The Mars Volta

[LiquidGUI]

This is a band that has only been around for a year or two and they are grouped from peices of two other bands one of which is at the drive in. The music rules.. their new album "De-Loused In The Comatorium" was released and June and it is one of the most unique sounding rock bands in a while. Their genre "ProgRock" or Progressive Rock is awesome. I almost could describe it as Radiohead spliced with The Smashing Pumpkins with something extra added and created by them. I suggest that you either buy the album De-Loused In The Comatorium or you at least get the song "The Mars Volta - Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt" from iTunes. Please try it. Its great :)

[zerock]

yeah they rock:D

[NiTRO]

I love this album!

[wolfpacker]

Thanks for the recommendation. I got it last night and am listening to it
now. WOW! This is probably the best new thing I've tried since Evanescence.

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they are good, but i liked at the drive-in much better. so if you like the mars volta, check out at the drive-in as well as sparta (the band the other 3 members of atdi formed when they split).

[Bakerman]

Me thinks you are having some fun with us. There is a "mars volta" listed on the iTunes music store, but no music. What gives?

[NiTRO]

Nope. Definitely not taking you on a ride on this one. Check out all the user reviews and audio clips on Amazon.com: The Mars Volta (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009V7T2/qid=1060497456/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-6908610-6107833?v=glance&s=music&n=507846)

The audio clips don't quite do them justice sounds much better on your iPod. Definitely one of the best albums of the summer!

[zerock]

yeah bought their album when it came out, great stuff.

[Timmy Yak]

I love the mars volta. I don't know if anyone remembers, but back a couple years ago there was a band called At the Drive In. They were to be the next Nirvana everyone was saying. Well they broke up and some of the guys from that band, especially the lead singer, formed The Mars Volta. Just a little tid bit for ya. :)

[Narvitron]

Some find them hard to describe. I think they are easy as hell to describe: They are Rush, if Rush started in the 90s.

I like 'em both.

[waylman]

I'm going to have to disagree here. I do like track 2 on this album but that is all. After that, it is all downhill. For the rest of the album, they come ripping out of the gate with a decent riff, stop and go into some uninspired art rock prog jam, then back to the riff with some added effects. Rinse. Repeat. It just sounds to me like these guys are trying too hard to be different. The bass is mixed really low as well which ####es me off to no end. Anyway, to each his own I guess...

[reorx24]

ditto here. found them way too repetitive. maybe ill give it a few more listens....

[TuneSlammer]

Want to love their new album!!!
But I just don't...something to know? listen for? ingest?
I try and some say then ya just don't like it...I have been here before and found whole worlds of music by hanging in...fell this is one of those cases

[mtkversion]

Eriatarka is the only track that really stands out to me ... guess I have to listen to it some more ...

[Impulse29]

Yup, I know them... I saw them in concert when they were with the chillie peppers... Their music is excellent, but they are crazy! Using the mic cable as a noose, and going nuts on stage...

Also, a short time after, someone in their band died of a drug overdose (from what I heard)...

Some bands I would also recommend in this category are: Thursday (favourite band), At the drive in, The Ataris, skinfish,

[Bob]

Originally posted by LiquidGUI
Their genre "ProgRock" or Progressive Rock is awesome.

"Are they gone
Stung the slang of a gallows bird
Sanctioned a dead letter pure
trackmarked amoeba lands craft
cartwheel of scratches
dress the tape worm as pets
tentacles smirk please
flinch the cacooned meat
infra-recon forgets
evaporated the fur
because it covers them"

Almost as outre as the lyrics of Jon Anderson (Yes)

I picked this album up today and some good tracks on it - have to agree with waylman on the bass, it is mixed way down there. At least with it being their only album I'm not going to break the bank getting their back catalogue!
But it is a concept album - "De-Loused In The Comatorium is an iridescent, fearless, brain-busting hour of music, a fictionalized celebration of Julio Venegas? life. Based on a story written by Cedric, it is a concept album in which the hero tries to commit suicide by overdosing on morphine. Instead of dying, he falls into a coma for a week, and experiences fantastic adventures in his dreams, elemental battles between the good and bad aspects of his conscience. At the end, he emerges from the coma, but chooses to die. " - and so it is going to sound repetitive in places, as some members have stated.

Another recent ProgRock/Experimental Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental, Experimental, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Space Rock, whatever you wish to label it,
band I can recommend is Porcupine Tree (http://www.porcupinetree.com/) and a good Prog Rock site can be found here (http://www.gepr.net/geprfram.htm)...

Ah, good old Prog Rock - :cool:

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since this thread was bumped...i'll add that they just released a limited edition live ep. available only at indie record stores.