Puscifer Have Announced A Livestream Show

How would you like Puscifer to launch their new album, Existential Reckoning? Yep, we had the same idea: a streamed live extravaganza from a sci-fi-looking setting in the middle of the Arizona desert. What else?

Good news, then: the band have announced that they’re doing exactly this to mark the album’s release on October 30. Given that previous live outings have included Luchador wrestlers and a tribute to U.S. TV show Hee-Haw, this is bound to be full of unexpected surprise concepts. But what they’ve revealed so far is that it’ll be happening in the retro-space-age surrounds of Arcosanti. "If you're not familiar with Arcosanti, I highly recommend that you look it up," says frontman Maynard James Keenan. Yeah, get on Google and have a gander, it’s perfect.

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"It's one of a long list of examples of architects, artists, actors, musicians, writers, and poets – people who are not necessarily from Arizona but came here and found that creative tick that burrows under your skin here, something that sets you in a motion to respond to this, what I consider to be equal parts inspirational and hostile, environment," Maynard continues of this piece of creative genius from his home state.

"It's not easy to survive here. There's already been a dust devil that's whipped through here, rattlesnakes, crazy red ants outside of my sleeping quarters which tried to consume my dog. We feel like we're on the edge of the world. Imagine if you were an extra-terrestrial traveller and you landed in the Southwest and wanted to assume an identity here and blend in, this would probably be a good spot to do that."

Yep. Check out the trailer below…

In the band’s recent Kerrang! Cover Story, Maynard revealed the meaning behind the album’s title, which appears in its opening track Bread And Circus as the line, ‘Here we are in the middle of our existential reckoning…’

“It came from watching things progress over the years,” he explained. “It’s us losing touch with things that I would consider as mattering. All this stuff happened before Coronavirus. Western culture has lost the plot. I think there’s a way out, but we’ve got to remember how to talk to each other, and how to survive without destroying too much.”

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