THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN‘s Greg Puciato told Noisecreep that the band will release its new Sumerian Records album in April/May and offered the following thoughts on today’s musical inspirations within rock and metal music:
โโฆI donโt think thereโs much exciting going on in rock or metal or much guitar based music right now. I think that most of the frontiers that are being broken are being broken in electronic music โ which is producing a lot of garbage too. But I do think there is some exciting stuff as far as people doing new things. You canโt re-invent the same thing over and over again. Rock was the first thing that happened and after that came metal and punk and hardcore. Then hip-hop came and that was the big wave of the โ90s and the 2000s.
I think now, the generation thatโs doing the most interesting stuff is doing it in the electronic world, which I donโt think is necessarily a good or bad thing. It is what it is. Most of the stuff that Iโm finding completely crazy is coming from genres that are completely different than the ones weโre normally associated with. People doing a lot of crazy stuff with soundscapes and beats, a lot of which has found its way into the mainstream: which is responsible for dub step which I donโt hate all of it.
It produces crap like any genre. People say โDub-step sucks.โ Thatโs like saying โmetal sucks.โ It doesnโt suck; itโs simply that most of the stuff that hits the most people sucks because itโs generally the most watered down and common denominator.
On the production of things, if you listen to a mainstream pop song, thereโs a lot of weird shit that people are doing that didnโt happen ten years ago โ panning things weird ways and putting weird filters on drums. In major pop songs that would not have happened ten years ago that are coming from underground electronic music and working their way into the mainstream.
The interesting thing thatโs happening right now is that everything is becoming relevant simultaneously because people have access to everything at the same time. You donโt have kids anymore that only listen to metal or only listen to rap. You have kids who skateboard, wearing Trash Talk shirts but who also listen to Kanye West.โ
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Here’s another chat with Greg. Check it out, too.
