The Mars Volta To Release New Album In March

The Mars Volta have confirmed that they will release their sixth studio LP this year.

The band, who had previously hinted that they would put out a new album in 2012, will release "Noctourniquet" on March 26.

Previously, The Mars Volta's guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López had said that the follow-up to 2009's "Octahedron" would mark the end of an era in the band's songwriting, stating: "I want to collaborate more. I've had 10 years of kind of being a benign dictator in this band and I want to make it more like a democracy."

Last week, Rodríguez-López and The Mars Volta singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala confirmed that they had reformed their former band At The Drive-In. The group split in 2001 at the height of their popularity after the release of their "Relationship Of Command" album, with the remaining three members going on to form the band Sparta. The newly-reunited group are now set to play this spring's Coachella festival.

The tracklisting for "Noctourniquet" is as follows:

01. The Whip Hand
02. Aegis
03. Dyslexicon
04. Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound
05. The Malkin Jewel
06. Lapochka
07. In Absentia
08. Imago
09. Molochwalker
10. Trinkets Pale Of Moon
11. Vedemalady
12. Noctourniquet
13. Zed And Two Naughts

Thanks for the report to NME.com.

Comments

[peachesenregali]

(incomprehensible high pitched gibberish and girly screaming)



This and the new Meshuggah in the same month!!

[BigSpence]

Yay!

[Steelrod]

YES

[beineken]

peachesenregali wrote on 01/18/2012 - 09:59 am / quote |
(incomprehensible high pitched gibberish and girly screaming)

For a second there I thought you were taking a stab at Omar's vocals haha. But seriously, I can't effin wait for this album!

[ziggy821]

nice

[ziggy821]

beineken wrote on 01/18/2012 - 02:24 pm / quote |
peachesenregali wrote on 01/18/2012 - 09:59 am / quote |
(incomprehensible high pitched gibberish and girly screaming)


For a second there I thought you were taking a stab at Omar's vocals haha. But seriously, I can't effin wait for this album!

Cedric does the vocals.

[ziggy821]

pretty badass it has this many songs!

[stephenunknown]

I heard a chunk of the new songs at the splendour in the grass festival and it sounded mega. Looking forward to this one!

[Karn Evil 9]

i've discovered the mars volta and at the drive-in 2 weeks ago.now they are going to release a new album and atdi got re-united,so great !