 10:00PM on the 13th of August. Tickets are available on the night for $10 unless otherwise noted, students 13 to 19 are admitted half price, and children under 12 free.

Ben Weinman to Guest on Upcoming Ephel Duath Release

From Blabbermouth:

Ben Weinman, founding member and guitarist of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, will make a guest appearance on "Through My Dog's Eyes", the new album from the Italian avant-garde metal band EPHEL DUATH. Weinman will compose the electronic parts of the song "Bark Loud".

Weinman comments on his experience working with EPHEL DUATH: "EPHEL DUATH is one of those bands that truly understand the essence of what experimental and fusion music should be about. Touring with them was an amazing experience and it is great to finally be collaborating in this way!"

EPHEL DUATH will enter Outer Sound Studios in Rome on July 14 to complete the recording of "Through My Dog's Eyes" with producer Giuseppe Orlando (NOVEMBRE, KLIMT 1918). The drums for the album have already been recorded by Marco Minnemann (who recently played drums for NECROPHAGIST on their Summer Slaughter tour) at Seacoast Studio in Imperial Beach, California. Mastering for "Through My Dog's Eyes" will take place at Finnvox Studios (HIM, NIGHTWISH) in Helsinki, Finland, while the artwork for the album is being created by Seldon Hunt (NEUROSIS, ISIS, SUNNO)))).

Due to be released this October by Earache Records, "Through My Dog's Eyes" will feature the following track listing:

01. Gift
02. Promenade
03. Breed
04. Silent Door
05. Bella Morte
06. Nina
07. Guardian
08. Spider Shaped Leaves
09. Bark Loud

Full UVTV Video Up Now *Updated*

The full UVTV video of The Dillinger Escape Plan live in concert (pro-shot footage) is now up. You can access it through the UVTV podcast, or you can watch it below. Note: the video is up on a "very fast server and will work better than uploading somewhere else."



Edit: Unfortunately, the videos have been taken off YouTube due to Copyright Infringement. There is still a slightly better quality clip of "Lurch" on DEP's Facebook page.

Also, if you want to you can download the concert from this location (you can download it without any worry).

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New Interview w/ Ben and Greg

Taken from this location.