Dillinger Escape Plan Finishes Recording New Album "Option Paralysis"

The Dillinger Escape Plan are set to release their new album "Option Paralysis" on March 22nd, 2010. The band has issued the following update about finishing the recording of the album:

"Jeez....has it really been three months since the last blog? Time goes by fast when you're busy SCORCHING POSEURS. Hopefully you guys all know what I'm talkin' about and the time's gone by fast for you too, and if you don't and it hasn't, SHAPE THE FUCK UP AND GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER cause that's what you should be doing at all times! Setting the proverbial flamethrower to eleven and taking aim. In fact, let that be your New Years resolution. Repeat after me: ‘I, (insert name), do solemnly swear, no matter how old and tired and worn down by idiots I may become, to make it my life's duty, to SCORCH POSEURS in whichever field I choose to operate in, no matter what it is that I'm doing...FOREVER.’ There. You just made a fucking COVENANT. Like the Jews of old, except this time the burning smell shouldn't be coming from a talking bush in the desert, it should be the stench rising up from the trail of seared dorks you leave in your wake like a just blown out match. Got it?

"Since the last checkpoint, we finished recording our new album ‘Option Paralysis’, played a bunch of killer shows with Thursday, Fake Problems, and Endless Hallway, and then capped off the decade with two exceptional shows with our buddies Gogol Bordello, Glassjaw, Thursday, and United Nations. 2010 is gonna be a really big one for us. There's no better way for us to start a decade then by releasing a new album in the first quarter(March 23) of the first year, and then by touring and playing everywhere that this big spinning rock will have us. Hopefully we'll manage to avoid self destructing by 2011, cause as I'm sure you guys can tell we always have our finger hovering around the red button no matter how long we're around. It's the only way we know how to roll. Full speed or die. This shit ain't fun when it's safe, folks. Safety and comfort is boring, and leads to even more boring art. What I'm trying to tell you guys is to SABOTAGE YOUR LIFE NOW WHILE YOU CAN BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!! What I'm really trying to say is that things in The Dillinger Escape Plan are unbelievably great right now. We're about to unleash what we and a lot of close longtime critical eared friends around us all feel is our best album to date, and we're all healthy and playing furious shows lately, so lets embrace it all while it's here 'cause given our track record who the hell knows how fast and how long we can keep the train runnin' this time. Lets all kick ass and make 2010 the best it can be and try to start strong, and finish even stronger than we began it. We're ready to do our part.

"On another note, our drummer Billy has been a man of few public words so far, since he pretty much keeps himself in a dungeon playing drums nonstop. He has, however, recently expressed a desire to share his freakish gift with others and wants to expand his super select pool of students. I don't know what the hell he and his tiny club of drum disciples do when they get together, 'cause it gets weird like a freemason society or something and they speak in code that only other drum wizards seem to understand, but if you play the drums and are already better than most and want in, he's ready to unleash the Secrets of the Skins(if any of you turn that into an X-rated film name or a documentary about Native Americans, I want royalties.) The man of few words and many paradiddles had this to say:

"‘Greetings and happy New Year to all. As we have some time off for the month of January, and some more time here and there coming up, I am currently offering private lessons to skilled drummers in the Long Island/NYC area, where I reside. If this interests you, contact me at bill.rymer@gmail.com. -Billy’

"I mean imagine him emerging out of his drum cave and saying that in a wizard's voice in a hooded cloak while waving his hand in the air. Things like ‘Greetings....to all,’ and ‘where I reside.’ He even speaks like someone who plays drums 23 of the 24 hours out of the day, and by that I mean WIZARD-LIKE. Like a wise drum wizard who plays weird shit at freakish speed. Seriously though, he sees drumming the way Neo saw the Matrix when he got all Jesus-ish, he's insane even by our high standards of mental insanity, so if you wanna take your skills to another place hit him up.

"What else? Hmm. Our tourdates on the front page are about to get...oh...I dunno, around a hundred dates longer, so keep an eye out for that, cause chances are unless you live in Yemen or on a mountaintop in Tibet we'll be heading your way this year. Only two months and some change left until our new album comes out, and we can't wait. Presales will start soon, with all kinds of options(enough to paralyze you...we're punbelievable OH!!!!) including a completely one of a kind box set that makes the Hellraiser box look like a happy meal box(I hear they're bagged now? what a crime), and ruined the lives and crushed the souls of everyone we had working on it to try to make it a reality. Happy New Year everyone, I hope you all have a good one. Become a better version of you. Talk to you sooner than later... -Greg"