#2 Seller of 2005! The Mars Volta is neither a concept album band nor a prog band. Sure, they excel at both, but Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala formed the Mars Volta to dispose of labels and limitations of any kind, to move beyond. The Mars Volta's Frances The Mute is NOT a "sequel" to 2003's De-Loused In The Comatorium. Yes it builds a story around the memory of a dear departed friend--but the similarities end there. Where De-Loused... was a finite sci-fi narrative that took place entirely ...   [ read more ]

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The Mars Volta returns with a fresh dose of epic rock n' roll on its third studio album, Amputechture. The eight-track set is due September 12th via Universal and opens with the seven-minute "Vicarious Atonement," the closest the group has ever come to a ballad. The album then moves back to familiar expansive musical territory on the nearly 17-minute "Tetragrammaton," and also features two other tracks that clock in past the 11-minute mark, "Meccamputechture" and "Day of the Baphomets." The disc itself run...   [ read more ]

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The sprawling arrangements on Thavius Beck's Mush debut, 'Decomposition,' burrow into the listener's brain with a mix of melodic samples, chopped breaks, pulsating synths, and head-swirling delay, then morph into genre-bending sound paintings adorned with hallucinogenic vocal samples. Four full vocal tracks, 'Open Your F*@!ing Eyes' (featuring vocals by Thavius Beck himself), 'June Gloom' (vocals by Subtitle), 'Amongst the Shadows' (vocals by Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Mars Volta), and 'Demons of Destruction'...   [ read more ]

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