The Dillinger Escape Plan/The Black Queen frontman Greg Puciato was interviewed by sticksforstones.net and shared some interesting details on a number of topics, including a possible live rendition of Lamb Of God‘s “Torches“, teaming with Chino Moreno, the current progress of Killer Be Killed‘s next album and his views on Phil Anselmo‘s racist actions.
Speaking of the potential for a live rendition of “Torches“, he said those attending the February 12th Los Angeles, CA stop of the Lamb Of God, Anthrax, Deafheaven & Power Trip tour (get those dates here) may be in for a treat. Puciato and Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe have been discussing potentially pairing up for the live debut of “Torches“, which Puciato guested on in the studio.
Puciato was also asked if he would ever consider teaming up with Deftones, etc. frontman Chino Moreno on a track sometime in the future, he stated:
“I’ll see him tomorrow, he’s here too, he’s here in London doing press for the new Deftones record. I mean we’ve obviously done… You know, we did the Deftones “Passenger” song onstage together like 30 times, so I would love to, I would love to do something together on the same song. I think a lot of our fans, there’s a good cross portion of Dillinger and Deftones fans, and I think they would be pretty stoked if we were to do something together. But it’d have to be the right thing, the right time… If he were down, I’d be down.”
In regards to Killer Be Killed‘s sophomore album, he mentioned that he has been in contact with the other members of the group, including Soulfly‘s Max Cavalera and Mastodon‘s Troy Sanders. According to Puciato they’re just “trying to figure out where the hole is in all of our schedules to get together.” He does later concede that he isn’t sure if there will be time to record an album in 2016, given that The Dillinger Escape Plan are currently writing and Mastodon expect to begin writing again soon.
When it came to Phil Anselmo‘s usage of racist gestures and remarks, which Anselmo continues to apologize for, he had a lot to say—though some might not share his viewpoints on Pantera‘s output:
“I mean, I think it’s unfortunate just because, you know when you… Metal, you know, has a hard enough time. Metal and rock have a hard enough time, I think, getting taken seriously, you know, outside of itself. And a lot of the reason why is stuff like this happens and then the outside world just sees that.
“…Rock and metal, people treat you like you’re an actor that came from porn, or you’re an athlete that came from fucking professional wrestling. They act like it’s a fucking circus, you know? And the reason they act like it’s a circus is because the only thing that people see outside of it, that don’t know anything about it, is they hear something like this. They hear, ‘Oh, this guy from this band is fucking ‘sieg-heiling’ on stage and yelling ‘white power.” And everyone goes, ‘Of course that’s what he did. He’s in a fucking heavy metal band. They’re all a bunch of fucking retards.’ That’s what people say outside of it. It’s really bad for the genre, but it’s just offensive, man.
I don’t particularly care whether he gets forgiven or not, ’cause I don’t give a shit about anything he’s done since “Far Beyond Driven“. So I truly don’t care. I don’t pay attention to it. I just feel bad on a humanistic level. I don’t care about whether he is forgiven, or about Pantera, or anything like that. I just care on a humanistic level. There’s people that are probably fans of him that are fucking extremely bummed out now. And not just bummed the way I am, or the way you are, but bummed because it directly, personally offends them. They’re black or they’re Jewish or they’re Asian, or they’re not fucking white.
You know, it’s fucking 2016, man. You might as well fucking yell out fucking, ‘Burn f*ggots at the stake’ while you are on stage or something like that. It’s just, like, c’mon, man.”
