An Evening With Puscifer: "Normal Isn’t" & the Art of Creative Freedom

Under the stars at LA’s historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Allison Hagendorf sits down with Puscifer — Maynard James Keenan, Karina Round, and Matt Mitchell — for an intimate screening party and the first-ever listen of their new album, Normal Isn’t.

Fresh off hearing the record come to life for the very first time, the band opens up about what makes Puscifer different: no rules, no fixed lineup, total trust, and the freedom to follow ideas wherever they lead even when that means comedy and heaviness living side by side.

The conversation dives into:

⚡️ Experiencing Normal Isn’t for the first time with an audience

⚡️ Puscifer’s 20+ year evolution and ever-rotating creative family

⚡️ Why “anything goes” is the band’s true mission statement

⚡️ Balancing humor, intensity, and instinct

⚡️ Making records in hotel rooms, studios, and on the road

⚡️ The album’s sonic palette, guitars, synths, and aggression

⚡️ New characters, storylines, and the expanding Pusciverse via graphic novels

⚡️ What Normal Isn’t would taste like… if it were a wine 🍷

This is Puscifer unfiltered, playful, thoughtful, uncompromising, and deeply human.