Puscifer Announce 2023 Tour Dates, ‘Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired’ Release

The re-imagined LP features several special guests

Puscifer are keeping the Existential Reckoning rolling in 2023. The group has announced a string of headlining shows and festival appearances across the US, Europe, and the UK. Tickets will be available HERE.

Additionally, Puscifer has announced the release of Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired, a re-imagining of their latest hit album. The cover art was done by Daniel Martin Diaz, and the record features special appearances by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails), Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age), Phantogram, and more. Check out the cover art and full track listing below now.

A video for “A Singularity (Re-Imagined by Carina Round),” shot and edited by Maynard James Keenan, can be streamed now below. The clip echoes the song’s sentiment, with the heart-wrenching track offered as a memoriam to Keenan’s beloved, and well-known dog, MiHo. He says: “On Oct. 7, 2021, I lost my Muse. Deadly Little MiHo lost her 2 year battle with pancreatitis and kidney disease. We thought we lost her in late 2019, so I panicked and wrote her this song. We were certain she was done for. But we were blessed with a second chance and a bit more time. I rarely share things like this. Too painful. But this one can’t be kept bottled up. As I have mentioned before, she has been hiding in most of my vocal tracks since 2005. She was either in or near the vocal booth every time I tracked. Her sigh, her bark, sniffle, sneeze. Her jingling collar. Her squeaky toys. Usually poorly timed.”

Round explains her approach to re-working the song: “Maynard’s vocal for this song is synonymously a sorrowful hymn and a siren of celebration. I wanted the main vocal and the bass and drums to be anchors in a sea of jubilant chaos. A kind of controlled cacophony of celebratory joy. Familiar, but a bit unnerving. The horns and saxes at the end are all moving together but somehow so loose, dispersing off into foam and then coming back together into one harmonious wave and then breaking off again, cascading. I feel excited when it’s over and like I want to get back on the ride. Birds, a charm of finches bookend the song. You can feel their energy. And within, there’s Maynard’s lone whistle, mimicking them. The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force. The synergy of composure and chaos in a dance reverence.”

Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired offers a track-for-track re-imagining of the 12 songs from Existential Reckoning. Puscifer band members Mitchell and Round, along with current touring musicians Greg Edwards (Failure, Autolux) and Gunnar Olsen reinterpret tracks from the prophetic, electro-laced record. The Academy Award-winning team of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross tackle “Apocalyptical” (Reznor has a co-writing credit with Maynard James Keenan and Mitchell on Puscifer’s 2009 song, “Potions”), Phantogram revamp “Postulous,” Drummer Sarah Jones and Bring Me The Horizon’s Jordan Fish tackle “”Theorem,” Queens of The Stone Age (and sometimes A Perfect Circle/Failure) guitar player Troy Van Leeuwen partners with his Gone is Gone bandmate, Tony Hajjar for “Grey Area,” while Tool’s Justin Chancellor and The Crystal Method’s Scott Kirkland join forces for “UPGrade.” Additional contributors include Juliette Commagere, who first appeared on Puscifer’s 2011 album Conditions of My Parole, keyboard player Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails), and BBC 1’s Daniel P. Carter.

Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired [Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG, 2023]

1. Bread and Circus (Re-imagined by Mat Mitchell)
2. Apocalyptical (Re-imagined by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
3. The Underwhelming (Re-imagined by Juliette Commagere)
4. Grey Area (Re-imagined by Troy Van Leeuwen & Tony Hajjar)
5. Theorem (Re-imagined by Sarah Jones & Jordan Fish)
6. UPGrade (Re-imagined by Justin Chancellor & Scott Kirkland)
7. Bullet Train To Iowa (Re-imagined by Alessandro Cortini)
8. Personal Prometheus (Re-imagined by Greg Edwards)
9. A Singularity (Re-imagined by Carina Round)
10. Postulous (Re-imagined by Phantogram)
11. Fake Affront (Re-imagined by Gunnar Olsen)
12. Bedlamite (Re-imagined by Daniel P. Carter)

Puscifer: 2023 World Tour Dates

May 18 Daytona Beach, FL Welcome to Rockville
May 23 Asheville, NC Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
May 27 Columbus, OH Sonic Temple Festival
May 28 Northfield, OH MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage
May 30 Rochester, NY Kodak Center Main Theater
June 1 Baltimore, MD The Lyric Baltimore
June 2 Atlantic City, NJ Hard Rock Casino
June 3 Bethlehem, PA Wind Creek Event Center
June 10 Dublin, Ireland 3Olympia Theatre
June 12 Glasgow, UK O2 Academy Glasgow
June 13 Manchester UK Manchester Academy
June 15 London, UK TBA
June 17 Clisson, France Hellfest
June 20 Copenhagen, Denmark Vega
June 21 Stockholm, Sweden Fryshuset
June 26 Hamburg, Germany Docks
June 27 Berlin, Germany Huxleys
June 28 Berlin, Germany Huxleys
June 30 Belfort, France Eurockeennes Festival
July 1 Tilburg, Netherlands 013 Poppodium Tilburg
July 2 Werchter, Belgium Rock Werchter
July 4 Barcelona, Spain Club Razzmatazz
July 6 Lisbon, Portugal Nos Alive Festival
July 7 Madrid, Spain Mad Cool Festival