After having spent the past 10 years making us all wait 3 or 4 years between studio albums, The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced that they're hitting the studio this summer, before any of us finished scraping our brains off the floor from hearing Ire Works. In a blog post the size of some college dissertations, DEP write:
We're writing, we've loosely set aside June and July 2009 for recording with Steve Evetts, and we're looking forward to/getting ready to absolutely rip in the new year. We've got Australia booked for late Feb/early March, and we'll more than likely be doing some stateside stuff as well around that time, maybe some US shows before we go down under, we'll see.
Yes! Play some US shows! And, what's this?
Oh, yeah, just out of curiosity…what's everyone's favorite Dillinger song? Is there a song you wish we would play live that we don't ever seem to? I'm curious…we've got a lot of different shit out now and it's interesting to hear what you have to say about it all. You guys hear a lot of our opinions about everything under the sun but we don't get to hear yours too much….we're trying to make this whole blogging process a bit more interactive, because we actually DO give a shit and feel a kinship with our fans and don't just think of you guys/gals as soundscans or ticket sales like I was saying before, so with that in mind I am envisioning these blogs kinda turning into little mini message boards in the comments, a roundtable so to speak, so if you say something relevant pertaining to our blog posts, check back on here later, we may comment on your comment.
Wow. I can't decide whether to flood their site with requests for "Sandbox Magician," or to beg them to make their "Hot for Teacher" cover a staple.
There's a lot more in the post, including rants on the new Metallica and Guns N' Roses, metal shirts for dogs, the US Presidential Election, singer Greg Puciato's work on the Spylacopa EP and a take on filesharing. Vote for songs to play live here, where you can also read the rest of the story.
