Back when Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez were in At The Drive-In, they seemed happy with freaking out on stage and screaming about one-armed scissors. But ever since they moved onto the red planet pastures of Mars Volta, they traded the emo-agitprop for a highly refined, rather geeky sound and vision that would send Coheed and Cambria running for their D&D guide books and Rush records. Come January ’08, Omar and Cedric will kick their dedication to the finer points of prog-rock nerd-dom into high gear.
In a blitzkrieg of marketing synergy with Amazon.com, the band is launching a video game to publicize their next release, The Bedlam in Goliath, out January 29. It's an intense concept album involving “real” events, including a Ouji board that became a “malevolent psycho-spiritual force." This teaser looks like a trailer for Saw 27—and FYI, while we may be giving these geeks a gentle ribbing, you know we’ll be wasting a few hours on this game when it drops on January 2.
Click here for more on the album “that did not want to be born.” Then check out this track from before the boys exposed their Magic-card collecting roots … and then watch Led Zeppelin channeling Mars Volta.
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A message for the author,
How can you write about a band that you obviously know nothing about? Geeky sound and vision? One armed scissor is a beautiful, metaphoric song. Listen to the lyrics, do you know what they are singing about? In Juarez, Mexico hundreds of young women have been brutally raped and murdered. The system is so corrupt there that women continue to be murdered and nothing is being done. The song has nothing to do with one armed scissors... Cedric and Omar are intelligent artists, they pay attention to issues that affect this world, they don't sing it to you straight forward, they make you think. They definitely don't pay attention to the bs that people like you write and neither should anyone else. Your article was not informative and for real fans of the band, a complete insult. Sorry, but it's true.