Puscifer: Donkey Punch The Night (12"EP) [BMG]

Why you'll love it

Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer EP back on 12-inch vinyl. It carries their take on Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", a version of Accept's "Balls To The Wall", the originals "Breathe" and "Dear Brother", and remixes by Drumcell, Denton and Silent Servant.

This edition

• 12-inch EP at 33 1/3rpm
• Seven tracks across two sides
• Remixes by Drumcell, Denton and Silent Servant

About the album

Puscifer is the project Maynard James Keenan keeps for the ideas that don't fit Tool or A Perfect Circle, which turns out to be quite a lot of ideas. Donkey Punch The Night, from 2013, is one of the strangest and most fun things the band has done: a short EP that opens with a slinky, electronic "Bohemian Rhapsody" and later turns Accept's heavy-metal anthem "Balls To The Wall" into a pillow fight.

In between are two originals, the brooding "Breathe" and "Dear Brother", and on side B the remixers get to work: Drumcell reworks "Breathe", Denton takes on "Dear Brother" and Silent Servant drags "Balls To The Wall" into the techno club. It's an oddity in the best sense. Anyone who can make Freddie Mercury and Udo Dirkschneider share a record deserves some kind of diplomatic award.

Tracklist

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Out August 21, 2026 on BMG (cat# 538887121), a reissue of the 2013 EP.