As Gronk says over at Stubbadub, The Dillinger Escape Plan, along with Faith No More, have been confirmed for the 2010 Coachella Festival:
The 2010 Coachella Festival lineup was recently announced revealing Faith No More’s first U.S gig for over 12 years.
The Dillinger Escape are also part of the line up and will be playing on the same day as Faith No More, Saturday April 17.
This is great news for our U.S friends, perhaps this is a prelude to a flurry of U.S Faith No More dates?
You can now pre-order Option Paralyis on iTunes by following this link. The iTunes pre-order features a bonus track, “Farewell, Mona Lisa” (demo version) and a digital booklet. The image picture above is the official album artwork. Will be nicer to see a larger version of it.
Up until now the only Dillinger Escape Plan forum in existence is the one over at SMN News. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a very basic, single page forum that only gets the attention it does because it’s officially endorsed. But it’s not to the only one over at SMN that’s oficially endorsed, it’s actually one of many.
Don’t get me wrong, what SMN News offers to bands is on one level pretty good. How they operate as I see it is that if a band wants a forum, they ask SMN News for it and, if they’re as well known as a band like The Dillinger Escape Plan, it’s probably only a short wait for them until they’ve got something launched. For the band’s part it’s an easy solution and one that doesn’t cost them a dime, and for SMN News it offers them a shit load of traffic. Put up a couple of ads and that also means more revenue for their site. Sounds like a good deal, don’t you think?
This is where I disagree. While I think it works for the band and SMN News, I don’t think it works for the fans. Just compare it to some of the best efforts out there, including Echoing the Sound, a community driven forum for Nine Inch Nails. It totally shits on what Dillinger Escape Plan has at the moment, and to some extent I’d argue it even shits on the official Nine Inch Nails forum.
To me, the forum has a hell of a lot of flaws. For starters, it’s only got a single page. It doesn’t separate discussion about Dillinger Escape Plan from normal discussion. And it doesn’t have categories to break down discussion into more focused conversations about single topics. For example, what does that forum really have on music? A “What Have You Been Listening to Lately?” discussion page? Is it really just me who feels that that’s extremely lacking?
None of what I’m talking about is any different from hundreds of forums in existence, which is why I’m surprised that people seem content with what’s on offer at the moment.
As it stands I’d like to ask you all three questions:
1) Are people happy with the SMN News forum at the moment? Be honest. Why or why not?
2) How would you feel about a new forum?
3) What kind of things would you like in a new forum?
If I get a strong impression that people are looking for something new, I propose that I host a forum on SLW that is seperate from the main news feed. It can run side-by-side with SMN News, meaning that it serves as an alternative for people who don’t like how SMN News forums are run. The new forum on SLW will be completely community driven and ad-free. Being community driven by established members of the DEP community means that it will be well under control, something that the SMN News forum is definitely not.
If people could reply to this either in comment form or by emailing me I’d really appreciate it as it’d help me decide on what to do at this point.
This JUST popped up on Greg’s twitter. Probably the best laugh I’ve had all day due to my insane headache caused by new job.
MTV News writer guy accuses me and others of steroid use here: http://bit.ly/4tbHMs , gets scorched here: http://bit.ly/6eC0mh .
James Montgomery casually addresses Mark McGwire which has nothing to do with MTV. In fact, last time I checked, MTV provided what they call “music television” to people back in the eighties and early nineties before deciding on providing America and much of the world with sub-par reality shows and more garbage than anywhere else. When out of every imaginable idea, they ask hard hitting questions that no one cares about. One important one is who in music might be shooting the juice and Hulkin’ out.
Courtesy of what we call “MTV”
Greg Puciato
The diminutive wailer for New Jersey spazzers Dillinger Escape Plan is ripped enough for a man five-times his size, and though he’s denied using steroids (he chalks his physique up to “eat[ing] a lot of protein and work[ing] out a lot”), we’re still not entirely convinced. Then again, positively destroying the stage on a nightly basis has to have some benefits, right?
Check out the links at the top and read Greg’s response here. Thank you, Greg. Thank you.
According to now updated wikipedia entry for the album AND this wonderful Blabbermouth.net post, we’ve got ourselves a track list for Option Paralysis!
“Farewell, Mona Lisa” was premiered this past Christmas exclusively on Sirius XM’s Liquid Metal. A low-quality recording of the song can now be heard in the YouTube clip below.
“Farewell, Mona Lisa” will be made available as a digital single on January 19.
According to guitarist Ben Weinman, “I Wouldn’t if You Didn’t” was one of the last songs written for the album, “taking DILLINGER to places [we] have never gone before.” Meanwhile, “A Room Full of Eyes”, which Ben dubs as a favorite on the album, is “one of the most intense songs we have ever written.”
