In genetics, mutation is said to have neutral, positive and negative effects. Mutation is necessary for the evolutionary process of beings. A mutation is also said to be a permanent change, often radically altering what was, to create what will be. In music, artists often give life to songs, and once they are recorded, they vary little from that “final version” the artist and their audience grows accustomed to. For the project known as Puscifer, Maynard James Keenan (also of Tool and a perfect circle) prefers to release new music and then re-imagine the songs into other states, also sometimes yielding radical results. Ghost Cult caught up with one of the main conspirators of the band, Mat Mitchell, about the bands’ new album All Re-mixed Up (Puscifer Entertainment). All Remixed Up takes up the challenge of revisiting the entire Conditions Of My Parole album and creating something new and different. Continue reading →