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“So we got there, I was, like, four days in the hotel, ’cause we have four days off before the shows. So I was just drinking water, hot showers, taking care of myself, hot tea, just trying to get through it and it sucked. But you didn’t know yet… how bad this thing could have been. If I’d have known how bad it could have been, I would have been freaking out.”
Maynard adds that the cough that first began in New Zealand is still affecting him to this day, explaining that he'll have 10 minute coughing fits every other day at the moment.
“I’m still feeling residual effects of [coronavirus],” he says. “I feel like there’s a bunch of people that… maybe I didn’t almost die, but I have friends who almost died. It was ugly. And then you have people going… apparently I’m being paid to say this. Eat a dick, dude.”
Puscifer will be releasing their fifth album Existential Reckoning on October 30. Watch the full Maynard interview below: