

And on October 25, 2007, the entire album was put up for listening. On October 7, 2007, "Trekka (Sean Beaven Mix)" was published on. The album debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200, selling about 27,000 copies in its first week. The video features several fully CGI Maynards as pawns in a chess game between two women. On October 1, 2007, the video was posted on the Puscifer YouTube channel. On October 30, 2007, a second single, and first actual radio single from the album, " Queen B." was posted into a flash audio player on the official website, along with selected tracks by Keenan projects. Released a week later was an iTunes-only four track EP titled Don't Shoot the Messenger, with tracks previously released only on soundtracks.

The album was preceded by a non-album, retail-only single called " Cuntry Boner", released on October 2, 2007. "V" is for Vagina has sold 112,000 copies. Keenan himself compared the sound of "V" Is for Vagina to "driving around in your car listening to those old Motown hits, James Brown, and cool R&B stuff". The album features a significantly different, electronic sound and arrangements than Keenan's other bands: the progressive Tool and alternative A Perfect Circle. On their 2020 debut for Alchemy Recordings/Puscifer Entertainment/BMG entitled ‘Existential Reckoning,’ Puscifer track Billy D back to the desert and, just maybe, uncover the truth about aliens once and for all."V" Is for Vagina is the debut studio album by Maynard James Keenan's side project Puscifer, released on October 30, 2007. They’ve brought their unique live experience to life everywhere from Coachella to Bonnaroo. Show where Keenan first used the name “Puscifer.” In addition to tallying tens of millions of streams and views, they’ve piqued the curiosity of the press. Entertainment Weekly christened them, “Exceptionally groovy,” and Revolver fittingly described them as “indescribable.” Renowned for an immersive live show, the group’s performances blur the lines between concert and theater, traversing the dusty American Southwest with Billy D and Hildy or the sweaty squared circle with Luchadores. Meanwhile, the moniker’s origins can be traced to a 1995 episode of the HBO classic Mr. Beyond the core trio of Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, and Carina Round, the group’s ever-evolving ecosystem encompasses Greg Edwards, Gunnar Olsen, Juliette Commagere as well as a cast of characters such as Billy D and his wife Hildy Berger, Major Douche, Special Agent Dick Merkin, and many more.
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The group’s catalog consists of four full-length studio albums: V is for …, Conditions of My Parole , Money $hot , and Existential Reckoning - in addition to a series of EPs and remixes.

and Hildy Berger.Ī video for “Horizons,” taken from “Parole Violator,” can be seen here.īorn somewhere in the Arizona desert, Puscifer is an electro-rock band, multimedia experience, traveling circus, and alien abduction survivors. The film also features recurring Pusciverse characters Billy D. With “Parole Violator,” the outfit led by Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell and Carina Round offer a live, track-by-track re-imagination of their critically-acclaimed 2011 album, Conditions of My Parole. Agent Dick Merkin, Major Douche, the briefcase and a few surprise cameos are interspersed amongst the studio footage. With “V is for Versatile,” the band takes viewers into the famed studios of Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound as they re-interpret and re-record songs from their V is for… era. The films, and their companion soundtracks, which are also now available via all formats through and indie retailers, focus on two chapters in Puscifer’s discography.
