He continued: 'In the last few years, we've started to reach what felt like a thematic conclusion to our band, particularly Ben and I, where we realized that in our lives, psychologically, we were reaching a sort of a resolve and that we had used our relationship with one another and our artistic outlet together in THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN to kind of work through a lot of things as people and as a couple of people on earth. Or if you make a movie, you don't just film until you run out of film or hard-drive space, you make a decision, artistically, to say, 'Even if I'm having the best time ever making this movie, this is the end.'' But, really, what it's about is realizing thatРІР‚В¦ Say if you're a painter, you don't just paint until you run out of paint, you don't just paint until your arm falls off you make a decision that, at some point in time, you made the final brushstroke. And that's the hard part - you're making a choice to stop doing something that you love, which sounds insane to people. 'This is a really weird thing to say, but we really still do love what we do we don't love it any less, we don't love making records any less, we don't love being on stage any less.

He said (see video below): ''Extended hiatus' would lead people to believe that we think we're gonna come back. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN vocalist Greg Puciato spoke to Metal Hammer magazine about the band's plan to go on what has been billed as an 'extended hiatus' following the completion of the touring cycle in support of the group's new album, 'Dissociation'.

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