{"id":118,"date":"2011-11-18T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T23:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=118"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:49:26","slug":"interview-diamond-plate-discuss-touring-debut-album-burgers-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2011\/11\/18\/interview-diamond-plate-discuss-touring-debut-album-burgers-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Diamond Plate Discuss Touring, Debut Album &#038; Burgers (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"dp\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/229327_221020537908555_191893267487949_925362_5820812_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having released a hugely impressive debut full-length &#8220;Generation Why?&#8221; on Earache Records this year, Chicago thrashers Diamond Plate have been rather actively living life on the road, with extensive tours across North America. First, they completed a tour with Kittie and Dirge Within, and then jumped straight onto a tour with Warbringer, Lazarus A.D. and Landmine Marathon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This tour kicked off at Hollywood&#8217;s Key Club on October 3rd, and before the show I caught up with guitarist Konrad Kupiec and vocalist\/bassist Jon Macak to talk about the new album, touring, the positives and negatives of being signed to a label, burgers, and lots more. Listen to the 9-minute conversation below, and check out the band&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/diamondplate1\" target=\"_blank\">facebook page<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<div><object width=\"300\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fdiamond-plate-interview-with-konrad-kupiec-jon-macak%2F&amp;embed_uuid=4ccf523b-885a-4ac3-bdab-b893d97e24ca&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"300\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fdiamond-plate-interview-with-konrad-kupiec-jon-macak%2F&amp;embed_uuid=4ccf523b-885a-4ac3-bdab-b893d97e24ca&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 3px 4px; color: #999;\"><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/diamond-plate-interview-with-konrad-kupiec-jon-macak\/#utm_source=widget&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond Plate: Interview With Konrad Kupiec &amp; Jon Macak<\/a><span> by <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/#utm_source=widget&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\">Metalassault<\/a><span> on <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/#utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal Having released a hugely impressive debut full-length &#8220;Generation Why?&#8221; on Earache Records this year, Chicago thrashers Diamond Plate have been rather actively living life on the road, with extensive tours across North America. First, they completed a tour with Kittie and Dirge Within, and then jumped straight onto a tour with Warbringer, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2011\/11\/18\/interview-diamond-plate-discuss-touring-debut-album-burgers-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Diamond Plate Discuss Touring, Debut Album &#038; Burgers (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}