It’s been a long time coming. For years, I’ve been waiting for one of our heavy hitters—one of the artists who actually has something to say—to step up and throw a punch. Not another safe interview. Not another watered-down single wrapped in metaphor and marketing polish. I’m talking about a straight-up foot-to-ass moment, the kind that reminds people that art still has power. And finally, someone did it. Puscifer just dropped the hammer. Their new single “Self Evident” is the first blast from the upcoming album Normal Isn’t, due out in February 2026, and it’s exactly what this moment needs. This isn’t just another Maynard James Keenan project—it’s a full-on statement. “Self Evident” doesn’t whisper or hint; it spits. It rips through the fog of fake civility, corporate propaganda, and social numbness with a message that feels like it’s been brewing for years: wake the hell up. The track is rhythm and rebellion fused into one relentless pulse—industrial, confrontational, and deliberate. You can feel the weight of frustration baked into every sound, like a release valve finally cracking open. We’ve been marinating in outrage and distraction for so long that it’s easy to forget what honest expression sounds like. Normal Isn’t feels like the antidote—a reminder that music can still punch through the noise and force you to look directly at what you’ve been avoiding. Every generation has its spark of defiance. Dylan had protest songs. Rage Against the Machine had political fury. NIN turned industrial pain into poetry. Tool turned existential chaos into meditation. Puscifer is carrying that torch into the now, and they’re doing it without apology. This record isn’t about comfort; it’s about confrontation. It’s about stripping away the illusion that any of this—what we see, what we tolerate, what we normalize—is actually okay. “Self Evident” isn’t just a single; it’s a declaration that art still matters and that silence is complicity. Maynard’s always been the guy who observes from the edge, poking fun at humanity while exposing the cracks underneath, but this time there’s no smirk, no wink. This time he sounds pissed, and rightfully so. When he says Normal Isn’t, it’s not a tagline—it’s an accusation. This album is shaping up to be a reckoning. It’s sharp, self-aware, and completely uninterested in being liked. It’s the sound of an artist done pretending that everything’s fine. And that’s exactly what we need right now. I’ll be embedding the video for “Self Evident” at the bottom of this post. Watch it. Don’t scroll by. Sit with it. Let it challenge you. This is what happens when art remembers its purpose—to disrupt, to provoke, to drag truth kicking and screaming into the light. Because normal isn’t, and it never was.

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