Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer – New Album Details Revealed

Decibel magazine recently posted what their most anticipated albums of 2007 are, and with it included a little information on the highly anticipated new albums from two particularly interesting bands:

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: “We have pretty well-produced demos,” guitarist Ben Weinman explains, “and some prospective song titles’Saigon Whore,’ ‘Medusa,’ ‘Fix Your Fucking Face,’ ‘Doll Keeper,’ and ‘Party Smasher‘but nothing official yet. This is the first time we’re pretty much recording every idea before we even attempt to lay it down in the studio. Plus, for the first time since Calculating, we’re going to be recording a lot of this to tape, so we really need to be on the ball. Computers will definitely be used, but mostly to aid in the creative process.”

Weinman’s streamlined agenda has also assisted the aforementioned process. “The whole Miss Machine process was surrounded by a lot of band business, which really consumed me,” he offers. “I’ve cut most of that out of my life at the moment and I think it’s affecting the writing and me as a musician pretty positively. Also, to be honest, there’s been a lot of drama surrounding the band since we started really attacking the majority of the writing for this record. I think you’ll hear that fire in these songs. This album is going to be much more uncomfortable than Miss Machine. It’s time for people to be uncomfortable again. This record will molest you.”

PIG DESTROYER: “Writing and rehearsing for Phantom Limb are almost all done,” Scott Hull says from his home in Virginia, as PIG DESTROYER prepare to enter Omega Studios (immortalized by BAD BRAINS‘ The Omega Sessions) to record their fourth album. “Very different writing process this time around. I wrote and demoed all the tracks in my studio with the drum machinenot much differently than I would do with AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEEDthen presented all the songs completed to the rest of the band for practice.”

The guitarist and producer has been doing a lot of practicing on his own as of late: “I’ve been doing a lot of studying at Omega with their engineers and in their rooms,” he explains. “I’m slowly putting myself in the position to produce bands, which is something I’ve never really been prepared to do. I produced PHOBIA’s Cruel this year and had a good experience. I’ve grown in the process of completing some movie scores as well. One of which, for a film called Sanctified, really put my music knowledge to the test as the score includes a lot of actual orchestral pieces I had to compose.”

While the band’s signature metagrind attack remains more or less intact, Hull notes that Phantom Limb will be “leaner, meaner than Terrifyer, more metal, a little burlier. At the same time I think the songs are better, just because of the change in the writing process. Plus, Blake Harrison, our noise and sample guy, really adds to the chaos. Not to mention, since Terrifyer we’ve really gotten eggheaded about gear and defining what sounds we want to get. As Todd Barry would say; ‘This shit’s going to be slicker than a YES album.’”

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