THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: 'Safety And Comfort Is Boring And Leads To Even More Boring Art'

January 5, 2010

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's Billy Rymer is currently offering private lessons to skilled drummers in the Long Island/New York City area, where he resides. Interested parties can contact Rymer at [email protected].

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's new album, "Option Paralysis", will be released on March 23. The opus, recorded in Orange County, California with longtime collaborator/producer Steve Evetts (THE USED, GLASSJAW, EVERY TIME I DIE),will be the debut release for the band's brand new label Party Smasher Inc./Season Of Mist. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Farewell, Mona Lisa", "Good Neighbor", "Gold Teeth On A Bum", "Crystal Morning", "I Wouldn't if You Didn't" and "A Room Full of Eyes".

Commented singer Greg Puciato: "2010 is gonna be a really big one for us.

"There's no better way for us to start a decade then by releasing a new album in the first quarter of the first year, and then by touring and playing everywhere that this big spinning rock will have us. Hopefully we'll manage to avoid self-destructing by 2011, 'cause, as I'm sure you guys can tell, we always have our finger hovering around the red button no matter how long we're around. It's the only way we know how to roll. Full speed or die. This shit ain't fun when it's safe, folks. Safety and comfort is boring and leads to even more boring art. What I'm trying to tell you guys is to sabotage your life now while you can before it's too late!!! What I'm really trying to say is that things in THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN are unbelievably great right now. We're about to unleash what we and a lot of close, longtime critical-eared friends around us all feel is our best album to date, and we're all healthy and playing furious shows lately, so let's embrace it all while it's here, 'cause given our track record, who the hell knows how fast and how long we can keep the train runnin' this time?! Let's all kick ass and make 2010 the best it can be and try to start strong, and finish even stronger than we began it. We're ready to do our part."

"Farewell, Mona Lisa", a brand new track from THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, was premiered this past Christmas exclusively on Sirius XM's Liquid Metal. A low-quality recording of the song can now be heard in the YouTube clip below.

According to guitarist Ben Weinman, "I Wouldn't if You Didn't" was one of the last songs written for the album, "taking DILLINGER to places [we] have never gone before." Meanwhile, "A Room Full of Eyes", which Ben dubs as a favorite on the album, is "one of the most intense songs we have ever written."

U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine recently reported that "Option Paralysis" will feature a guest appearance by 70-year-old Mike Garson, who has previously contributed to DAVID BOWIE's "Aladdin Sane" and NINE INCH NAILS' "The Fragile" albums.

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