THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Guitarist Interviewed At Poland's KNOCK OUT Festival

July 29, 2009

Terrorizer magazine's Jenn Selby conducted an interview with guitarist Ben Weinman of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN at this year's Knock Out festival, which was held on July 11-12, 2009 in Krakow, Poland. Watch the chat below.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN recently inked a deal with Season Of Mist Records. The band's fourth studio album, Option Paralysis", will be released in early 2010 in collaboration with the band's brand new label.

According to Weinman, the group's new "official creative umbrella" for all things THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN has been dubbed Party Smasher Inc. He states, "After over a decade of touring and making music we have realized that there is the right way of doing things, the wrong way of doing things, and then the DILLINGER way of doing things. Party Smasher Inc. will represent our collected efforts on all things DILLINGER-related."

Ben recently spoke to U.K.'s Rock Sound magazine about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the new album. "The new songs sound dark and evil," he stated. "Very early '90s thrash-influenced.

"Lately I have been realizing the purpose of why I started DILLINGER all those years ago. It was to make people truly uncomfortable and to make them not feel accepting of what is happening in their surroundings. When I was growing up, I discovered metal and it interested me, I liked that it was dark and talked about the fact that the world is not all puppy dogs and ice cream cones. But then it just got ridiculous, humorous. I look at black metal bands and they are supposed to be so evil. But it's not real. It's about fiction. About goblins and the gates of hell; pretty much a bad horror movie.

"The music we are writing is influenced by the feelings I get when I hear and see the real evils of this world. Horrible things that make me really question if there is a God or not. This shit is not comfortable, the world is not comfortable, babies are getting raped in your town for God's sake. Young girls are being sold as sex slaves, but most people sitting at their computers downloading music don't want to know. They want to sit on a message board or play fantasy football while their mommy makes them a sandwich."

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