U.K.’s Metal Hammer magazine recently reported that “Option Paralysis” will feature a guest appearance by 70-year-old Mike Garson, who has previously contributed to DAVID BOWIE’s “Aladdin Sane” and NINE INCH NAILS‘ “The Fragile” albums.
Vocalist Greg Puciato previously stated about the band’s new songs, “Wait ’til you hear what we’ve got for you now. The vibe when we recorded ‘Ire Works’ was defined by a feeling of struggle and hope and just staying alive in the face of almost falling apart, feeling triumphant in making it through the previous couple of years, and now the vibe is OK, now we’re just gonna fuck everyone up.’”
The track list for Option Paralysis is..
Greg has kindly update the MySpace blog with some words of wisdom as well as a gift to all you drummers..
Category: MusicJeez….has it really been three months since the last blog? Time goes by fast when you’re busy SCORCHING POSEURS. Hopefully you guys all know what I’m talkin’ about and the time’s gone by fast for you too, and if you don’t and it hasn’t, SHAPE THE FUCK UP AND GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER cause that’s what you should be doing at all times! Setting the proverbial flamethrower to eleven and taking aim. In fact, let that be your New Years resolution. Repeat after me: “I, (insert name), do solemnly swear, no matter how old and tired and worn down by idiots I may become, to make it my life’s duty, to SCORCH POSEURS in whichever field I choose to operate in, no matter what it is that I’m doing…FOREVER.” There. You just made a fucking COVENANT. Like the Jews of old, except this time the burning smell shouldn’t be coming from a talking bush in the desert, it should be the stench rising up from the trail of seared dorks you leave in your wake like a just blown out match. Got it?
Since the last checkpoint, we finished recording our new album “Option Paralysis”, played a bunch of killer shows with Thursday, Fake Problems, and Endless Hallway, and then capped off the decade with two exceptional shows with our buddies Gogol Bordello, Glassjaw, Thursday, and United Nations. 2010 is gonna be a really big one for us. There’s no better way for us to start a decade then by releasing a new album in the first quarter(March 23) of the first year, and then by touring and playing everywhere that this big spinning rock will have us. Hopefully we’ll manage to avoid self destructing by 2011, cause as I’m sure you guys can tell we always have our finger hovering around the red button no matter how long we’re around. It’s the only way we know how to roll. Full speed or die. This shit ain’t fun when it’s safe, folks. Safety and comfort is boring, and leads to even more boring art. What I’m trying to tell you guys is to SABOTAGE YOUR LIFE NOW WHILE YOU CAN BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!! What I’m really trying to say is that things in The Dillinger Escape Plan are unbelievably great right now. We’re about to unleash what we and a lot of close longtime critical eared friends around us all feel is our best album to date, and we’re all healthy and playing furious shows lately, so lets embrace it all while it’s here ’cause given our track record who the hell knows how fast and how long we can keep the train runnin’ this time. Lets all kick ass and make 2010 the best it can be and try to start strong, and finish even stronger than we began it. We’re ready to do our part.
On another note, our drummer Billy has been a man of few public words so far, since he pretty much keeps himself in a dungeon playing drums nonstop. He has, however, recently expressed a desire to share his freakish gift with others and wants to expand his super select pool of students. I don’t know what the hell he and his tiny club of drum disciples do when they get together, ’cause it gets weird like a freemason society or something and they speak in code that only other drum wizards seem to understand, but if you play the drums and are already better than most and want in, he’s ready to unleash the Secrets of the Skins(if any of you turn that into an X-rated film name or a documentary about Native Americans, I want royalties.) The man of few words and many paradiddles had this to say:
“Greetings and happy New Year to all. As we have some time off for the month of January, and some more time here and there coming up, I am currently offering private lessons to skilled drummers in the Long Island/NYC area, where I reside. If this interests you, contact me at bill.rymer@gmail.com.
-Billy”
I mean imagine him emerging out of his drum cave and saying that in a wizard’s voice in a hooded cloak while waving his hand in the air. Things like “Greetings….to all,” and “where I reside.” He even speaks like someone who plays drums 23 of the 24 hours out of the day, and by that I mean WIZARD-LIKE. Like a wise drum wizard who plays weird shit at freakish speed. Seriously though, he sees drumming the way Neo saw the Matrix when he got all Jesus-ish, he’s insane even by our high standards of mental insanity, so if you wanna take your skills to another place hit him up.
