Tag Archive: Ben Weinman

Dillinger And Narrows Shaping 2012 Up For Some Great Math Metal

Dec.05, 2011

This time of year is pretty much all about looking ahead to the new year. It’s exactly the same at work; not many sales coming in, and so it is mirrored in the world of heavy music, which refuses to become enamoured and embroiled in the battle for Christmas number one, and instead lays mostly dormant (bar a few awesome offerings).

It was with great glee that I discovered today that two of the math metal scene’s greats are somewhere along the road to releasing new material.

First up, The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s frontman Greg Puciato has been tweeting during some downtime on tour with Mastodon and Red Fang to bring us news that writing for a new DEP record is occurring:

That statement may or may not please some or the other of you. I don’t care; DILLINGER ARE FUCKING WRITING!

Perhaps not as well known, but with no less of a pedigree – featuring ex members of Botch and These Arms Are Snakes – Seattle’s Narrows are much further along the road, having finished mixing of their new effort, which is sparse of details at the moment, but if it’s anything like predecessors Narrows, New Distances or their split with Heiress it will be big, loud and shit hot.

Definitely some great stuff to look out for next year. Not that we’re guaranteed the DEP next year, but there’s an outside chance, no?!

- CG

Tags: Ben Weinman, Billy Rymer, Greg Puciato, Narrows, The Dillinger Escape Plan

Whitechapel – Recorrupted

Filed Under: Reviews

Nov.09, 2011

Whitechapel

Recorrupted

01. Section 8
02. Strength Beyond Strength (Pantera Cover)
03. Breeding Violence (Big Chocolate Remix)
04. This is Exile (Ben Weinman Remix)
05. End of Flesh (Acoustic Version)

[11/08/11]
[Metal Blade]

Much like their western contemporaries in Job For A Cowboy, Knoxville sextet Whitechapel seem to be stepping a bit away from the tropes of deathcore and are making an effort at approaching the realm of death metal. We’ve seen it on 2010′s A New Era Of Corruption with increased quality of songwriting, and Recorrupted continues with the band’s signs of improvement and artistic growth.

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Tags: A New Era Of Corruption, Ben Weinman, big chocolate, Job For A Cowboy, Pantera, Recorrupted, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Whitechapel

As I Lay Dying – Decas

Filed Under: Reviews

Nov.07, 2011

As I Lay Dying

Decas

01. Paralyzed
02. From Shapeless to Breakable
03. Moving Forward
04. War Ensemble (Slayer cover)
05. Hellion (Judas Priest Cover)
06. Electric Eye (Judas Priest Cover)
07. Coffee Mug (Descendents cover)
08. Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (Re-Recorded Medley)
09. The Blinding of False Light (Innerpartysystem Remix)
10. Wrath Upon Ourselves (Benjamin Weinman Remix)
11. Confined (Kelly “Carnage” Cairns Remix)
12. Elegy (Big Chocolate Remix)

[11\08\11]
[Metal Blade]

As I’ve stated numerous times, metalcore is a stagnant genre. It’s so full of bands with rip-off styles of music that so easily hark to their influences that you’d rather listen to the original. One of these “original” bands is As I Lay Dying, who are undoubtedly one of the originators of the modern metalcore style. Ever since their first album Beneath the Encasing of Ashes, they’ve been proving their dominance in the genre. Now As I Lay Dying has been a band for 10 years, and to celebrate, they’ve rewarded us with Decas, an album with three originals, four covers, a medley from their first album, and four remixes from the likes of Ben Weinman to Big Chocolate. The ultimate question is, is it a good reward to the fans for all their dedication and love?

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Tags: As I Lay Dying, Ben Weinman, Beneath the Encasing of Ashes, big chocolate, Decas, Descendents, Innerpartysystem, Judas Priest, Metal Blade Records, Slayer, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Tim Lambesis

These Dillinger Side-Projects Are Just Piling Up!

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Sep.21, 2011

These dudes in The Dillinger Escape Plan are always up to SOMETHING. If not writing/recording/touring on Dillinger, they’re doing guest spots, remixes, collaborations, and whatever other thing that can be done as a musicians. As vocalist Greg Puciato always says, they’re on “The Rock Clock,” which gives no time for sitting around and twiddling thumbs. There’s always a face to wreck somewhere, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a band more willing and able to do that without having to ask twice.

