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The Dillinger Escape Plan

Extreme metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan have a hotly anticipated East Coast tour coming up. "Personally I would love to go to Perth and I would love to go to Adelaide," says vocalist Greg Puciato "I don't really know why we're not. Let everyone know that I wish we were going!" That reality is not as funny as Dillinger's infamous '99 tour with Mr Bungle. Puciato was not in the band at time, but he reported that "someone threw a garbage can at Ben [Weinemann] while he was on stage".

The Dillinger Escape Plan have also been writing for the follow-up to One Of Us Is The Killer. "Three months ago we didn't have any songs and now we've got maybe five, like, five pretty-close-to-done songs so I think we're looking at November-December to record if we stay on this page." As for the content of the record, Puciato reports that "right now we have these four or five songs that are all really, really fast or aggressive, more what people think when they hear Dillinger Escape Plan, those kind of songs. It's really hard to tell because that vibe is really natural right now. If we get to ten [songs] and that's how they all come out then that's how the album will be!"

Puciato's side-project Killer Be Killed would love to return to Australia, although a new record seems more likely than touring as the only upcoming time off is in January 2016. Puciato is also excited to talk about The Black Queen, a project that has been under wraps since 2011. "It just kind of came from necessity. The last Dillinger record was a little intense for me, even the melodic songs were a purging of negativity for me and I had to have some kind of counterbalance to it." This comes as no surprise, as the released material shows The Black Queen is a departure from Dillinger material. "I had a lot of melodic stuff lying around in Dillinger that wasn't the same vibe and then once I met Josh [Eustis] we became really fast friends and had a lot of the same ideas. We've lived together for the past three years and it's really crazy to me that people are only just finding out about it because behind the scenes we've had the name, the name of the album, a bunch of the songs — they've all been around for years!"

Puciato recently made a guest vocal performance, and a new friendship, with Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe. Puciato and Blythe had been fans of each other's work for years, so when mutual connection producer Josh Wilbur, who helmed both Sturm Und Drang and the Killer Be Killed debut, called him up it was a no brainer. "I went down to the studio and we knocked it out in about 45 minutes. Randy and I ended up becoming really good friends! We text each other literally every other day now and we have a lot of the same ideas about wanting to do things that are different than what we're known for. Just our artistic trajectory in general, doing a lot of photography and the both of us disappearing from social media, we had a lot of stuff to talk about."