Outburn Review (Spylacopa EP)

Here's a review of the brand new Spylacopa EP by Outburn.

Spylacopa-Chart Attack Interview

Chart Attack recently conducted an interview with John LaMacchia and Jeff Caxide of Spylacopa. THIS JUST IN! Greg has changed his last name to Puciado! Read the interview here.

Spylacopa Article/Review in Alternative Press

Here's a (incredibly hard to read) scan of an article/review of Spylacopa's debut EP by Alternative Press, taken from the Rising Pulse blog:

EP + Hoodie Deal Now Available

The 35$ deal mentioned in the previous blog post is now available on the Spylacopa MySpace. So make sure you swing by there and send them your money. In exchange you will look super suave and get all the chicks.

Spylacopa Hoodie + EP Combo Special

There's a deal coming soon in time for the holidays. Anytime throughout the holiday season you can buy a kickass looking Spylacopa hoodie and the EP together for only 35$, so you're basically getting the EP free. According to the blog post, this will be available very soon via the Spylacopa MySpace. You can find the blog post and check out what the hoodie looks like here.

Exclaim.CA Review of Spylacopa EP

Exclaim.CA have a pretty positive review of the new Spylacopa EP, which you can read here. By all means, they deserve the good reviews they've been getting. Make sure to pick up a copy of it if you haven't already; there's MySpace for a physical copy, and Amazon or iTunes if that's your thing.

Spylacopa in Revolver Magazine

Taken from the Spylacopa MySpace page, a two page spread in this months issue of Revolver Magazine.

Release Party + Info On a New Spylacopa Hoodie

From the Rising Pulse Records blog:
















The Spylacopa record release party was a great success. Thank you to all who attended. Here is a photo from the party. In other news, we will be making hoodies. Black zip up hoodies to be exact and a sample of the design is included with this blog. As soon as they are available we will let you all know ... thanks for supporting Spylacopa and Rising Pulse records. -John LaMacchia

Alarm Magazine's Best Albums of the Week

Spylacopa's debut EP has been listed as one of Alarm Magazine's best albums of the week. Go here for more info.

Spylacopa EP Released Today!

Just a reminder to let you know that Syplacopa's debut EP was released today. Make sure you got to their MySpace to pick up a copy of it, in addition to a really cool specially-designed shirt by Seldon Hunt.

Also, don't forget about the release party that's happening at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn. Make sure you check it out if you're in the area.

About.com Interview With John LaMacchia

About.com have an interview with John LaMacchia regarding the debut Spylacopa EP. Go here to check it out.

More Info on Spylacopa Release Party and Kims Video NYC

From the Rising Pulse Blog:

Hello again, its been a while since we updated so just a quick heads up on a few things. First off, as you know, or maybe you don't, Tuesday November 18th. Is thr release date for the Spylacopa Debut EP. That night there will be a record release party at none other than Lucky 13 saloon in Park Slope Brooklyn. Those of you who can should attend. There will be free booze from 11-midnight. EPs will be on sale, as well as tee shirts and signed posters. So come and hang out, a bunch of friends and press and all sorts of folks will be there. So, hopefully I'll we'll see you there.
Other than that, Kims Video on St. Marks Place in the village will be carrying all Rising Pulse releases. So, theres that. OK enough for now, bye

Spylacopa EP Release Party

I found this image of a poster for Syplacopa's release party on their MySpace account. Click on the image to enlarge it. All the details are on it.

Trendkill Pressing and Vinyl Update of Spylacopa EP

The Rising Pulse blog has announced that the Spylacopa EP will see its release in the UK, Canada and Europe on Trendkill Records. This pressing will be slightly different and will not be available for quite a few months. The post also mentions the possibility of the EP getting released on vinyl, but with nothing confirmed at the moment.

Spyalcopa in Decibel Magazine

Spylacopa was featured in the December issue of Decibel Magazine. Article is available from Rising Pulse Records' blog at this location.

Rising Pulse Records Blog

Rising Pulse Records (who are releasing the debut Spylacopa EP, featuring Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan) are keeping a blog, which you can check out at this location: http://risingpulseblog.blogspot.com/

The blog will contain all sorts of updates including stuff relating to events, upcoming releases, links and so on. Make sure you go and check it out.

