51 Facts About Greg Puciato

Greg Puciato is the lead singer of the Black Queen, Better Lovers, and Killer Be Killed, in which he plays guitar.

Greg Puciato is noted for the intensity of his live performances, wide vocal and stylistic range, outspoken views, and controversy stemming from his bands' performances and interviews.

Greg Puciato's parents owned many vinyl records by artists such as Elton John, Bee Gees, Prince, Black Sabbath, Mitch Miller and Molly Hatchet, as well as an old victrola, and they bought him a small 7-inch record player.

In early 1990, Greg Puciato went "through a really rapid musical evolution," broadening his taste to bands such as Faith No More and Primus.

Greg Puciato recorded his first cassette at thirteen, performing original music with his best friend who was a drummer.

When he was a teenager, Greg Puciato began to write abstract poetry, his first passion in parallel to songwriting.

At the age of fourteen, Greg Puciato started singing for a thrash metal group.

Greg Puciato was a good student and skipped grades, graduating one month after he turned 17.

Greg Puciato went to college in Maryland and after a year of studying he took a break, during which he was invited to join the Dillinger Escape Plan.

Greg Puciato joined mathcore band the Dillinger Escape Plan in September 2001 and first performed with the group weeks later at the CMJ music conference in October 2001.

Greg Puciato had already played in some bands from the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, but, at that time, he preferred to refine his vocal style than commit full-time to a band, and waited for the "right opportunity" to do so.

Greg Puciato sent in a tape with one version of him mimicking Dimitri Minakakis and one with his own take on the song.

Greg Puciato was contacted shortly after by the band, auditioned in person, and was asked to join.

Coincidentally, the band's first release with Greg Puciato was for a Black Flag tribute compilation, where they covered "Damaged I and II".

Greg Puciato was involved with Spylacopa, an experimental musical project headed by Candiria guitarist John LaMacchia.

Later in February 2011, Max Cavalera, in an interview with Swedish magazine Metalshrine, revealed that he and Greg Puciato were working on a full-length album, similar in style to Cavalera's Nailbomb project.

In June 2018, Greg Puciato announced the formation of the record label and art collective Federal Prisoner, as well as its first release, the Black Queen's second album Infinite Games.

On March 1,2020, Greg Puciato premiered the single "Fire For Water" on BBC Radio 1, featuring Dillinger original drummer Chris Pennie.

In 2003, Greg Puciato was set to sing on The Calculus of Evil album by technical death metal band Psychotegen, but ultimately Mike Harris from Misery Index filled that role.

Greg Puciato's position was mainly considered as temporary studio work due to his priorities with the Dillinger Escape Plan, and the band never played any concerts.

Greg Puciato has on occasion joined Soulfly and Devin Townsend on stage to sing his parts.

In January 2015, Greg Puciato appeared as a murderer in the Retox video "Let's Not Keep in Touch", in which he chases and kills Retox guitar player Michael Crain with a baseball bat, before dumping him out of a van which frontman Justin Pearson is driving.

In December 2016, Greg Puciato appeared as a dancing shadow figure in the Drab Majesty video "39 By Design".

Greg Puciato wrote the foreword for Jesse Draxler's June 2018 visual arts book Misophonia.

Greg Puciato's techniques cover crooning, screaming and, as stated by Ultimate Guitar, "so many different noises and sounds that don't even present themselves as human", comparing him with a "computer".

Greg Puciato is a film score and video game music fan, and, as of 2005, Puciato had created several programmed pieces and instrumentals with his bandmate Chris Pennie, and until 2008 with musician John LaMacchia, but since then he has focused on his traditional writing ability.

The main influences on Greg Puciato's guitar playing were thrash metal and shredding.

Greg Puciato "couldn't get enough of words or sounds" and he believes that those traits, along with his ADD, predisposed his inclination to music and performance.

Greg Puciato is a self-taught musician and, starting as a teen, he recorded himself on an eight-track recorder for many years, analyzing his vocal performances, trying to improve them and integrate the styles of singers he admired into his own, as well as practiced scales and exercises.

