PUSCIFER - Title, Release Date Set For New Album From TOOL Frontman's Side-Project
August 1, 2007, 16 years ago
TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan has issued the following update in regards to his new recording project, PUSCIFER:
"It's official. The voices in my head have deliberated long enough. The verdict is October 30th. The title? V Is For Vagina. Of course. What else would it be? C Is For Chinese Democracy was taken."Speaking recently with Rolling Stone magazine's David Fricke Maynard James Keenan explained that Puscifer “is my attempt to make music to inspire people. Heavy rock is sinking, the industry is dying. This is definitely not thinking man’s music” - elliptically referring to Tool’s dense, serpentine metal - “but groove-oriented music that makes you feel good.”
The music Keenan previews at Electric Lady is suitably provocative, with a good-time roll. 'Queen B' features a bee’s nest of overlapping, processed vocals - including Keenan’s own deep country baritone - over noir-ish hip-hop drumming, like Keenan’s previous side outing, A PERFECT CIRCLE, in Tennessee-midnight-radio dub. 'Dojo' is marching percussion and sinister electronics with what sounds like the death gulp of a Duane Eddy-treble guitar. 'World Up My Ass' is Keenan’s version of the 1980 CIRCLE JERKS song - total psychic collapse as straight-up backwoods fun. 'Country Boner' is delightfully offensive and something of an antique - a cover of a song by the Illinois garage band ELECTRIC SHEEP, which featured pre-Tool guitarist Adam Jones and his high school buddy, Tom Morello, later in RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.
Read the full article at Rolling Stone.
More on Puscifer here.
