The Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato recently spoke with metalwani.com regarding the band’s new album, a follow-up from Killer Be Killed and more. You might notice that the interview was conducted a few days ago, as drum tracking for The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s new effort has since been completed. Speaking of the new process the band are using to record the effort, he offered:
“We’re kind of tracking right now, I’m not sure, that doesn’t mean we’re going to put a new album out in the next few months or anything like that, but we just started tracking some drums this week actually. And then we’re gonna do, like maybe over the next month, do the bass and the guitars for the songs and then I think we may go back in in a few months and do another session—which is something we’ve never done before.
We’ve always just had the album written and then recorded it and then put it out. I think this time we might record a batch of songs and then set ’em aside and go in later and record another batch of songs and then see what comes from that. Maybe we end up throwing the songs on an album, maybe we put out a couple albums. I don’t know, we’ve never done this before.
I just feel like, especially after doing this record, I feel like I want to get more experimental with our process and less like, tour, record, release, tour, record, release… just have it be less output, output, output type of mentality.
We never give ourselves time to sit with anything. We just kind of record and release and move and record and release and move. I’m kind of interested in seeing what would happen if we record more than we need.”
Speaking of how the material sounds, Puciato shares guitarist Ben Weinman‘s recent assessment that it shares strong ties to their 2002 EP “Irony Is A Dead Scene“:
“So far it’s a lot weirder, to me, than the other stuff we’ve done. It’s a lot less accessible, which I’m sure might be a shock to a people, because obviously we’ve gotten more and more melodic over the years. And then especially this Black Queen record is completely melodic, so I’m sure people are like ‘oh the next Dillinger record is gonna be even more melodic.’ As of right now it’s pretty weird… I don’t know if I would use the word aggressive.
It’s change man. The closest thing I could think of would be of kind of like if there was a missing recording in-between “Calculating Infinity” and “Irony Is A Dead Scene“. It kind of seems to have more to do with “Irony Is A Dead Scene” sonically then—which is the record we did with Mike Patton—than any other record, cause it’s fucking weird. I honestly don’t know how to describe it. It’s not “One Of Us Is The Killer” part 2.”
