“you are nothing/without my affection/you wilt/we are fucked/like a nuclear war release.”
Like a musical kinship to a pathogen Dillinger Escape Plan has stood gazing into their own destruction, and they’ve laughed — much like how they combust into smiles live — wanting to push everything they’ve had further. No remorse in the wake.
I’ve always had a fondness for the band, actually toss that out the window. I feel something more towards the band. maybe it’s the fact I witnessed a circle jerk in a back room one of the first times I saw the band. A cluster of twenty somethings sporting clothes too big and matching stretched ears all in position. Pulling, stroking, laughing, and coming as the songs played in the next room. Their lust cataloged to feel a friend’s shoulder touch their skin as their pelvic muscles thrusted in one motion. As a machine creating a mess no one would have cleaned up.
One of the band’s most striking songs ‘Sunshine The Werewolf‘ has now been explained by frontman Greg Puciato. Enjoy the band or not the decaying nature of the song deserves respect in terms of writing.
The idea came after an article was sent to Greg. “It was a perverse and disgusting article about a strange and extreme subculture of people who would deliberately “give” and “receive” HIV in order to romantically share an eventually fatal disease(queen sized coffin built for two). The lyrics were fiction, and written from the perspective of the “giver”, who then turned out to have tricked the smitten “receiver” into thinking their love was forever before instead moving on to someone else(there’ll be another just like you…you’re not the only one, etc), sadistically leaving the receiver feeling tricked and scorned…the receiver eventually repeating the cycle as a giver. HIV vampires basically. A metaphor for people passing abuse forward in relationships.”