Pre-Orders for the Spylacopa EP Are Now Available

Pre-orders for Spylacopa's debut EP are now available from Syplacopa's official MySpace page. Available are two different packages; the standalone CD for US$10 or US$15 (international orders), and a t-shirt and CD package for US$25 or US$35 (international orders). Step on it.

Behind the Scenes Footage of Spylacopa in the Studio

Here is some behind the scenes footage of Spylacopa recording their debut EP in the studio:

Metal Hammer Review of Spylacopa EP

From MySpace:

SPYLACOPA
SPYLACOPA EP
RISING PULSE
FEATURING members of Dillinger, Isis, Candiria and Made Out Of Babies, this 'supergroup' offering would have been a tantalising prospect even if it were no more than the sum of its parts. Yet its head-spinning permutations of post-hardcore ferocity and soar-off-the-leash melodies bewitches with kaleidoscopic brilliance. [8]
JONATHAN SELZE

Greg Puciatos thoughts on "Haunting A Ghost"

From MySpace:

"Haunting A Ghost": John and I had written a bunch of songs together, and every new song was getting increasingly better, and this is the song that I realized we were hitting a stride with. Everything vocal in this song: phrasing...melody...lyrics...all came very quickly and natural to me and that's usually when you know it's good. Sometimes when I hear music I feel like I can hear the melody in the music, like when its loud, you begin to hear the melody creating itself, singing itself, especially with distorted guitars, in the overtones and undertones of the music. Then I feel like I just decipher it and pull it out and there it is. That's how the chorus of this song was. I listened to it, and the vocal melody was just nested in there, sitting right there. The chord progression is really great, and the bassline underneath from Jeff really gives it a feel that I love, like a boat going up and down in the sea or something. Lyrically the song just talks about waking up and realizing that all of a sudden you are in this new phase of your life, and its a little confusing and maybe you aren't sure what to make of it or what to do with it, but rather than be nostalgic for the past and trying to hang on to memories, you embrace your situation and would never ever go back. In my case it applied to a personal relationship ending/beginning that instantly signified a changing of eras for me as a person.

"Haunting A Ghost" is now streaming from Spylacopa's MySpace page. Check it out.

Terrorizer Magazine Review of Spylacopa Interview

Taken from Spylacopa's MySpace page at this location:

From its beginnings as a humble side project for Candiria guitarist John Lamacchia, Spylacopa has accrued exceptional musicians in a snowball of mounting musical bliss, leading us to this stunning debut EP. With Lamacchia's guitar playing and studio trickery supported by Isis' Jeff Caxide on bass, the stage is set for Dillinger's Greg Puciato and Made Out Of Babies' Julie Christmas to turn these warm, atmospheric songs into nightmarishly catchy, pop metal hit singles. With opening pair 'Haunting A Ghost' and 'Bloodletting', the balance between grin-inducing immediacy and dissonant menace is struck to absolute perfection. After the piano led instrumental of 'Together We Become Forever', 'Staring At The Sound' is redolent of latter day Candiria, anthemic vocals over a driving juggernaut of shifting time signatures. 'I Should Have Known You Would' closes proceedings with a woozy, Radiohead referencing lullaby, Puciato crooning "I should have killed you" as the agonising wait for a potential full-length looms on the horizon.

Interview With Greg Puciato on Spylacopa

Spylacopa was formed by John LaMacchia in 2000, and was "simply inteded to be a conduit for his experimental and hypnotic compositions." The first Spylacopa release, "Collective Unconscious," appeared on Candiria's C.O.M.A. Imprint in 2002. A few years later in 2005, with the addition of The Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato and Jeff Caxide of Isis, another Spylacopa single, "The Duke," was released on Undreradar Records in a split with Young America. Releasing a few tracks spontaneously from that point onwards on their MySpace page, Spylacopa's forthcoming debut EP, which gets released on the 4th of November (a little under a month away from now, will be their first proper release.)

