PUSCIFER

Existential Reckoning

ALCHEMY RECORDINGS

Maynard James Keenan finds serenity beyond the silliness

IF YOUR DEBUT ALBUM’S called “V” Is For Vagina, you can’t expect folk to take you too seriously. And to his credit, Maynard James Keenan – he of Tool, A Perfect Circle and… wine – has never demanded respect nor understanding of Puscifer. The project began as a purge playground, betwixt his main band’s 13-year dry spell; as the years dragged on, though, Puscifer got better. More song-orientated. More, for want of a better word and a sick bucket, mature.