New Dillinger Escape Plan in 2006 + insight into Major labels

Posted by xre on 29/09/05

The Dillinger Escape Plan are currently writing songs for the follow up to "Miss Machine". The album is currently looking out to be released in late 2006.

In related news, The Dillinger Escape Plan frontman was recently interview about, well, pretty much anything. Here's a short clip of the interview:

Paul: Would you jump to a major?

Greg: We talked to a few. We had a bunch of majors trying to buy us off of Relapse. They offered us tons of money, like over a million dollars. They would always come to our shows and be really weird and like, “You can do whatever you want, we're going to give you all this money” and we're like “You're not going to do that. Have you seen us play? Have you heard our stuff? There's no way you'll give us that much money to let us do this.” They'd always be like “Yeah, yeah, that's fine” but finally, the closer we started to get to signing papers, they'd try to pull shit on you. “Here's the deal, you have to tone down when you play live, someone's going to get hurt and we're going to get sued.” I was just like, “What?” We talked to Universal and they said they wanted to bring in hit writers, they were going to bring in the guys who write songs for, like, Disturbed, to make sure that you have a hit on your record. Just to make sure that when we put out an album, it'll sell at least this many copies so we don't lose any money. We were so naïve to to really even be talking to them in the first place. I mean, Relapse is great, they just don't have the distribution. Even Ferret and Trustkill have better distribution. When Every Time I Die's new stuff came out, it was everywhere, it was in the endcaps at Best Buy and all that. When our record came out, I went to Best Buy and found like two of them. It wasn't because people had bought the other thirty or something, it was because they only had two of them. Relapse works really hard, they just don't have the resources.

It offers some great insight on what the Major labels do to bands. I didn't even know that Disturbed had a hit writer behind them. This makes me very, very scared of what Mastodon's next album will sound like, as they've recently signed with Warner Brothers.

Read the entire inteview right here.

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