So here’s a rundown of some stuff the dudes in Dillinger are up to which you may or may not be aware of:

Greg Puciato and Soulfly’s Max Cavalera have been working together on a project of unknown specificity. The photo above is a picture that Greg tweeted of the project’s fist demo. Who knows what it will sound like!? At any rate, it’s ~~probably~~ most definitely going to be pretty awesome. The duo have collaborated before on a Soulfly track called “Rise of the Fallen.” Check out the video for that below:

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Tags: As I Lay Dying, Ben Weinman, Greg Puciato, Ink & Dagger, Jeff Tuttle, Max Cavalera, Mike Patton, Old Gods, Red Fang, Soulfly, The Dillinger Escape Plan

As I Lay Dying Turn Ten; Does A Bunch Of Cool Stuff To Celebrate

Filed Under: General News, New music, Tours and Rumors of Tours, Upcoming releases, Video

Sep.14, 2011

As I Lay Dying have finally hit double digits this year. Can you believe the band have been around for ten years?! It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. Good lord, I’ll be 30 before I know it. God help me, it’s all downhill from here. I am not ready.

But I digress. Indeed, time does fly. As I Lay Dying are making a bit of a celebration for turning ten by releasing a compilation album called Decas, which features three new songs (one of which, “Paralyzed”, can be streamed below), some covers, remixes, and a re-recording. Neato stuff if you’re a fan! Here’s the specifics:

“Paralyzed”
“From Shapeless to Breakable”
“Moving Forward”
“War Ensemble” (originally by Slayer)
“Hellion” (originally by Judas Priest)
“Electric Eye” (originally by Judas Priest)
“Coffee Mug” (originally by Descendents)
“Beneath the Encasing of Ashes” (re-recorded medley)
“The Blinding of False Light” (Innerpartysystem remix)
“Wrath Upon Ourselves” (Ben Weinman remix)
“Confined” (Kelly “Carnage” Cairns remix)
“Elegy” (Big Chocolate remix)

Sweet! Ben Weinman (Dillinger Escape Plan) and Big Chocolate remixes. Should be cool. Decas is due out November 4th on Metal Blade. Here’s their new track “Paralyzed“:

They’ll also be embarking on a headlining tour with Of Mice & Men, The Ghost Inside, Iwrestledabearonce and Sylosis. So I suppose half the tour is worth catching! Awesome. You can catch the dates after the jump!

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Tags: As I Lay Dying, Ben Weinman, big chocolate, Descendents, Innerpartysystem, iwrestledabearonce, Judas Priest, Kelly "Carnage" Cairns, Of Mice & Men, Slayer, Sylosis, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Ghost Inside

Holy Shit, Ben Weinman Managed And Wrote Songs For Jefree Star?!

Filed Under: lolwut, Video

Jul.19, 2011

Yesterday, a 40+ minute interview with The Dillinger Escape Plan mastermind Ben Weinman (above) made its way around to other metal blogs like Metal Injection, Metalsucks, and The PRP. Naturally, as I’m a HUGE fan of Ben and Dillinger in general, I watched the whole thing. Ben touched on quite a few aspects on making it as a band, talking about his contract with Relapse, early touring, and more. It was 40-minutes well spent, and it was a very interesting interview, but he did touch on one subject that I was completely unaware of until now, and that was his involvement with dance pop cross dresser Jefree Star. For those of you who don’t have 40 minutes, here’s what Ben said:

“Right now, people are making money off of celebrity, not off of record sales. That’s something I learned very quickly. I managed, for a while, like a MySpace star… this guy Jefree Star. He’s kinda like a cross dresser… and he doesn’t have any talent, but he’s famous. In the two years that I was working with him, he was homeless working at the Mac makeup counter to now making six figures. We had no major label and we had no publicists; it was me, a booking agent, and him hustling on Myspace and hustling on the internet. He’s the biggest seller in Hot Topic. I made an EP on my laptop in like twenty minutes, it was just like dance/whatever beats. It was the number one dance record on iTunes over Justin Timberlake just by utilizing the internet and his fanbase who would just buy anything we told them to buy.”

Obviously, hearing this was pretty surprising. To think that the mastermind one of the most influential metal bands going strong today was somehow involved with horrid tripe like Jefree Star is mind-blowing. I went over to Wikipedia to check it out, and yes, Benjamin A. Weinman is credited as a writer for half of the songs on Jefree’s 2007 EP Plastic Surgery Slumber Party. In fact, he is credited as the sole writer of one track titled “Ice Cream.” What does it sound like? Listen after the jump, as I don’t want it on our front page. Tread lightly, as it could very well be the worst thing I’ve ever heard.

