PUSCIFER continues its series of album-by-album remix collections with the release of “Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired” on March 31 via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG
A video for “A Singularity (Re-Imagined By Carina Round)“, shot and edited by Maynard James Keenan, was released this morning. The clip echoes the song’s sentiment, with the heart-wrenching track offered as a memoriam to Keenan’s beloved and well-known dog MiHo. He writes in a statement: “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.”
Carina Round explains her approach to re-working the song: “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.”
PUSCIFER has simultaneously announced its first European tour in seven years, with performances slated for Hellfest, Nos Alive and Mad Cool festivals, as well as a round of headlining performances. A brief U.S. trek precedes the European outing. Tickets for all headlining shows (Europe and U.S.) are on sale Friday, January 20 at 10 a.m. local time. NIGHT CLUB opens on all headlining dates. Ticketing links can be found via Puscifer.com.
“Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired” offers a track-for-track re-imagining of the 12 songs from “Existential Reckoning“. PUSCIFER band members Mat Mitchell and Round, along with current touring musicians Greg Edwards (FAILURE, AUTOLUX) and Gunnar Olsen reinterpret tracks from the prophetic, electro-laced record. The Academy Award-winning team of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross tackle “Apocalyptical” (Reznor has a co-writing credit with Maynard James Keenan and Mitchell on PUSCIFER‘s 2009 song “Potions“),Phantogram revamp “Postulous“, drummer Sarah Jones and BRING ME THE HORIZON‘s Jordan Fish tackle “Theorem“, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (and sometimes A PERFECT CIRCLE/FAILURE) guitar player Troy Van Leeuwen partners with his GONE IS GONE bandmate Tony Hajjar for “Grey Area“, while TOOL‘s Justin Chancellor and THE CRYSTAL METHOD’s Scott Kirkland join forces for “UPGrade“. Additional contributors include Juliette Commagere, who first appeared on PUSCIFER‘s 2011 album “Conditions Of My Parole“, keyboard player Alessandro Cortini (NINE INCH NAILS),and BBC 1‘s Daniel P. Carter.
“Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired” track listing:
- Bread And Circus (Re-imagined by Mat Mitchell)
- Apocalyptical (Re-imagined by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
- The Underwhelming (Re-imagined by Juliette Commagere)
- Grey Area (Re-imagined by Troy Van Leeuwen & Tony Hajjar)
- Theorem (Re-imagined by Sarah Jones & Jordan Fish)
- UPGrade (Re-imagined by Justin Chancellor & Scott Kirkland)
- Bullet Train To Iowa (Re-imagined by Alessandro Cortini)
- Personal Prometheus (Re-imagined by Greg Edwards)
- A Singularity (Re-imagined by Carina Round)
- Postulous (Re-imagined by Phantogram)
- Fake Affront (Re-imagined by Gunnar Olsen)
- Bedlamite (Re-imagined by Daniel P. Carter)
PUSCIFER U.S. tour dates:
May 18 – Daytona Beach, FL Welcome to Rockville
May 23 – Asheville, NC Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
May 27 – Columbus, OH Sonic Temple Festival
May 28 – Northfield, OH MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage
May 30 – Rochester, NY Kodak Center Main Theater
June 01 – Baltimore, MD The Lyric Baltimore
June 02 – Atlantic City, NJ Hard Rock Casino
June 03 – Bethlehem, PA Wind Creek Event Center
European tour dates:
June 10 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre
June 12 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
June 13 – Manchester UK @ Manchester Academy
June 15 – London, UK @ [to be announced]
June 17 – Clisson, France @ Hellfest
June 20 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
June 21 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Fryshuset
June 26 – Hamburg, Germany @ Docks
June 27 – Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys
June 28 – Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys
June 30 – Belfort, France @ Eurockeennes Festival
July 01 – Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013 Poppodium Tilburg
July 02 – Werchter, Belgium @ Rock Werchter
July 04 – Barcelona, Spain @ Club Razzmatazz
July 06 – Lisbon, Portugal @ Nos Alive Festival
July 07 – Madrid, Spain @ Mad Cool Festival