THE MARS VOLTA: OCTAHEDRON
Out June 23 on Warner Bros. Records (NORTH AMERICA) and June 22nd on Mercury Records (REST OF WORLD)

The Mars Volta's fifth studio album, Octahedron, will be released June 23 by Warner Bros. Records in North America and on June 22nd on Mercury Records in the rest of the world.

The first single in North America will be "Since We've Been Wrong" while overseas it will be Cotopaxi.

Anyone else curious? I thought Bedlam was a step in the first direction after the rather average Amputechture. While De-Loused is still probably their proudest work to date, I still listen to Frances the Mute from time to time. Wonder if Flea and John Frusciante are featured in any way this time around..

Anyways, I'm aware that TMV is not very much in vogue these days (although just about everyone had their cocks hard for them back in 2004 or so). I saw them live during the Frances the mute era and they left quite an impression. Ever since then I've tried to keep up to date with the new stuff. While Thomas Pridgen is good, I still gravitate towards the Jon Theodore era stuff.

Feel free to add the mandatory "Relationship in Command > Every TMV album" posts.

Here's the new single, Cotopaxi:

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Thoughts?

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Mandatory ATD-I > TMV post.

hey that el grupo nuevo album is okay.

frusciante plays on every track except one iirc

Anyone else curious? I thought Bedlam was a step in the first direction after the rather average Amputechture.


The Bedlam In Goliath is one of the most horrendous albums i have ever heard in my life. How this material got from band to producer to manager to label to PR guy without at least ONE of them stopping and saying "hang on a sec... this record is a self-indulgent overstuffed turd of a vomitous excuse for actual music that if played backwards through history would have caused Jimmy Page, The Beatles, Elvis and Miles Davis to all kill themselves for fear their work would somehow cause this sound to come into existence" is completely beyond me.

mandatory atdi sucks balls post

ATDI does totally suck ass to me. This new single is way too similar to previous stuff, ehh.

i'm always drawn to omar's work...you can always find an instrumental on his solo albums that ends up a TMV song.

thought this was their "acoustic" album?

cotopaxi like a bedlam era viscera eyes...

cotopaxi like a bedlam era viscera eyes...

is this the lyrics?

i'm sure i'm gearing up for at least another 60 minutes of pretentious lyrics that make absolutely no sense

those of you who say at the drive in sucks can eat a fat dick

mars volta sucks ass though

new album is amazing.
really enjoying it so far.
it settled down nicely after the 5 or 6th listen.

do they still take massive amounts of drugs? if not, i'm not interested.

band hasn't been good since they fired jon theodore

relationship of command > Every TMV album

yeah but roulette dares, cicatriz, take the veil, and cassandra gemini > every atdi song

maybe i don't like the emo vocals. i like the nasty gritty ATDI vocals.