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Tags: Ben Weinman, Jefree Starr, The Dillinger Escape Plan

ECDEU’s Murmurs: Bromances

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Apr.30, 2010

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This is my new series of posts as of now as seeing that I wanted a new post. The last series was very random with posting and so this one will hopefully be weekly and consistent. Also, this one has less to do with anything but metal, but will actually deal with metal. So, enjoy!

Yes, welcome to the first post of ECDEU’s Murmur! If you know anything about anything, you know that Cynic is the best thing around right now (or at least that’s what I have been digging on for the past few weeks). If you know that Cynic is the best thing around right now, then you should know the song “Adam’s Murmur”, which by now, I would hope, that you have guessed to be the source for this series’ title. But other than having the common sense to love Cynic, why else name my series after that wonderful song? Well, this starts from a few weeks ago.

At Metalsucks.net, they have been posting a series called Metta Mind Journal, written by the lead singer and guitar player of Cynic, Paul Masvidal. These posts have been amazing. They are truly stepping beyond the normal blog post and stepping into the next genre of writing called novelism (which I totally just made up for the sake of flow). I honestly feel like if he just wrote a book of these little posts, the book would fly off of the shelves. I know I would buy a copy. I actually commented on one of his posts saying that he should write a book and sub-comments reveal that other Metalsuckers believe the same way I do.

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Tags: Ben Weinman, brent hinds, bromances, Cynic, Dave Mustaine, Dillinger Escape Plan, Joe Duplantier, Mastodon, Mike Patton, Paul Masvidal

Ben Wienman Makes Bring Me The Horizon Less Dreadful

Filed Under: Audio

Jan.11, 2010

Axl from Metalsucks posted this video today of Dillinger Escape Plan mastermind Ben Weinman‘s remix of some Bring Me The Horizon song. The first minute or so is BMTH’s original, but from there on after is some crazy awesome IDM cut up with samples from the song. Sounds like Aphex Twin on a good day. Most definitely an improvement. But if you’re Ben Weinman, that’s easy to do.

Speaking of Aphex Twin and Dillinger, here’s DEP’s cover of Aphex Twin’s “Come To Daddy” with Mike Patton from 2002′s Irony Is A Dead Scene, set to the original Aphex video.

There needs to be more mathcore covers of IDM songs.

- JR

Tags: Aphex Twin, Ben Weinman, bring me the horizon, Dillinger Escape Plan, Irony is a Dead Scene, Mike Patton

Dillinger Escape Plan Names New Business Label

Filed Under: Upcoming releases

Jun.18, 2009

That Phonogetic Records thing was not true, as most of us already know. But now it looks like the Dillinger label that guitarist Ben Weinman was talking about will be called Party Smasher Inc., named after a killer song from 2007′s Ire Works.

Party Smasher Inc. is the “official creative umbrella” for everything DEP related. Ben had this to say:

“After over a decade of touring and making music we have realized that there is the right way of doing things, the wrong way of doing things, and then the Dillinger way of doing things. Party Smasher Inc. will represent our collected efforts on all things Dillinger-related.”

Sounds pretty awesome to me. Their new album Option Paralysis is in the works and will be due out by early 2010 on Season Of Mist records (in association with Party Smasher Inc. of course).

- JR

Tags: Ben Weinman, ire works, option paralysis, Party Smasher Inc, Season of Mist Records, The Dillinger Escape Plan

Dillinger Escape Plan's New Album: Option Paralysis?

Filed Under: Upcoming releases

Jun.04, 2009

Word on the street has it that Mathcore giants The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s upcoming album is tentatively set to be titled Option Paralysis.

Option Paralysis apparently means “The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.“

The band will go into the studio July 20th to record the album, which will be released in partnership with Season of Mist Records and their own label, whose name has yet to be released.

Guitarist Ben Weinman said the album had a major thrash influence and an overall darker tone, saying that the music sounds like “an alien language.”

The album is supposed to be out early 2010. Hopefully we get lucky and see it sooner.

Thanks to Spreading Like Wings for the heads up.

- JR

Tags: Ben Weinman, mathcore, option paralysis, Season of Mist Records, The Dillinger Escape Plan