Featuring members of Candiria, Isis, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Battle of Mice, it seems like this EP is going to be quite a treat. Indeed, the first two reviews of the forthcoming EP so far have been extremely positive. In addition, the track "Blodletting", which will appear on the EP, now available in streaming from Spylacopa's MySpace page, and prominently featuring Julie Christmas and Greg Puciato together on vocals, promises that the EP is going to be something special.

I spoke with Greg Puciato about the forthcoming EP, and we discussed, amongst other things, his feelings on the finished product, the recording and studio process and the United States Postal Service. Read the interview below:

According to your press release, Spylacopa was formed by John LaMacchia as a way of “exploring experimental and hypnotic compositions” while playing guitar in Candiria. How did other musicians, such as yourself, become involved in the project?

I was approached by John at the show Dillinger played for Tsunami relief at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square NYC(the show where the now infamous youtube headwalk took place). It was a very vague idea at that time, early 2005, and he mentioned that he wanted to release some music he had been working on, and asked if I would be interested in singing on a song or two. I agreed and then really nothing happened for a year because Dillinger was touring so heavily, and John was writing music, finding his voice for this project. In 2006 we really started to send ideas back and forth and realized that we really enjoyed working with one another and became very excited by the creative possibilities, and it became more than just one or two songs. I have no idea how Jeff from Isis or Julie became involved in their parts, John just reached out to various people he was interested in. I would love for that aspect to continue in the future, and I already have some great ideas for the next release as far as guestspots and so forth.

Spylacopa is an amazing prospect considering that the people involved in the project thus far are from extremely talented and critically acclaimed bands such as Isis, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Candria and Made Out of Babies. Considering everyone’s different backgrounds and experiences, how well did you all cooperate on the EP?

Well it was a slow process haha, we didn't start to hit our stride until early 2007. We had demoed probably a full length's worth of songs before we really started to hit our mark, the result of which is this EP. Obviously Julie Christmas just came in and wrote and recorded her vocals for “Bloodletting”, and I actually am not sure which tracks Jeff Caxide played on or what riffs/parts he wrote, that was mostly between him and John in NYC, and I would get ideas as they came and work on them at home, then when I was ready I would go up and collaborate with John and record my parts. We keep an open table at all times, between John and I, its a really healthy creative relationship in my opinion, I just wish, as I do with Dillinger, that we could spend more time physically in the same place as it would make things run much faster! But it is what it is.

Work started on the EP in 2006. How would you describe the song writing process for it?

Well like I said above, we leave it pretty open. Right now me and John are very on the same page it seems in terms of where we see this going and what works and what doesn't, what fits and what doesn't. John for the most part wrote all of three songs musically, and I wrote two songs musically, and then I wrote my lyrics, Julie wrote hers, etc. There is no ego in this band in terms of “I'm the songwriter, I'm the music writer”. It's a totally open forum. If an idea is great it's great. John is a much better guitar player than I am from a technical standpoint, but we are both competent with midi and electronics/programming etc, so if he comes up with a great guitar part or I come up with a cool riff or chord progression, and we both can tell it feels right, we use it. If he comes up with a great vocal melody or phrase, I use it. We've both been in bands for a long enough time, we're not kids starting out trying to prove to ourselves and each other that we can do everything on our own and don't have anything to gain from one another.

What about the recording and studio process?

The recording process was very spread apart largely because of the Dillinger touring schedule. We only had time to record here and there. So we did it whenever we could. John lives only a few blocks from the studio so he was always way ahead of me in the process.

In January this year you posted the news that you headed into Sweet Fire Studios to do the final mixing. Would you account the fact that the people involved in Spylacopa have been busy with their own bands and touring schedules for the reason that the EP has taken so long?

Exactly. I mean it took time because of my schedule with Dillinger like I said, but also because from a timing standpoint it didn't make sense for us to release it right in the beginning or middle of the Ire Works touring cycle either.

To what extent did specific members of the project have an involvement with the song writing and recording processes? How much of an involvement did you have in it?

Of this particular batch of songs, I wrote the music for two, John wrote the music for three, and I sing on all four that have lyrics.

Were there any artists or musicians that particularly inspired what you have done with Spylacopa?

