The Dillinger Escape Plan News

Sum 41 , Andrew W.K. , Motion City Soundtrack and The All-American Rejects lead the initial list of acts announced for next summer's edition of the Van's Warped Tour .

Well alright! Vans made the first lineup announcement Friday of the bands that will be playing on the 2010 Vans Warped Tour .

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN vocalist Greg Puciato recently spoke to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine about his collaboration with Max Cavalera for the forthcoming SOULFLY album.

HARDCORE BAND Thursday may not have put out any singles from its critically acclaimed release, " Common Existence ," but that's not because the band doesn't think the album is any good.

Just before Dillinger Escape Plan took the stage at Pop's on Saturday night, an ominous, low rumble emanated from the PA, rattling the entire venue and its contents with the force of a jet engine.

In this week's paper, D.X. Ferris chatted with Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman.

The two latest The Dillinger Escape Plan track names to be announced off the upcoming Option Paralysis album, in stores March 23, 2010, will be " Gold Teeth On A Bum " and " Crystal Morning ." The previously announced " Good Neighbor " and " Farewell, Mona Lisa " are being played during their live set on their current US tour with Thursday .

Fan-filmed video footage of critically acclaimed rockers THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN performing a new song, "Farewell, Mona Lisa" , on December 5, 2009 in Syracuse, New York can be viewed below.

Barbara of Melbourne, Australia's "1700" conducted an interview with the Miami, Florida-based metalcore band POISON THE WELL when the group played in Melbourne in October 2009.

The Dillinger Escape Plan have unveiled the titles of two tracks on their upcoming album.

South Carolina's THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD has posted a new song, titled "The Manifest" , on the band's MySpace page .

Guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier of French progressive metallers GOJIRA has recorded a guest appearance on the forthcoming fourth album from Swiss noise-mongers KRUGER , entitled "For Death, Glory And The End Of The World" . According to KRUGER , Duplantier laid down "a few main vocal parts" in the song "Muscle" . "For Death, Glory And The End ...

RevolverMag.com has posted a short interview with Grace Perry , vocalist of Phoenix, Arizona's death metal/grind titans LANDMINE MARATHON , as she took a break from her cover shoot for Revolver magazine's "Hottest Chicks In Metal Of All Time" issue, which is out now.

A teaser for "Destroy" , the new video from the Japanese hardcore/metal act EDGE OF SPIRIT , can be viewed below.

Video footage of BARONESS singer/guitarist John Baizley talking about his his first gallery show, "The Art of John Baizley" can be viewed below .

Stardust conducted an interview with vocalist Oli Sykes of U.K. metallers BRING ME THE HORIZON when the band played Ybor City, Florida on September 27, 2009.

Spartacus Brown of Swigged! conducted an interview with Matt Kean and Lee Malia of U.K. metallers BRING ME THE HORIZON before the band hit the stage in Atlanta, Georgia on September 29 as part of the Epitaph Tour 2009 .

This just in the Kanye West / Lady Gaga "Fame Kills" tour has officially been scraped.

Phoenix death/grind quintet LANDMINE MARATHON has set "Sovereign Descent" as the title of its new album, due in early 2010 via Prosthetic Records .

Thursday , The Dillinger Escape Plan and Fake Problems will spend December touring North America together.