{"id":328675,"date":"2025-12-03T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:46:18","slug":"maynard-james-keenan-shares-80-song-playlist-that-inspired-new-puscifer-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328675\/","title":{"rendered":"Maynard James Keenan Shares 80-Song Playlist That Inspired New Puscifer Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/maynard-james-keenan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Maynard James Keenan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/puscifer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Puscifer<\/a> have revealed playlists of what they listened to while making their forthcoming album <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/puscifer-new-album-2026-tour-single-self-evident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Normal Isn\u2019t<\/a>, which arrives February 6th.<\/p>\n<p>On the group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/puscifer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, each band member shared their personal playlist of the music they were consuming during the writing and recording process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:puscifer*normal-isnt-playlists-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fpuscifer-tickets%2Fcategory%2F389261\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Puscifer Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having previously described the new LP as \u201cgoth meets punk,\u201d Maynard\u2019s 80-song playlist is not surprisingly heavy on \u201980s goth and new wave acts: The Cure, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten, Killing Joke\u2026 you get the picture. One can easily trace a line from these songs to the sound of Puscifer\u2019s latest singles \u201cSelf Evident\u201d and \u201cPendulum,\u201d with the latter seeing Maynard <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/puscifer-goth-single-pendulum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">go full goth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>As for Mat Mitchell, the multi-instrumentalist and producer skewed more toward post-punk bands like Magazine, Public Image Ltd., and New Order, among others (his list was far shorter than Maynard\u2019s). Carina Round brought a more modern pop\/electronic influence to the table based on her listening habits, which included FKA twigs, Fever Ray, Aldous Harding, The Smile, and Bon Iver, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were quick to compile the playlists on Spotify, with a user-created playlist of Maynard\u2019s picks streamable below, where you can also see each member\u2019s full list of songs.<\/p>\n<p>Puscifer will be supporting Normal Isn\u2019t with a Spring 2026 North American tour that kicks off in March. <a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:puscifer*normal-isnt-playlists\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fpuscifer-tickets%2Fcategory%2F389261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Get tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maynard James Keenan and Puscifer have revealed playlists of what they listened to while making their forthcoming album&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-328675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}