Ehhh the thing about inspiration for me is that it comes from so many places now that I can't really pin down exactly where things come from, which is a good thing! You just hope that whatever comes out of you works well with what the other person is contributing, and if it feels forced, you find someone else to work with! John and I figured out pretty early that we had a good chemistry together. He is a really dynamic player and listens to a lot of music, and also allows himself musically to be influenced by life in general and things other than music, which is important to me, a real artist, not just a guy who practices shredding or mimicking other artists all the time. He has real soul in his writing and playing. He plays a couple of guitar solos that I was really blown away by, not just in terms of technicality but in terms of composition and feel. I would say my influences are more emotion and experience based than musical, not just in writing lyrics but also in writing music, vocal delivery, etc. I feel things more than I think about them, from an artistic standpoint at least. I don't hear a song and think to myself "ok I have to sing notes in this scale" or "this part would sound great if I sang like Eddie Vedder", hahaha, I just try to let things be as natural and without the obstruction of overthinking as possible. Thinking and learning and absorbing, the mental aspect of music, that should happen first, at a different time. When it comes time to write I think it's best to just let it rip and trust and hope that you have the right tools in your corner, that you learned the right things, that you came prepared. That's something I learned from Ben Weinman more than anyone, to do your thinking beforehand, and then when its time to write, just feel. On Miss Machine I almost gave myself a stroke from overthinking everything, sometimes rewriting things forty times only to realize the first or second time was the best. Now that I've learned to separate inhaling from exhaling so to speak, its a much more enjoyable and organized process.

How do you feel with the finished product, are you pleased with it?

So happy with it. Mike Barille did a great job engineering it and getting great tones(which is hard to tell from the myspace stream I know!). The songs themselves, the packaging, the whole vibe, I'm happy with. It feels great to be putting something out that we are proud of and feel attached to and excited about, something that doesn't have a history before it hanging over our heads. Even though we come from particular backgrounds and people may have preconceived notions about us, from Dillinger and Candiria. That may think that John and I sit down and the first thing that comes out is polyrhythms and “math” metal haha, its really far from that. We really feel like we have a completely open canvas and infinite colors to paint with so to speak, so its a great feeling. We cover a lot of territory in these five songs, and didn't paint ourselves into any corners, which is really important to us. I feel like if the next release was some crushingly heavy album, or an instrumental soundtrack, or ambient or rock or whatever, it would make sense now. If we're smart though we'll be writing country songs and singing about fucking and drinking beer on a farm or whatever. That's where the meal ticket in the US is hiding. Right over there under the tractor.

How do you think the EP will be received?

Probably through the US Postal Service, maybe through Itunes. Seriously though, I think that people who care about our previous bands will be happy, they seem to be growing with us, and especially for me personally, Dillinger fans that liked Ire Works I think will really like this. I really think we are offering together something that is timeless and not tied down to any current trend or time period, it doesn't sound time stamped to me at all. These songs could have been written in 1993 or they could have been written in 2020.

How did you got about deciding to release the EP on Rising Pulse Records?

Rising Pulse is John's label that he is gonna be putting this out through, and regardless if the next release comes out on a larger label it will still carry this imprint. Rising Pulse was a better name than Rising Penis. Although I think they usually go hand in hand. Maybe our publishing name should be Rising Penis, that way it's listed as Rising Pulse/Rising Penis. Then we could just shorten it and call it Cialis. Then we'd really get the attention of the older fans.

Is the EP getting released on multiple formats as previously mentioned?

Yeah, we'll be doing some cool packaging stuff. I really want this project, as far as the physical realm is concerned, to stay fairly exclusive. There is no point in putting out infinite copies of a boring cd package. I'd rather make a really cool CD that only has like a thousand tangible copies, and 200 7 inches, and then have it all be digital online after that. CDs and and records and any physical manifestation of a recording seem to me to be going the way of the dinosaur for the general public, they are just for collectors and people who still really appreciate the art of a release, which is a small group. I think if you concentrate on making everything really awesome, then the people who find themselves unable to get the cd or the record, because no more copies exist, find themselves wishing they could, and they understand and have a better appreciation for the whole piece.

