Just when you thought The Dillinger Escape Plan’s show this Sunday at rock club Great Scott would be the most surprising bit of news from the veteran New Jersey experimental metal and mathcore band, word surfaces today that they’re calling it quits.
But fear not, the Sunday show in Allston isn’t the absolute end — Dillinger Escape Plan will bow out after the October 14 release of, and subsequent touring cycle behind, new album Dissociation. The news does mark the end point after 20 years of musical fury.
“Well, I think in some ways we wanted to pull a Seinfeld,” guitarist Ben Weinman tells Noisey, in reference towards going out on top of their game. “We’re really excited about this new album as well, but at the same time, it’s going to be our 20-year anniversary in 2017 — it might be even longer because I’m not sure when I started writing songs, but the first EP came out in ’97 — so I think it’s one of those things where we didn’t want to get to the point where we’re stopping because we have to or because we’re old or people are kind of over it. Who knows if that would ever happen, but I feel way more empowered in making hard decisions. I don’t like the idea of slowing down or doing it less often, I like to just dive in full-force and take things to the extreme because that’s what this band has always been about.”
The band’s other various side projects, including Weinman’s Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, will carry on, and each member has other things and ideas they want to explore. “It’s just about going off and doing these new things in life, new challenges and things like that, which may not be bands at all.”
Listen to Dissociation single “Limerent Death” below, and raise a glass at the smoldering pile of rubble Great Scott will be on Monday morning.
