Maynard James Keenan claims Puscifer to be the space in his mind where his id, ego, and anima go to exchange cookie recipes. This special baked dessert may be an acquired taste, but it digests quite nicely.

For those who don’t know, Puscifer is Maynard’s solo project that encompasses art, clothing, music, video, and other odds and ends that adhere to his subconscious. “An island of misfit ideas,” is how he references this place in his mind. Busy pushing innovation, in the past month Maynard has opened the Puscifer store, released a remix album, released a video, signed a bunch of bottles of wine, and sees a positive glow for the future of our country.

Puscifer is nothing like Tool and it isn’t A Perfect Circle, it’s an electronic cluster of comforting ambience, dark lethargic grooves, and lyrics that are at times hard to swallow- they are truth. Puscifer has only produced one album, “V” is for Vagina (pictured). The others that have followed, “V” is for Viagra, and as recent as a few weeks ago, “D” is for Dubby, are remixes of the original nine songs. Welsh musician, Lustmord, stepped in and has done a great job contributing his spin for “D” is for Dubby, complimenting the release of the “Momma Sed” video. The video is very much an oil-painted peyote trip through growing pains in search of inner strength. The various creative (kinda strange) minds that wade in Maynard’s playground contribute musically and artfully. For an abridged version of collaborators: Jonny Polonsky, Tim Alexander, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk, Joey Jordison, Ainjel Emme, Josh Eustis of Black Light Burns & Telefon Tel Aviv, Gil Sharone, Trey Gunn, Renholdër (Danny Lohner), Milla Jovovich, Lisa Germano. Their work can be found online as well as at the new Puscifer store located in the mining/ ghost town, Jerome, Arizona.
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