The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato Speaks On Bugchasing Inspiration Of “Sunshine The Werewolf”
The Dillinger Escape Plan frontman has been fielding questions through his official website, Gregpuciato.com. A recent answer in the link above has shed some light on the lyrical inspiration behind the bands track “Sunshine The Werewolf“, which as Puciato confirms, is about bugchasing.
An excerpt from his post can be found below:
“…When the song was written, the lyrics were originally actually inspired by an article that Brian Montuori, the artist responsible for the “Miss Machine” artwork, had sent me. It was a perverse and disgusting article about a strange and extreme subculture of people who would deliberately “give” and “receive” HIV in order to romantically share an eventually fatal disease(queen sized coffin built for two).
The lyrics were fiction, and written from the perspective of the “giver”, who then turned out to have tricked the smitten “receiver” into thinking their love was forever before instead moving on to someone else(there’ll be another just like you…you’re not the only one, etc), sadistically leaving the receiver feeling tricked and scorned…the receiver eventually repeating the cycle as a giver.
HIV vampires basically. A metaphor for people passing abuse forward in relationships…”
Bugchasing on theprp, yet another milestone hit!
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Saw them in Indy last night. The 5 people in the crowd went ape shit during Sunshine and 43% Burnt. The rest of the crowd just called them faggots. Apparently, Mastodon draws out the idiots now.
*the 5 people in the crowd who were into DEP that is.
That’s 5 more than there should be. Zzzzzzzzzzz
Mastodon has a very ignorant and idiotic fan base I have found as of late.
I’m assuming all the neanderthals that still listen to ‘modern rock’ radio were at the show. By the end of the set, the entire front row had fled from getting amps, monitors, and the entire drum set thrown at them at the end of 43% Burnt. It was pretty rad.
LOL Awesome. DEP are a fucking force, and only pussies can’t handle them.
Mastodon draws a big hipster crowd. HIpsters fucking suck.
Watching Converge open for them a few years ago was terrible (crowd-wise). Just people standing in horrified awe…
Dude, how weak was that show? The crowd had absolutely no reaction even for the band they were all there for. Mastodon seemed bored, too. I’ll give it up to Troy Sanders, though. He was the only one trying to get that lame crowd going.
Yeah, I don’t get it. It was almost like 95% of the crowd was like “I got nothing else to do tonight. I guess I’ll go to this show.”
Hell, it’s been 3 days and I still feel like I got beat over with a 2×4. I wasn’t going to let a crowd of metal nerds ruin my good time.
really? Mastodon draws hipsters now?? fucking sad. and DEP rule. sounds awesome Natemare.
Pretty sweet to find out this song is about that… 7 fucking years later. Definitely adds a different vibe to it when i listen to it. Also, I refuse to get into this Mastodon/Dillinger/hipster debacle enfolding above me. Both bands are far too incredible to deface with this nonsense. Fuck you all.
Dillinger > Mastodon. deal with it.
I wish I could like them, but Mr. Puciato and I personally dislike each other, and that has since made getting into their music a little tough. But in all fairness all I said to him at GDC was “so you guys are doing a song for Homefront huh?” he says yep. I say “so that game’s probably gonna suck right?” He then told me to fuck myself.
Buuuuuut. Months later, the game is released and only sold 300K copies, and then as a result the studio that devved it goes out of business. I then wrote a big post on our gaming based site about how I prophetically predicted the collapse of a big budget Triple A title, based solely on Dillinger’s involvement.
Greg apparently didn’t think any of that was funny, and threatened to beat me up, to which I replied “you could just do a song on my soundtrack, and that would probably have the same result for me as it did for Homefront…”
They did do the only worthwhile track on the soundtrack… but I’m surprised Greg didn’t have a sense of humor about it and defended the game, which he had nothing to do with and had never played…
It souns like he took it as the game will suck because it’s associated with his band. I’d probably be pissed, too. I’m asduming you ment it as “oh, this game is going to have a cool soundtrack, meaning the game itself will probably suck.”
Souns about right to me.
DESTROYERRRR
At a recent show, Greg Puciato was wearing a “White Men Can’t Jump” t-shirt with the collar ripped so all you could see was his stupid bulging pectoral muscles. I feel like he was only wearing the shirt so that if someone made fun of him, he could justify punching their lights out.
Dude is such a fuckstick.
The other guitarist (not Ben) had a dumbass flatop haircut like Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. Seriously.
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