GO LIVE: PUSCIFER BRINGS OUT THE WEIRD IN MADISON WI!

November 14, 2022

Puscifer brought their ‘Existential Reckoning Tour 2.0 – Let the Probing Continue’ tour to The Sylvee here in Madison WI and lets just say things were about to get weird…In a good way!

Kicking things off was Night Club. A duo consisting of Mark Brooks and vocalist Emily Kavanaugh. The band calls their music, ‘dark electronic pop’ and did a great job filling the support role for the night. Night Club played a brief six song set which featured the 2018 single, “Candy Coated Suicide” and wrapped up with “California Killed Me” from their 2020 release, Die Die Lullaby.

Night Club Setlist:
Die in the Disco
Schizophrenic
Candy Coated Suicide
Scary World
Dear Enemy
California Killed Me

Puscifer took to the stage right around 9 PM and fans went crazy as the lights went out before the intro video began to play. Puscifer has a strict no cell phone policy during the show (then again, all bands that Maynard James Keenan is in has the same policy) so it was only fitting for the band to make that perfectly clear with a quick video before taking the stage, which was also kind of funny. It was Agent Dick Merkin warning the audience against using their cell phones during the show threatening them with anal probing as one of the consequences. At the very end of the intro video the secret ingredient of spam was shown, it was pretty much calling out the fans who chose to use their cell phones to take pictures or videos during the show. Quite funny if you ask me.

As the intro video came to an end immediately the show began and Puscifer took the stage opening with “Bread and Circus” which is the opening track off of the latest release, Existential Reckoning.

The show was broken down into three segments with the first segment consisting entirely of material from Existential Reckoning.

During the course of the night aliens routinely appeared on stage to dance or chase members of the band around on the stage. The closing segment was a five song set that included “Conditions of My Parole,” and wrapped up with “Bedlamite.”