The Mars Volta's fifth studio album, Octahedron, will be released June 22nd on Mercury Records.The band have confirmed some special London shows around the release of the album. The first of which is a at the ICA in London on June 18th followed by a special outdoor show at Somerset House on July 13th.
Octahedron follows up last year's The Bedlam In Goliath, which featured "Wax Simulacra," the track that took Best Hard Rock Performance honours at the recent 51st Annual Grammy Awards.
Octahedron was written by The Mars Volta--Omar Rodriguez Lopez (music, arrangements, direction) and Cedric Bixler Zavala (vocals, lyrics)--and performed by The Mars Volta group: Marcel Rodriguez Lopez, Thomas Pridgen, John Frusciante, Isaiah Ikey Owens, Juan Alderete de la Pena, Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez Lopez.
Hailed by The New Yorker as "perhaps the most musically adventurous act currently signed to a major label," The Mars Volta formed in 2001. The band's recorded output includes the 2003 debut full length De-Loused In The Comatorium, as well as Frances The Mute (2005), Amputechture (2006) and the previously mentioned The Bedlam In Goliath (2008).
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3 comments:
Is that the official artwork?
yeah it's original artwork.
you can tell it's the cover because it corresponds to the image on The Mars Volta's store at hellomerch (same trees, same sky...)
And theres an octahedron just there... and jeff jordans signature
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