Who is doing the artwork for the EP? How did they come about doing it?

Not many people know this, but John is a really good visual artist as well! We originally were going to get someone else to do it, but then I was hanging out at John's apartment, and he has all these really cool drawings and art hanging on the walls, really unique looking, but all very consistent, you could tell they were by the same person. I asked him who did them and he was like “me!”, and I was just like man you have to do something with this, you have to do the art for this band, the more things that we can self contain the better, and who better to know what the visual feel should be than someone in the band? It eliminates having to filter your vision through someone elses interpretation if you can just do it yourself. He has a great eye for aesthetics whether it be drawn by hand, computer imagery, or photography.

Also in your press release for Spylacopa, John LaMacchia mentioned that there is the possibility for Spylacopa to perform live. Considering the busy schedules of the musicians involved in the project, how strongly a possibility do you think that there is for live Spylacopa shows to materialize?

Very strong. We have booking agents for the US and for the rest of the world. I gonna say that it will definitely happen.

Do you have anything more planned for Spylacopa in the near future?

Just getting this out, writing another one or a full length, seeing what makes sense for us, what fits. I'm not viewing this so much as a side project for me as it is just a different outlet. Obviously Dillinger is the bigger of the two, but creatively I don't really see a difference in terms of how exciting or fulfilling they are to me.

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Spreading Like Wings Interviews:

• Greg Puciato of Syplacopa/The Dillinger Escape Plan
  
• J.R. Hayes of Pig Destroyer
• Ben Weinman of the Dillinger Escape Plan

Grab this cool Spylacopa widget in anticipation of the release:

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New MySpace Post Covering the Presedential Election, DEP Stuff in the Works, Spylacopa EP, Shit Yeah Rumor

From MySpace:

REGISTER TO VOTE, HIPPIES. DILLINGER UPDATE.
Category: Music

Ok check it out. If you live in the United States, this is pretty urgent. The voting registration deadline is coming up, go here to see when the deadline is for your state. Some are in like a week! That means that your registration has to be done and postmarked ON OR BEFORE the date next to your state. We aren't coming out to endorse a candidate or influence your vote, we're just trying to encourage you TO vote. That's the important thing. It's very easy to be an armchair revolutionary, or to say to yourself "ah it doesn't matter it's not gonna affect my life". Even if you don't think either of the candidates is Captain fucking America(how killer would that be?), you should view your status as a citizen of this country as enough reason to voice your opinion. Not just on the candidates, but on the propositions in your state! Find out what they are! Politicians pass propositions all the time that you never know about, propositions that affect your life on a statewide local level, that they sometimes HOPE you don't find out about. If you believe in larger budgets for education in your state, have a stance on immigration, gay marriage, abortion rights, everyday shit like money to fix the potholes down the street, etc...VOTE! You can go here and click on your state to see the list of issues that YOU will have the ability to influence this November 4th. If it doesn't give you a major hard on to be able to directly shape the future of the society you live in, you can never bitch about taxes, the man, civil rights, anything. Ever. You forfeit your right to bitch. So click on this link to register to vote if you are over eighteen and haven't already. As you know, it's really easy for a lot of things to get royally fucked up in a very short period of time, so don't be a sloth. For that matter, don't be a moron and vote for Sloth from "The Goonies" either in the write in section of the ballot just because you don't like McCain or Obama. Pick one. Imagine someone has a gun to your head and you are forced to pick. Roll the dice. Don't be a pussy. 1992 Eddie Vedder would come kick your ass if he knew you weren't voting! He would stand on a stool in your living room and write stuff on his arm about being pro-choice while looking super intense and burning holes in people with his eyes and sending flannel shirt shredding sonic booms out of his voice box. Why do I get the feeling nobody will get that reference? Because I'm old that's why!




Oh right! Our band! Hmmm lets see. What's new? We are busy mailing out T-Shirts. Nonstop. The people in line behind us everyday at the post office HATE us by the way. We're not putting any new designs up until everything has been mailed out, so sit tight. Then the epic Mouth Of Ghosts design will be up.

