Big news for Puscifer! A track-by-track reimagining of Existential Reckoning will feature mixes by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Tool’s Justin Chancellor, Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen, and Phantogram! This will be a continuation of Puscifer’s series of album-by-album remix collections, which Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired, is scheduled to arrive on March 31st via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG. To celebrate the reveal, a video for “A Singularity (Reimagined by Carina Round),” shot and edited by Maynard James Keenan, is now available.
Maynard comments:
“On Oct. 7, 2021, I lost my Muse. Deadly Little MiHo lost her 2 year battle with pancreatitis and kidney disease. We thought we lost her in late 2019, so I panicked and wrote her this song. We were certain she was done for. But we were blessed with a second chance and a bit more time. I rarely share things like this. Too painful. But this one can’t be kept bottled up. As I have mentioned before, she has been hiding in most of my vocal tracks since 2005. She was either in or near the vocal booth every time I tracked. Her sigh, her bark, sniffle, sneeze. Her jingling collar. Her squeaky toys. Usually poorly timed. Performance Credits- @PUSCIFER – V is for V*****, Don’t Shoot the Messenger EP, V is for V***** remixes, C is for…EP, Conditions of My Parole, All Re-Mixed Up, Donkey Punch the Night EP, Money $hot, Money $hot Your Re-Load, Existential Reckoning, Existential Reckoning Re-Wired. @APERFECTCIRCLE – “By & Down” single, Eat the Elephant. @TOOLMUSIC – 10,000 Days, Fear Inoculum.”
Round adds:
“Maynard’s vocal for this song is synonymously a sorrowful hymn and a siren of celebration. I wanted the main vocal and the bass and drums to be anchors in a sea of jubilant chaos. A kind of controlled cacophony of celebratory joy. Familiar, but a bit unnerving. The horns and saxes at the end are all moving together but somehow so loose, dispersing off into foam and then coming back together into one harmonious wave and then breaking off again, cascading. I feel excited when it’s over and like I want to get back on the ride. Birds, a charm of finches bookend the song. You can feel their energy. And within, there’s Maynard’s lone whistle, mimicking them. The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force. The synergy of composure and chaos in a dance reverence.”
Additionally, the band has announced their first European tour in seven years, as well as a U.S trek. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 20th, at 10:00AM local time.
Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:
Track List;
01) Bread and Circus (Re-imagined by Mat Mitchell)
02) Apocalyptical (Re-imagined by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
03) The Underwhelming (Re-imagined by Juliette Commagere)
04) Grey Area (Re-imagined by Troy Van Leeuwen & Tony Hajjar)
05) Theorem (Re-imagined by Sarah Jones & Jordan Fish)
06) UPGrade (Re-imagined by Justin Chancellor & Scott Kirkland)
07) Bullet Train To Iowa (Re-imagined by Alessandro Cortini)
08) Personal Prometheus (Re-imagined by Greg Edwards)
09) A Singularity (Re-imagined by Carina Round)
10) Postulous (Re-imagined by Phantogram)
- Fake Affront (Re-imagined by Gunnar Olsen)
- Bedlamite (Re-imagined by Daniel P. Carter)
Tour Dates:
05/18 Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
05/23 Asheville, NC @ Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
05/27 Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple Festival
05/28 Northfield, OH @ MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage
05/ 30 Rochester, NY @ Kodak Center Main Theater
06/01 Baltimore, MD @ The Lyric Baltimore
06/02 Atlantic City, NJ @ Hard Rock Casino
06/03 Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek Event Center
06/10 Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre
06/12 Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
06/13 Manchester UK @ Manchester Academy
06/15 London, UK @ TBA
06/17 Clisson, France @ Hellfest
06/20 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
06/21 Stockholm, Sweden @ Fryshuset
06/26 Hamburg, Germany @ Docks
06/27 Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys
06/28 Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys
06/30 Belfort, France @ Eurockeennes Festival
07/01 Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013 Poppodium Tilburg
07/02 Werchter, Belgium @ Rock Werchter
07/04 Barcelona, Spain @ Club Razzmatazz
07/06 Lisbon, Portugal @ Nos Alive Festival
07/ 07 Madrid, Spain @ Mad Cool Festival
