This is a truly fascinating interview, and we strongly advise everyone to read it, even those who are impervious to the very distinctive and sometimes difficult aesthetics of The Dillinger Escape Plan.
For the true music lover, getting the opportunity to analyze the creative psychology of the crazy musicians who make up The Dillinger Escape Plan is a real godsend. “Crazy” is not too strong a word, for there’s madness lurking around the corner when vocalist Greg Puciato reveals and explains his own artistic obsessions, as well as guitarist Ben Weinman’s and producer Steve Evetts’ – hair-pulling obsessions, whose results can be heard on their fresh, intense, dynamic, and very free latest album, One Of Us Is The Killer. What Puciato describes when he talks about the creative process – ordeal, rather – is flabbergasting. The first comparison that sprung to mind was director Stanley Kubrick, who once managed to inject genuine insanity in the eyes of Jack Nicholson. A perfect comparison, really, since the name Kubrick strikes a very particular chord in Puciato.
Another interesting element is his vision of stage performance, which is all about the here and now and about pure spontaneity. You’ll all remember this impressive video, where the frontman suddenly starts running over the heads of his audience. Just as spontaneous is his uncontrolled approach of screamed vocals – a concept which he judges to be the strangest thing ever in music. All this reminded us of another band of crazies, Converge, which the vocalist considers as The Dillinger Escape Plan’s brother band.
Let’s delve deeper into this with a very talkative Greg Puciato in this long interview…
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