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THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Signs With SEASON OF MIST - May 27, 2009
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN has inked a deal with Season Of Mist Records. The band's fourth studio album will be released in early 2010 in collaboration with the band's brand new label, Phonogetic Records.

Commented guitarist Ben Weinman: "It is becoming clear that as the music industry standard continues to morph and change on a daily basis, artistic and operational freedom has become a band's most valuable asset. 100% free of all previous contractual ties, DILLINGER is in an amazing position to collaborate with some interesting partners which will continue to nurture the ethic that we have been doing our best to stay true to for over 10 years now. While touring Europe in support of our record 'Ire Works', I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Berberian, distributor and owner of the independent record label Season of Mist. It quickly became clear that we had very similar ideas about DILLINGER's music and its place in the underground. Season of Mist has always been a leader in releasing some of the most extreme and interesting metal and experimental music. We look forward to releasing our next full length effort in association with Season of Mist as the very first chapter of this new journey. Also, Michael's last name almost spells out Barbarian which Greg was really excited about."

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, humourous. 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."

A free THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN remix EP (limited to 500 hand-numbered CDs) will be included with the next limited-edition DILLINGER shirt. It will contain remixes and interpretations of DILLINGER songs from artists such as THE FLASHBULB, IGOR CAVALERA, ATTICUS ROSS, NANOS OPERETTA, and THE CASSETTES.

Check out www.myspace.com/dillingerescapeplan for info on the t-shirt/remix EP package.

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COMMENT | not surprising
 posted by : haunted
5/27/2009 11:54:10 AM

I thought they would sign to a new label after their contract was up with relapse. It must be though for relapse to lose one of their more popular bands. First they lost mastodon, then nile, now DEP. those bands probably sold more records then the rest of their roster combined.

COMMENT |
posted by : rds
5/27/2009 12:12:04 PM

i am glad Relapse let these bands go, mainly because these bands are drifting further from their original sound and are becoming more and more mainstream (with the exception of NILE)
now maybe Relapse with concentrate on getting back to the basics, and finding more extreme undergrind.
COMMENT | Interesting...
 posted by : Viking Christ
5/27/2009 1:25:00 PM

Relapse loses Mastodon, Nile, Suffocation, High on Fire, and now Dillinger Escape Plan. Those are some big names. Mastodon doing to a major label isn't a big surprise but the others moved to other indie labels. I wonder what's going on with Relapse.
COMMENT | But here's the rub
 posted by : BroadwayJoeFYVM
5/27/2009 1:32:57 PM

DEP is trying NOT to be mainstream. I've been saying this for a while now, that when "Ire Works" came out and it actually sold well while still remaining as diverse, challenging, and essentially confusing a record as DEP usually puts out, did Ben take a look around and see the mass acceptance and acclaim as somehow 'selling out'? Since then Ben and Greg have done a lot to distance themselves from "Ire Works", though they're trying really hard to make it look otherwise. Dissing and dismissing Gil Sharone, dropping Relapse, playing in basements, talking all kinds of shit that would only alienate a lot of new fans - what else could it be? Ben got scared, simple as that.
COMMENT | ^^
 posted by : nyetfall82
5/27/2009 2:21:54 PM

regardless of what a band that's been around as long as DEP has and plays the type of metal that they play does, they get shit on by fans (old or new). I think that's worth considering, that at this point they can't do a damn thing without alienating somebody. DEP has always been a band that gets great reviews without the record sales to back them up. Whoever is saying they sell 'well' is wrong, they'll be the first people to tell you that. They're a band that's always on the cusp of that kind of success, but never gets over the hurtle.

I think at this point they don't really give a crap one way or the other and are just doing whatever they want to do. I'm pumped for a new album and happy to see them on a more independent label. Now if only Chris Pennie wasn't in that damndable Coheed and Cambria...

COMMENT | wow
 posted by : black thirteen
5/27/2009 3:40:48 PM

relapse has lost so many good bands over the past 3 years. ah well, the industry is outdated anyways. i always thought dillinger would pull a NIN and just release shit digitally anyways at some point.



COMMENT | Relapse
 posted by : patlapse
5/27/2009 8:31:31 PM

Relapse Will be fine. Bands come and go. New Baroness and Black Anvil records coming as well as Dying Fetus and Necrophagist.
Ben has always been a think outside the box kind of guy and hopefully they can pull it off.
COMMENT |
posted by : Rotting Elvis Pt. 6
5/27/2009 9:41:37 PM

Pat, that may be the case but surely no one is happy about this. Oh well... at least you guys still have Origin.
COMMENT | What I said was.....
 posted by : BroadwayJoeFYVM
5/28/2009 2:46:05 AM

That "Ire Works" seemed to sell better than previous albums. And that it was very well-received by the critics as well. The only stat that I've been able to dredge up so far was that 11k copies of "Ire Works" were sold on its debut week. In today's times, that's a top-40 debut on the Billboard Pop Chart. I'd wager that the current total in North America is somewhere around 100 - 150k sold so far, with perhaps another 70 - 100k sold in Europe. For an indie band, really for any Relapse artists, that's a whole hell of a lot of records. And if there's a band that deserves any kind of commercial success, it's DEP. I've seen Ben's van (can't be anybody else's, I would think), that old fartbox is one spicy-bean burrito (vegan, to be sure) away from total annihilation.
COMMENT |
posted by : TheGreyArea
5/28/2009 5:25:38 AM

Relapse will be fine. They've got MEGAtalent like Obscura still repping for them

Dillinger obviously value their independance and artistic freedome. Relapse appear to be going back down a more "Trad Death / grind" road. Dillinger aren't. which is great for both parties! But stifling if forced upon each of them.

Ire works WAS far more publicly accessible. A lot more palatable to more commercial crowds (in places). And seeing that the boys have still refused to really cash-in on that (they could have easily pitched at a more commercial moneyspinning label after that LP. Possibly even a major) fills me with a lot of pride for being a long time fan. They've clearly declined the "easy road" with this move and opted for another Indy, just to retain their art

Anyway. Enough of my dick rubbing on this

I'll let all you haters take back over this thread


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