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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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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Dillinger Escape Plan 2008 Tour Diary Part 3

Previous Tour Diary Entries: Part 1, Part 2

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Chain Reaction Anaheim Ticket Info

From MySpace:

Ok....so we are getting an avalanche of people wondering how to get tickets to the Chain Reaction show in Anaheim on August 6th before it sells out.


So here is the link. Click it, buy tickets...show up....unleash fury with us. It's really that simple. PLEASE DON'T WAIT TIL DAY OF AND THEN HARASS US OUTSIDE ABOUT WHY YOU CAN'T GET IN. It makes me feel like shit and sucks.

BUY TICKETS, DON'T BE THAT GUY OUTSIDE

In other news, we've been slacking on the video front, we'll get a new one up soon, we have a lot of footage, give us a few days. Warped tour was killer, we had a lot of friends on that tour, and they fed us great food, and we didn't get kicked off this year! Which is pretty much all we can ask of a tour at this point in our lives. We learned that Florida in July is a perfect place....if you enjoy slowly evaporating/melting because of the heat/humidity. Old people move there to relax? Really? I bet somebody from Florida invented air conditioning. Out of necessity. I wanna shake his hand. People there are probably pretty ready to die by the time the reaper comes, just so they can get the fuck underground and out of the heat. Great shows though! North Carolina and Virginia Beach....you guys killed it too!

We start the tour with the reunited Sepultura brothers tomorrow in Liam's hometown of Philadelphia at the TLA. Check our main page for dates. Jeff Tuttle will more than likely be in the crowd moshing every night when they play "Territory". Jeff is incapable of sitting still while metal is playing. He lays in his bunk all day sleeping and watching movies, and I swear to god if you turn on anything involving distorted guitars or double bass or growling or yelling or the devil or whatever the hell its all about he will instinctively start headbanging and mosh his way out of bed. We'll stand on the side of the stage WATCHING a killer band like At The Gates, and I'll look at Jeff, and he'll be headbanging like he's on stage. Or I'll look out in the crowd and think whoa who's that guy owning the pit, oh that's Jeff. Hahaha. I love him.

We have a string of hometown-esque shows coming up. If you live there you better represent. Ahem. BALTIMORE. NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. Don't be strangers.

-The Dillinger Escape Plan

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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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.

Old and New Scans of DEP Features in Rock-A-Rolla

I just today picked up Rock-A-Rolla Magazine's 14th issue, in which I found a live review of The Dillinger Escape Plan. So I've scanned that, in addition to a Dillinger Escape Plan feature article/interview, review on Ire Works, and the first part of Rock-A-Rolla's top 30 albums from 2007 (in which Ire Works came out at 4th) all of which were featured in Rock-A-Rolla's 12th issue. You can find everything mentioned below and at Flickr.

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Rock-A-Rolla Issues 12 (Scans 1-8) and 14 (Scan 9)

Summer 2008 Tour Diary, Part 2

The following is the second part of an ongoing series of video blogs by The Dillinger Escape Plan, documenting their current tour.



Previous Tour Diary Entries: Part 1

Newer Tour Diary Entries: Part 3

Ben Featured in This Month's Guitar World *Updated*

Ben is featured in this month's Guitar World as one of the 50th fastest guitarists. Click on the image to enlarge it.




Thanks to Goolick33, who wrote about this over at the DEP/SMN forums.

*Update*

Goolick33 has posted up scans of a Jeff Tuttle and Ben Weinman feature from the same issue. Again, click on the images below to enlarge them.