Make sure you check out The Dillinger Escape Plan’s New MySpace Blog, covering topics such as pre-orders for Option Paralyisis, tour and their When Acting As a Wave shirts.

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Pre-orders are up! If you head over to the Seasons Of Mist webstore you can “check out” our album in a number of formats. We’ve got the regular jewel cased CD for everyone out there who likes to end up having cracked plastic cases lying around, and we’ve got a digipack with a bonus track which is a pretty handsome step up, as well as an unbelievable looking vinyl option that comes with a high quality digital download, and a box set that looks good enough to sit on your mantle and has a ton of stuff in it, not the least of which being a zapper thing that can turn off pretty much ANY television you come across. There’s nothing that’s gonna gratify me more than going into a crowded sports bar and secretly turning off the televisions right before some big UFC decision announcement between Ricky Rattlesnakefist and Big John Sledgehammer or whatever they call themselves. Also in the box are a picture book, a flag, a beanie, buttons, a luggage tag, and a CD/Vinyl that’s actually a CD on one side and a working vinyl on the other. Anyhow…there’s also limited quantities of the Option Paralysis vinyl and the box set, so if you’re looking to end up with something that’ll surely age like only the finest of wines, that’s the ticket in my opinion, ’cause with the vinyl you get the full quality digital files too so you’re set with the music on your computer and IPod PLUS you have something limited and rare to hang onto and bury in a time capsule right before the world ends. Hey, there’s no shame if you want the CD by itself though. There’s something cool about that as well. Whenever I see an album that I consider a personal “classic” on CD on someone’s shelf, there’s definitely a kinda “whoa this is fucking cool” moment, it’s just even more so with vinyl. It reminds you that there is something that was created, something tangible, something valuable, not just something that you can hit delete and erase forever. As much as I love the internet, there is something inherently and impossibly awesome about having the “thing.” I could get into a whole discourse about it all, but thankfully for you guys I won’t. I’m just checking in to let you know that the pre-order links are up, so if you feel like being part of the solution and not part of the problem, check ‘em all out HERE. You gotta think of this kinda stuff as natural selection, cultural Darwinism if you will. You can only get rid of shitty things by weeding them out, like evolution, and in this case you do that by starving the thing that sucks and nourishing that which you like. You gotta support the things you think are good, you can’t just grab it all for free and then keep complaining about how much music sucks these days, or the garbage makers will win simply by way of having the deepest financial backers. Anyhow…..boooorrringggg…..I’m losing you…..Bueller…….Buellerrrr……moving on.

We’re in Europe, it’s great as always. Vienna and Zurich were great, but Milan, holy fuck, Milan, absolutely amazing show. We hadn’t played there in almost eight years or so and it was absolutely incredible. We won’t take so long next time. It was great seeing our old merch guy and long time friend Paolo, who when we first brought to the US thought “Wendy” from the “Wendy’s” we took him to was a real person who owned the restaurant and wanted to meet her because he couldn’t believe how big the fries and drink sizes were. Imagine how PSYCHED he was when he realized that there are Wendy’s “restaurants” everywhere. Needless to say I think we doubled his weight in a year’s time. While we’re on the topic of silly tour stories from our past, Paolo and I were cracking up last night remembering a certain old fat bus driver we once had who NEVER wore a shirt and every day when he put deodorant on would also lift up his man-tits and roll it on underneath of them while he was at it. See what you guys are missing? We’re playing really long sets, the longest we’ve ever played, around 18-19 songs a night, and it feels gooooood. I’m assuming you guys have seen the tour dates for the North American spring tour? Most of them are on the main page right now, but there are more coming so keep checking back if you don’t see one near you. It’s gonna be us, our old fellow mischief makers in Darkest Hour who we haven’t toured with since 2002(we could write a small book on the insanity just from that one tour), IwrestledABearOnce, and a band I’m really excited for you all to check out if you haven’t, Animals As Leaders, a really impressive instrumental creation from one of the more interesting and exciting guitar players on the scene today. Instrumental technical metal is usually just slightly less irritating than pissing out napalm, and only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry, but this stuff actually has soul and sounds fresh, and not like a gathering of the ponytails club meeting at a Guitar Center. We’re gonna steamroll through North America, passing through South By Southwest in Austin which we haven’t done since 2004 and finishing with Coachella which will be a first for us, from early March to mid April. It’s about time. We haven’t done a “full” North American tour since what? Late 2005? We didn’t mean for that much time to pass, come out and lets get reacquainted shall we?

We’ve also got some more international dates coming up in May and June; keep an eye out for those if you live overseas.

We’re super busy right now and that’s how we like it. See some of you soon and we’ll get those “When Acting As A Wave” shirts out as soon as we get back from here on the 14th of Feb.

-Greg

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