Puscifer

The cross-dressing, the sexual fetishes, it all makes sense now -- this must be how Maynard James Keenan learned his A-B-Cs. Given this album's title, it's clear the Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman's heretical vision thrives even though he's shelved his bras and put the cerebral metal aside. With help from friends like Danny Lohner and Tim Alexander, Keenan's industrial brainchild likens more to Mike Patton's mercurial madness and NIN's machinist beats than to any of his other bands. But, Maynard-devoted, fear not -- there is still plenty of his wit and grit proudly spitting in the face of censorship.

If you took all the low-key loops from Tool's songs and strung them together, it might sound
something like this D-side project from frontman Maynard James Keenan. The lyrics &#8212
delivered in a borderline sexy-creepy style that sometimes veers into Gregorian-chant
territory &#8212 range from esoteric and dark to crude and dumb: "This lady got the
thickness/Can I get a witness?" But without the gravitas of Tool's massive prog ma... More >