Ben Weinman has been holed up like a mad scientist blasting out the furious Dillinger Escape Plan insanity that will eventually find it's way onto our next release. When Ben says that the stuff he's been writing has actually been giving HIM a headache, you know it's gonna be pretty intense.

The first Spylacopa EP is coming out in November. Links to early reviews, interviews, articles, and info can be found over on that page. Check it. www.myspace.com/spylacopa.

I heard a rumor that there's a Shit Yeah!!! release on the horizon too. Stay on the look out. www.myspace.com/huntthecougar.

We have no touring plans for the immediate future, but you can be sure that we'll take a break from writing at around the halfway point and head out for some quick runs, so that we don't lose our minds(probably too late).

For info on everything and anything Dillinger related, you can check back here, or remember to check out Spreading Like Wings if you really wanna dork it up.

-The Dillinger Escape Plan

Interview With Julie Christmas and John Lamacchia

There's a new interview with Julie Christmas and John Lamacchia with Crush Magazine about their involvement with Spylacopa. You can read a full transcript of the interview at this location.

Also, look out for a new interview with Greg Puciato, also about Spylacopa, which should hit this page within the next couple of days.

Another Spylacopa Review

4/5

Spylacopa is a band that consists of members of such underground heavy hitters like; Candiria, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Made Out Of Babies and ISIS what you get when these musicians join forces is a new animal. Spylacopa sounds like a progressive emo band. That’s right I said it a progressive emo band. If you can imagine a more emotional melodic Page Hamilton backed by a progressive modern rock band then you’d get a pretty good idea. Spylacopa like you might expect have fantastic chops but they don’t show off they pull off a great contemporary sounding album. The first two tracks “Haunting A Ghost” and “Bloodletting” are fantastic if we get more explosive stuff like these two tracks then lord help us all. I want to hear a complete album right now.

Review by Pivotal Rage Lite.

Absolute Zero Media Magazine Review Spyalcopa EP

With members of Dillinger Escape Plan, Isis, Made Out of Babies and Candiria in this project, who the Hell knew what this would sound like but to be honest I'm totally shocked and in awe. The first two track are a mix of all those bands in a very avant/post hardcore/rock manner and amazing in their own right. The third track is a soundscape/ambient/spacial soundtrack piece with piano and synth elements. Having Greg Puciato and Julie Christmas both on vocals makes this all the more special, as they are two of the best vocalists out there in the musical landscape today. There is a more melody driving sound here then most of their other projects. The aggression is there. but there a more user friendly side to Spylacopa. I still would never call this pop music, but I can see this project getting radio airplay and video support by the mainstream as you can get those Hot Topic kids to listen to this and make them think there still cool [laughs] There is a later period Faith No More vibe to this and it works very well. Spylacopa need to make a full length ASAP. This is brilliance in the making; do not miss out on this.

Review taken from this location.

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More Spylacopa Stuff

Spylacopa have a new track on their MySpace page called "Bloodletting", which will be off the new EP coming out on Rising Pulse Records in November. Some info on the track:

Bloodletting was originally written by Greg Puciato. When I heard the demo of the song I was blown away by the chorus. There were all these vocal layers of just screams that sounded like dying banshees. It was an inspiring new step forward for Spylacopa because before this the music we were writing for the project was based mostly on experimental ideas and sounds and a more unorthodox style of writing.
When we passed it off to Julie she just took the song to a whole new level with her eerie lyrics and disturbing vocal melodies. Jeff also played a great part in taking the song to new heights adding these incredible bass layers and textures. After that the whole thing just kind of came together in the mix by the man behind the curtain, Michael Barile. He did this thing in the bridge with one of Jeffs bass performances. Jeff was playing the part and theres a note that rings out and as hes recording the part he's reaching over to Jeffs bass and slowly down tuning the low bass string. It's just perfect for the part.. he tunes it so low it just slowly disappears into the mix.

In addition, I've created a Spylacopa widget that counts down until the November 4 release date (I've got it set to LA time--I hope that this is accurate, if not let me know). Grab it here and spread the word.

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Metal Sucks Article on Spylacopa

Metal Sucks have an article on Spyalcopa called "A New Supergroup You Might Actually Like", which you can read here.

