Greg Puciato recently talked about his newfound lyrical freedom in The Black Queen versus his lyrics in The Dillinger Escape Plan. Now in a brand new interview with Kill Your Stereo, he talks about how Dissociation felt extremely final and why it wouldn't make sense to keep the band going.
He also talks about potential future one-off reunion shows, but Puciato's people reached out to The PRP to state "his current focus is The Black Queen (and to a lesser extent Killer Be Killed) and that there have been no internal discussions for The Dillinger Escape Plan to reunite at anytime in the future."
So keep that in mind.
“I actually just talked to Ben for the first time since we broke up. I got off the phone with him right before doing this interview actually! I’m feeling pretty fucking good, man, all things considered. And look, time just passes. I don’t know who I said this too, but I would be doing the exact same thing if the band hadn’t broken up.
We always took time off between records, and during those time periods, I would never really stop. I’m a gas pedal, so in between ‘One Of Us Is The Killer’ and ‘Disassociation’, I did both Killer Be Killed and ‘Fever Daydream’. They were only three years apart, so I was just rippin’ at all times.
The second that Dillinger ended, I was in the studio with The Black Queen, which lasted until May. From May until now, it has been a lot of record and tour logistics. That would all still be happening now if Dillinger still existed. It’s not gonna start to seem weird to me until maybe a few years from now. Whenever I listen back to a Dillinger record, I feel… really good about where we left it.
On ‘Disassociation’, right down to the final track, it all felt final. I don’t feel a need to make more songs that sound like that. It’d be like George Lucas putting more scenes in Star Wars: dude, you finished it, leave it the fuck alone. We may one day play celebration Dillinger Escape Plan shows, as we have six albums where we could play entirely different sets. But as far as creatively going, to scream more shit at people? Not right now.
I played 2,000 shows with Dillinger, so how much more energy can I give? I’m like a nuclear reactor inside. How long until someone says that I have to deal with where this is all coming from? I’ve been in therapy for the last five years, and I’ve dealt with a lot of shit behind the scenes.
Albums are like iceberg tips, little artistic tips, and underneath is a mountain of shit and you’re just given the cliff notes. That’s all stuff I’ve had to deal with and process behind-the-scenes. I just don’t have any more of it coming out of me right now.”
Puciato also touches on the prospect of new Killer Be Killed, which he says has 10 songs written from some sessions in March plus maybe some more before they hit the studio. This is pretty much exactly in line with what we've heard about the band writing new material and having a new album fairly ready to go.
“We have 10 songs that are demos, and how we proceed from here is more of a matter of scheduling and whether we agree if those ten songs are enough or if we need to write more. We have not had those conversations really because we are all busy as fuck on our other things.
We are trying to find a couple of months that we are all free and stay free. We got together in March for a couple of weeks, wrote non-stop and ended up with ten demos. I feel like we should do that again and then whittle it down to the strongest 10 of those 20. Everything takes time when it’s not your main thing.”
The Black Queen recently released their new album Infinite Games, which everyone should check out.
