{"id":577425,"date":"2026-04-01T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:45:10","slug":"greg-puciato-weighs-in-on-whether-hed-ever-reunite-with-the-dillinger-escape-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577425\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Puciato Weighs in on Whether He’d Ever Reunite with The Dillinger Escape Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

With The Dillinger Escape Plan<\/a> having toured all over the place for the last couple years celebrating Calculating Infinity with original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis<\/a>, some fans have continued to ask the obvious question: what about Greg Puciato? The question on everyone\u2019s mind really should be, \u201cwould Greg Puciato ever come back to TDEP?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, we now have a bit of an answer from the man himself, as Puciato addressed the question while speaking with Lochlan Watt on Music Is My Life<\/a> (as transcribed by Blabbermouth<\/a>). And what we got was a lengthy, albeit in-depth, look into his thought process about the end of Dillinger and his relationship with the band he fronted from 2001 to 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard [not to] because it\u2019s in your face all the time. It\u2019s in my face all the time. It\u2019s impossible [not to think about it]. Every single show, there\u2019s people with the shirts, every single show there\u2019s people outside that [have] a record [for me] to sign. They\u2019ve got Ire Works, they\u2019ve got One Of Us Is The Killer, or they\u2019re asking me about it. But I\u2019m proud of it. I\u2019m not, like, \u2018Fuck, that\u2019s not me anymore. No one talk to me about that.\u2019 I\u2019m proud of it. It made both of our, and everyone involved, lives possible to a degree. Everything that anyone who is majorly important in that band has done since stemmed from our involvement with each other. So I look at it positively. There\u2019s not a single ounce of me that has any negativity towards it. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, yeah, I would say that every day of my life, I\u2019m aware of it, but I\u2019m not thinking about it, if that makes sense. Because you can\u2019t \u2014 you need to let yourself be who you are right now. I think the only way to do that is to keep looking forward. You can be aware of what happened behind you, but you don\u2019t wanna like turn around and look at it. Just kind of be aware of it. It\u2019s no different to me than high school or middle school or elementary school. You know that you went through it, it\u2019s a huge part of your development, you\u2019re proud of everything that happened during that time, or an ex or something like that, but you gotta keep going that way.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

We get older, we change and that\u2019s ultimately for the best. Read ya loud and clear, man. But what about his thoughts about Minakakis\u2019 return to the band? Surely he\u2019s got some thoughts about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalculating Infinity is massively important. I bought it the day it came out. I was a fan of that band\u2026 But, yeah, Dimitri was perfect on that record. That record\u2019s got a vibe that, unlike all of our other records, it\u2019s a very isolated vibe, whereas after that, we started becoming a different band, where we had pretty much a lot of different possibilities vocally and creatively. But I think that that record is so pointed \u2014 it\u2019s such a pointed vibe \u2014 and for me it\u2019s still cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so funny \u2019cause people expect me to have some negative [opinion of what they are doing], like, \u2018Fuck that.\u2019 But I wasn\u2019t on that record. What would be goofy is if I was included in that. I don\u2019t have anything to do with that record. Why would I go out and play that record? If they\u2019re doing like a playthrough of that record, I don\u2019t need to be there just for the fuck of it. If they went out and did a Miss Machine playthrough, or a One Of Us Is The Killer playthrough\u2026 I mean, they, obviously that\u2019s not gonna happen, but\u2026\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Puciato fronted the band for 16 years, with his final album being the 2016 album Dissociation. That album ended up getting a year long tour, with the band playing three final shows at New York City\u2019s Terminal 5. As for whether he\u2019d ever join the band to celebrate one of the albums he was on, Puciato sounded less sure that it would be a thing at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something about doing that, to me, that you really gotta put a cap on it if you were to do it. I feel like it would be a concession in a way to like be, like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m no longer\u2026\u2019 That\u2019s what I used to think. I would be, like, \u2018Oh, I, I need to be creatively valid now.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t really interest me, \u2019cause it takes a lot of your time to do that. And I have a lot of gas for doing new things. I wanna write new music. I wanna write new songs, do new things, collaborate with new people. I\u2019m excited about music, I\u2019m excited about art, and I\u2019m excited about singing. You already have to drag around something you already did when you go on tour. We already were playing songs from 15 years ago when the band was still going. We were playing Panasonic Youth every night, and it started to become, like, \u2018Fucking hell, man. How many times\u2026?\u2019 \u2026 So you gotta step away. So when the band ended, I would\u2019ve told you no way. There\u2019s no fucking way. It\u2019s gonna take too much of my time. I came outta that band just feeling like I was shot out of a rocket and like I had so much fuel for doing new shit. There was no question. I wasn\u2019t, like, \u2018What am I gonna do now?\u2019 I was filled with fuel.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow \u2014 would I do it? I wouldn\u2019t do a Miss Machine playthrough, \u2019cause I think that\u2019s a little weird. There\u2019s no real need. They\u2019re doing a one album playthrough, because that\u2019s the only album really that there is [with Dimitri], besides the EPs and stuff. It would have to encapsulate everything from Miss Machine to Dissociation, and it would have to have a cap on it. Because the more you start doing that \u2014 it\u2019s easy money too, and then you\u2019re, like, you start feeling, like, you\u2019re getting this money, but your life is passing. I\u2019m 46 almost, and it\u2019s, like, what am I gonna do? Do it for a couple years, then suddenly you\u2019re 48. You can\u2019t let it take up too much of your time. You gotta just keep doing new things. And then you get hooked\u2026 There is something about it where you have to feel good about the fact that you got enough new things going that that\u2019s not your whole identity anymore, and you could still go back to it without it sucking up all your time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With The Dillinger Escape Plan having toured all over the place for the last couple years celebrating Calculating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,252336,136,100775],"class_list":{"0":"post-577425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-greg-puciato","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-the-dillinger-escape-plan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}