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Spylacopa News and New Post by Greg

From MySpace:

August 25th DILLINGER and SPYLACOPA updates...
Current mood: productive
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN : The Dillinger Escape Plan is currently taking a few months off from touring, but don't expect us to stay home for ltoo long. If we were a crack head, the road would be our pipe. We can't stop hitting that shit! We'll be back out soon. In the meantime however, we stay busy as always. We're writing for a new album, dealing with the million little behind the scenes things that are always happening, and plotting our next wave of attack. To keep yourself as up to date as you can be, check out our page on the regular, we're constantly updating our whereabouts and whatsabouts over there.

SPYLACOPA : Spylacopa is done with it's first EP. Here's the press release that just came out today :

SPYLACOPA debut EP to surface in November;
Featuring members of CANDIRIA, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN,
ISIS and MADE OUT OF BABIES

SPYLACOPA -- the new studio project featuring John LaMacchia (Candiria), Jeff Caxide (Isis), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan) and Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies / Battle of Mice) -- will release their debut five-song Ep this November on RISING PULSE RECORDS .

The band which LaMacchia formed to explore experimental and hypnotic compositions while playing guitar in rock/jazz/crossover band CANDIRIA have been working since 2006 on the Ep. About the band and debut release, LaMacchia comments: "These are some of the best musicians I've ever worked with and the music on this EP speaks volumes of their talent. Fans will definitely be pleased."

While all the musicians are busy with their other bands and touring schedules, LaMacchia doesn't rule out the chance of a few shows with the band. "It will be a challenge, but a show or two might pop up. Fingers crossed."

More info on the band, visit them at their official MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/Spylacopa

BIO:
Fueled aggression, experimental precision, and driving infectious hooks are just some of the parts comprising the whole that is Spylacopa – a musical venture spearheaded by Candiria lead guitarist and songwriter John LaMacchia. The band can be described as painters of a vast audio landscape, putting listeners on a constant musical journey. And while Spylacopa often changes gears, and is far from pedestrian – it is very feel-oriented.

Formed by LaMacchia in 2000, Spylacopa was simply intended to be a conduit for his experimental and hypnotic compositions. But that soon20snowballed into something more significant. The first Spylacopa release, "Collective Unconscious," appeared on Candiria's C.O.M.A. Imprint in 2002. And some years later, in 2005, with the addition of The Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato and Jeff Caxide of Isis, another Spylacopa single, "The Duke," was released on Undreradar Records. Feeling chemistry, camaraderie, and a river of creative juices, in late 2006, Spylacopa began to work on its first official release – but not before the addition of yet another member – frontwoman Julie Christmas from Made Out of Babies.

The wheels are in motion and the band will release its self-titled, five-song debut CD on Rising Pulse Records this November. -- By Wayne Daren Schneiderman, Aug. 2008

Members:
John LaMacchia (Candiria)
Jeff Caxide (Isis)
Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies / Battle of Mice)

What else....I'm working on some other stuff that will surface in the distant future, some writing, some music. I'll keep you up to date on everything as progress is made. Feel free to send me a message, I always do my best to get back to everyone. All of our time is equally valuable, so if you take time out of your day to read this, or to write me, I will most certainly take my time to read what you have to say and try to respond to you.

-Greg

Keep an eye out for a track of this debut EP to hit Spylacopa's MySpace page next week.

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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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Spylacopa EP Update

Spylacopa updated their MySpace blog on the 6th of June with the following EP update:

We are almost finished with the first Spylacopa release. A few final steps and songs will be posted, CD's, LP's and digital downloads will be available. We are looking at a late summer release. Subscribe to this blog for more news as we receive it

Make sure that you subscribe to the RSS feed of their blog for future updates.

If you don't know much about Spylacopa, you should know that it's a project/band consisting of the following: John LaMacchia, Jeff Caxide (Isis), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies and Battle of Mice) and Troy Young. They've also got a pretty sweet t-shirt (pictured below), which you can get a hold of for $12 (U.S.) + shipping through PayPal through their official MySpace page.



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