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Maynard James Keenan on Normal Isn’t, Puscifer’s Bigger Picture, and Ignoring the Voices
Maynard James Keenan digs into the fifth Puscifer album Normal Isn't, unpacking how the record functions as a kind of cultural status report—part political frustration, part tech anxiety, part dark humor. Keenan explains why the band feels like it’s finally being “discovered” years after the fact, how this album leans harder and hits sharper than its predecessors, and why observation—not preaching—is the real job here. The conversation also gets into the creation of the new character Bellendia Black, the expanding world of videos and graphic novels, the uneasy usefulness of AI, and why being…
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