VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE –
Feb 5, 2026 – Returning nearly six years after releasing the alarmist Existential Reckoning, Puscifer delivers an even more dire report on Normal Isn’t, a perfect set of tunes for anyone feeling unmoored by current events and searching for some new “Normal Is.”For roughly 15 years, Maynard James Keenan, Carina Round, and Mat Mitchell have developed as a creative team, deploying Puscifer on various search-and-satire missions. But at this point the laughter is more nervous, and the stakes seem higher than ever before when it comes to critiquing the repressive order of the day. So many values, including bedrock rights, are under attack, with real people getting hurt (in some cases killed) in the process.
Puscifer does not invoke anyone by name or riff on headlines, but it is impossible to miss the shadow of Trump II in this music, just as it was impossible not to sense the specter of Trump I hovering over Existential Reckoning.