Greg Puciato follows the same approach in writing for the Black Queen, characterized by moody synths and electronics, and the Dillinger Escape Plan, featuring dissonant, complex rhythms and abrupt changes, despite the stylistic disparity of both bands.

Greg Puciato tends to seek the "big picture" of his pieces under development instead of going through them detail by detail; the latter is a common procedure used by some of his musical partners and Puciato believes that both methods balance out the "flipside of their [respective] strengths".

Greg Puciato writes poems and prose independently of his music, and all of them are to varying degrees autobiographical, putting as much emphasis on the patterns and melodies of the songs as on their lyrics, and discarding those which "mean nothing" to him.

Greg Puciato seemed fearless and indestructible, routinely climbing up PA stacks and diving off two floors of upper balconies.

Greg Puciato was physically looming and cut, bulletproof and cool, with the brooding intensity of Henry Rollins cloned three times.

At their June 22,2002 performance at Krazy Fest 5 at Louisville Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky, Greg Puciato set their guitar cabinets on fire, threw them into the Ohio River and leaped off into the water, unaware that the undertow could have pulled him deep beneath the surface and consequently drowned him.

At the 2002 edition of the Reading Festival in the United Kingdom, Greg Puciato defecated onstage, put it into a bag, and threw it into the crowd before smearing the rest onto himself, proclaiming "This is a bag of shit, I just wanted to show you this so you'll recognize it later on throughout the day" referring to other bands that would appear that day of the festival, particularly Puddle of Mudd and Hoobastank.

At the Los Angeles House of Blues, opening for Cavalera Conspiracy in 2008, Greg Puciato jumped into the VIP section and threw a chair to a security guard who was "roughing up" a fan, giving rise to a near-riot, the audience beginning to throw objects and the other guards trying to drag the singer off the stage for the rest of their set.

Since the Dillinger Escape Plan broke up in December 2017, Greg Puciato has only released limited editions of his records and products, such as his book, as he had already done with the first Black Queen album.

Greg Puciato's fixed interest in limitation was inspired by his discovery and purchase of a 1987 first pressing of Soundgarden's debut release Screaming Life, which was limited to 500 copies and became a cherished record to Greg Puciato after Chris Cornell's death, and the 8-track bootleg Live at Slim's by Melvins, that only had 100 copies.

Greg Puciato has avoided doing unnecessary advertisements or "constantly be forcing conversation" for his upcoming projects, and uses social media scantily in this aspect.

Greg Puciato cited his discomfort with the cold weather of the American East Coast as the main reason.

Greg Puciato is a voracious reader and has taken several online courses at California State University, Long Beach amidst his career, including classes on psychology, sociology and economy.

From around 2011 to 2013, Greg Puciato had many experiences with psychedelic drugs.

Greg Puciato was relieved to have finally identified it because, until then, he did not understand several of his personal traits such as hyperfocus and a deficiency in short-term memory when performing music-related activities, as well as a distortion in time perception.

Greg Puciato has dealt with anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia, depression and other mental health issues as well.

On his first shift, Greg Puciato drove twenty-two hours straight and received speeding tickets in three states worth hundreds of dollars.

On July 23,2010, Greg Puciato's death was faked by bandmates Ben Weinman and Liam Wilson, when they posted on their Twitter accounts that the singer had passed in his sleep.

Greg Puciato has expressed more affinity for the progressive-leaning ethics of punk and hardcore than those of heavy metal.

Greg Puciato has been critical of both organized religion and mainstream politics, and of the relationship between the two, and has been consistently supportive of LGBT rights, criticizing homophobia in heavy metal subculture, releasing a shirt in support of LGBT rights with the Dillinger Escape Plan, and debuting a video from the Black Queen on Out magazine website.

In 2018, Greg Puciato explained that he has a "really big gag reflex" for artists who are not genuine with their audiences or who compromise themselves to profit.

Greg Puciato returned to Instagram in 2021, opening a page with over 900 posts already on it, dating back to 2015.