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

Roskilde Festival Interviews and Photos

There are a few new interviews with The Dillinger Escape Plan from when they performed recently at Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The first one is in Danish, done through Roskilde's official website. You can access that here (Danish) or here (English -- translated with Google).

The second interview is a video interview with Denmark's Headbangers Blog (MTV), which you can access here.

Thanks to Troels for writing in with the news!

Edit: I've uploaded a series of photos to Flickr of The Dillinger Escape Plan during their performance at Roskilde Festival, which were taken by Jacob Dinesen. I've added a few of these below:







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There are also some some more photos of Roskilde Festival and The Dillinger Escape Plan's performance by Troels Pleimert, which you can view at this location.

New Interview w/ Ben and Greg

Taken from this location.

Photos from Gods of Metal

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I've uploaded the following photos of Dillinger Escape Plan at Gods of Metal to Flickr, courtesy MusicaMetal, who also have photos of Slayer, Testament, Meshuggah etc.

New Interview With Ben

Kerrang interviewed Ben Weinman, as part of their exclusive Download festival 2008 podcasts from Donington Park, Leicestershire, UK. Watch it below:



Thanks to Blabbermouth.

DEP To Guest DJ at Download

Straight from the horse's mouth:

We are stoked to announce that we have been invited to play records with Crossfire DJ's Zac Slack and James Sherry at the Duracell Tent at Download this year on Friday 13th June as special guests. Basically we have been told that anything goes and it will be a 'fucking riot' so we are up for it and going in head first! We will make sure that you get our fave records stuffed into your ears from 10.30pm-3am. Bring a war helmet…

DEP to Tour With Meshuggah and Between the Buried and Me in Europe

DEP have announced a string of shows they will be playing in Europe with Meshuggah and Between the Buried and Me in June. The dates are as following:


17/6/08 - Rohre - Stuttgart, Germany
18/6/08 - Roxy - Aschaffenburg, Germany
20/6/08 - VK - Brussels, Belgium
21/6/08 - 013 - Tilburg, Holland
22/6/08 - Hellfest - Clisson, France
24/6/08 - Salzhaus - Winterthur, Switzerland
25/6/08 - Roxy - Prague, Czech Republic
27/6/08 - Club Vaudeville - Lindau, Germany
30/6/08 - Palasport - Bolzano, Italy

If you haven't already, go and check out Meshuggah's latest album obZen, which is great. Likewise check out Colors by BTBAM -- great, as well. And since I'm name dropping recommendations, check out The Red Paintings. I just came back from an amazing show of theirs that was executed excellently in both musical and visual senses.