The Dillinger Escape Planiltä uusi single – sekä uutinen lopettamisesta

Yhdysvaltalainen mathcoren ykkösnimi The Dillinger Escape Plan on julkaisemassa lokakuussa järjestyksessään kuudennen studioalbuminsa, joka kantaa nimeä ”Dissociation”. Bändi on nyt julkaissut kuunneltavaksi levyn ensimmäisen singlejulkaisun ”Limerent Death”. Tämä ei bändin ainoa uusi julkistus ole, sillä bändin kitaristi ja ainoa jäljellä oleva alkuperäisjäsen Ben Weinman on paljastanut Noisey-sivulle tekemässään haastattelussa, että bändi lopettaa tulevan levyn tiimoilta kiertämisen jälkeen. Voit kuunnella singlen ja lukea lisää tästä:

Kysyttäessä miksi bändi on lopettamassa:

Well, I think in some ways we didn’t want to pull a Seinfeld, you know what I mean? The band has actually never been more prolific and we’re as credible and popular as ever. I think whenever we’re on stage, there’s not another band in the world playing at that time that even comes close to us, and that’s our goal. We’re really excited about this new album as well, but at the same time, it’s going to be our 20-year anniversary in 2017—it might be even longer because I’m not sure when I started writing songs, but the first EP came out in ’97—so I think it’s one of those things where we didn’t want to get to the point where we’re stopping because we have to or because we’re old or people are kind of over it. Who knows if that would ever happen, but I feel way more empowered in making hard decisions. I don’t like the idea of slowing down or doing it less often, I like to just dive in full-force and take things to the extreme because that’s what this band has always been about.

Kysyttäessä onko hänen uusi Giraffe Tongue Orchestra-bändinsä korvaamassa hänen pääbändiään:

Not really because I have no intention of replacing Dillinger with GTO at all. It’s just about going off and doing these new things in life, new challenges and things like that, which may not be bands at all. The GTO thing for me was just to accomplish putting something out that’s not Dillinger, you know? I’ve been so involved in every aspect of Dillinger for 20 years that I really need to do something else, collaborate with other people and release something that isn’t only tied to Dillinger because that isn’t really healthy. [Laughs] I know mostly everyone in my phone book mostly because of this band, it’s kind of crazy.

Kysyttäessä, milloin bändi on tarkalleen lopettamassa:

We are going to do the cycle for this album and that’s it. But there are a lot of things that go into this cycle. We have a full US tour that we’ll be doing in the fall and then we’ll be doing a massive tour in Europe in the winter, and that will probably take us towards playing other areas like Australia or wherever we have to hit. Then I’m sure we’ll come back around and hit summer festivals and figure out what our very last shows will be around that time.

Voit lukea koko haastattelun tästä.