The Mars Volta: New Album

SIXTH FULL LENGTH STUDIO ALBUM OUT MARCH 27 ON WARNER BROS.

The Mars Volta

Known for such landmark releases as the gold-certified De-Loused In The Comatorium, Frances The Mute and 2008’s The Bedlam In Goliath which featured Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy winner “Wax Simulacra,” The Mars Volta returns in epic and unexpected fashion with its sixth album: Noctourniquet, which will be released March 27 by Warner Bros.

While Noctourniquet was, in typical Mars Volta fashion, written by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala and produced by Rodriguez-Lopez, the 13-track album explores musical territories previously uncharted in the duo’s 20 or so years of creating music together.

The spectrum of musical and emotional textures conceived and created by Rodriguez-Lopez on Noctourniquet ranges from the opening bombast of “The Whip Hand” to the menacing crawl of “The Malkin Jewel” punctuated throughout by hypnotic melodies and borderline electro-ambient washes, most notably in the epic “In Absentia.”

As with previous Mars Volta efforts, Bixler-Zavala’s lyrics trace a narrative journey with a defined protagonist, this time inspired by disparate elements including ’80s UK alt-rockers The Godfathers, Superman comic nemesis Solomon Grundy and the Greek myth of Hyacinthus.

Noctourniquet was performed by The Mars Volta lineup of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Juan Alderete de la Pena, Marcel Rodriguez Lopez, and Deantoni Parks.

Tracklisting

1.) The Whip Hand

2.) Aegis

3.) Dyslexicon

4.) Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound

5.) The Malkin Jewel

6.) Lapochka

7.) In Absentia

8.) Imago

9.) Molochwalker

10.) Trinkets Pale of Moon

11.) Vedamalady

12.) Noctourniquet

13.) Zed and Two Naughts

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