Puscifer Release “ImpetuoUs” from Forthcoming Album, ‘Normal Isn’t’

Kicking off the new year, Puscifer release “ImpetuoUs,” a third and final preview of the band’s highly anticipated album, Normal Isn’t, arriving February 6th via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG.

Maynard James Keenan comments:

“I’m looking forward to hearing where this song takes people. As the writers, we forget that in a way, we are carpenters and that we’ve been with this song since it was a pile of lumber. Our Perspective may differ from the final occupant of this space we’ve constructed. Shelter, Bridge or Gallows, Coffin? Curious to find out.”

The accompanying visualizer offers a first look at the Puscifer comic book series, Tales From The Pusciverse. The debut issue spotlights the character Bellendia Black, originally introduced in the “Pendulum” video. Additional details about the series, launching in tandem with Normal Isn’t, will be announced soon.

Puscifer has previously released two tracks from the eleven song album: “Self Evident,” a song that Stereogum called “gnarly” while noting Keenan and Carina Round “operatically growl” on the four-minute outing, and “Pendulum,” a nod to the post-punk underground of the 1980s that Consequence said sounds like the “lovechild of Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy.”

Written and recorded across Arizona, Los Angeles, and on the road during last year’s “Sessanta” tour, the album blends the dark electronics and sharp humour Puscifer is known for with a more spontaneous creative process.

Album co-producer Mat Mitchell states:

“From the outset, we had discussed an element of rawness and edge, which guitar brings. We got rid of the guard rails and made the music more aggressive.”

Keenan adds:

“Normal Isn’t reflects this time we are living in. As storytellers and artists, our job is to observe, interpret, and report. We take in our environment and share what we see, and what we see around us does not appear normal. Not by a long shot.”

Album guests include Greg Edwards (bass), Gunnar Olsen (drums), and Sarah Jones (drums), with guests Tony Levin (bass on “Normal Isn’t” and “Seven One”), Danny Carey (drums on “Seven One”) and Mr. Ian Ross (father of Atticus Ross, who narrates “Seven One”).

Puscifer ‘Normal Isn’t’ album artwork, ft. Andrea Kowch painting

Normal Isn’t Track Listing:

1. Thrust
2. Normal Isn’t
3. Bad Wolf
4. Self Evident
5. A Public Stoning
6. The Quiet Parts
7. Mantastic
8. Pendulum
9. ImpetuoUs
10. Seven One
11. The Algorithm (Sessanta Live Mix)

Tour Dates:

March 20 – Las Vegas, NV The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
March 21 – Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre
March 24 – Austin, TX Bass Concert Hall
March 25 – Dallas, TX Music Hall at Fair Park
March 27 – Nashville, TN The Pinnacle
March 28 – Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
March 31 – Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
April 1 – Durham, NC DPAC – Durham Performing Arts Center
April 3 – Bethlehem, PA Wind Creek Event Center
April 4 – Boston, MA Boch Center – Wang Theatre
April 7 – New York, NY Terminal 5
April 8 – Hershey, PA Hershey Theatre
April 10 – Mashantucket, CT Premier Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
April 11 – Atlantic City, NJ Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort
April 15 – Niagara Falls, ON OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino
April 16 – Akron, OH Akron Civic Theatre
April 18 – Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
April 19 – Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
April 21 – Louisville, KY The Louisville Palace
April 23 – Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
April 25 – Chicago, IL The Chicago Theatre
April 26 – Milwaukee, WI Landmark Credit Union Live
April 28 – Madison, WI The Sylvee
April 30 – St. Louis, MO The Factory
May 1 – Kansas City, MO The Midland Theatre
May 3 – Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
May 5 – Salt Lake City, UT Maverik Center
May 8 – Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
May 9 – Seattle, WA WAMU Theater
May 11 – San Francisco, CA Golden Gate Theatre
May 13 – San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre
May 14 – Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theatre