What else? Hmm. Our tourdates on the front page are about to get…oh…I dunno, around a hundred dates longer, so keep an eye out for that, cause chances are unless you live in Yemen or on a mountaintop in Tibet we’ll be heading your way this year. Only two months and some change left until our new album comes out, and we can’t wait. Presales will start soon, with all kinds of options(enough to paralyze you…we’re punbelievable OH!!!!) including a completely one of a kind box set that makes the Hellraiser box look like a happy meal box(I hear they’re bagged now? what a crime), and ruined the lives and crushed the souls of everyone we had working on it to try to make it a reality. Happy New Year everyone, I hope you all have a good one. Become a better version of you. Talk to you sooner than later…
-Greg
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Also, if you’ve been following the Warped Tour 2010 Facebook/Twitter/Myspace/Website, you’d have noticed that Dillinger are doing the entire Warped Tour for 2010. If you’re not knowledgeable of the Warped Tour- it WAS a very sold tour back in the day. It had a number of my favorite bands playing for years straight at a time and it’s a fantastic way to get some major fan-base started as it’s a huge draw for teenagers and college students. Of course, times and music tastes have changed and a majority of the bands over the last couple years have been of the “pop-punk variety”. This year is a bit different , they have confirmed a few decent bands that will be hitting the stage with TDEP. Check out their website to find out more.
Two new song titles got confirmed via Optionparalysis.net as well – Those being “Endless Endings” and “Widower”.
Stay tuned for more info to come out as the release date draws closer! Option Paralysis drops March 23rd, 2010.
Merry Christmas from Everyone at SLW and DEP. Ben was on Sirius earlier for this:
Enjoy. Sorry for delay on massive OP write up. Christmas has been a huge sidetrack on it.
Much love, Mike.
This got confirmed this morning during a discussion in the forums about Greg’s work with Max Cavalera:
In related Dillinger news, the band confirmed that the tracks “I Wouldn’t if You Didn’t” and “A Room Full Of Eyes”will join “Good Neighbor,” “Farewell, Mona Lisa,” “Crystal Morning,” and “Gold Teeth On A Bum’’ on Dillinger’s new album Option Paralysis, due for release on March 22nd.
So that’s six of the possible ten songs named. During an interview for BareBonesMusic, Ben and Greg mentioned a couple more facts about OP:
During a independent interview a girl did after a show with Jeff and Liam, they mentioned Dimitri will be doing the artwork and packaging for OP. Even though Dimitri had left the band as their vocalist after Calculating, he still has worked continually with the band. He did the artwork for Miss Machine, backing vocals on Ire Works for “Fix Your Face” and now artwork for OP.
In the next day or so, I’ll be writing up a large post about what we know as fans, what we don’t know, and what’s to come. More so for people who may just be finding all of this out and want to have a complete post about all the information. The feed of this site is imported on the Dillinger Escape Plan Facebook page, and that’s where we see lots of feedback. Anyone with some serious questions about the album, the band, and things concerning OP should post a question. Make it legit, guys. I’ll pick some of the stand out questions, answer them the best I can, and provide solid information for you all.
Stay tuned as I’m 50% done this massive write up.
ALSO:
Merry Christmas from the band. Release date is now 3/22/10.
Anyone within the Dillinger community knows about Greg’s collaboration within Spylacopa. Yesterday he broke some news on twitter of the somber side. Troy Young, drummer for the band’s EP was found shot to death in his apartment.
Drummer Troy Young, played on the Spylacopa EP, was shot to death in his apartment. Sad day. Talented drummer and nice person, 29yrs old. [twitter post]
Via NYPost.com
A 29-year-old musician on the cusp of the big time was found shot dead early yesterday in his Brooklyn home.
Drummer Troy Young, hit with a bullet that pierced his heart, was found on the floor of his basement apartment on Fourth Street in Carroll Gardens when police arrived shortly after midnight.
The door to the apartment was unlocked and nothing appeared to have been stolen, police said.
Cops went to the apartment after a friend reported Young hadn’t been seen in several days. Acquaintances said they last saw him alive Tuesday.
“Troy was very hard working, he went to New York to ‘go where the big time is,’ ” said his grieving father Ed.
Young sometimes played with The Spines, a Long Island band, and may have met his recent girlfriend at one of his gigs last month, his father said.
Young’s sister, Allison Marotta, said her brother had a girlfriend who also had another relationship.
“This guy has been in Troy’s face a couple of times,” she said.
No arrests were made or suspects named.
If you’re looking for a huge pick-me-up in your mood now, check this sick quality video of “Good Neighbor” from Sauget, Illinois’ show. Click here.
Previews!
By the divine power of Thor, we’ve got something nice for you today. First off is a written review/preview of OP from Rocksound.TV – giving a moderate preview of what to expect and comparisons of previous Dillinger material. Check it out here -> Rocksound.TV
Next is something we ALL want to hear. ACTUAL audio from each new song. Check it out here.
Enjoy guys