This Band have a rare quality: He blend complex music, intellectual lyrics,noise with heart-touching melodies...

My favorite song on Octahedron is Teflon. Dear God, it's so amazing.

simply incredible

had to come back and listen to this song another hundred times lol

You're right that it's "tamed". There is a bio tab on the mars volta website and in it there is an interview where Omar states that when he was recording and mixing Octahedron he wanted to express restraint in each song. He stated that he had to fight the urge to "add 98 more parts to song and tons of jam sessions".

This is album is actually amazing

What a good song live, absolutely amazing.

Can't ever get enough of this band. Totally junkie at this point.Seriously, badass.

AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!! You rock!

Great pics! Love it.

I can't get enough of these guys. Thanks a ton for putting this up. My friend is coming over now to give me the full album. Haha.

i heart this track!!!!!!

He said in an interview one of his big inspirations was Bjork.

Very nice song

So true.

yes!!!!

I think this is my favorite song on this album.

I fuckin love the odd cymbal accents during the main beat

Woah....the symbolism!

Música más allá de tu mente! y mucho más este disco que es totalmente danzante en venas!

thank you i found it yet :D

their lyrics all mean something. Some of them are commentaries on the improper proccesses of some mebers of the psychology world, some are about human mortality, some are about understanding the deepest parts of our own consciousness. It's a matter of looking into it from different points of view. Some of them from a point of view that I couldn't acheive until smoking weed and experimenting with psychadelics.

love that artwork background!! sick

This one and Copernicus with its electronic arrangements are just inexplicably perfect.

for the first time since ive heard, mars volta came with lyrics that actually MEANT something. teflon is about a sout american official(might have been an undercover cop) that was found out at some sort of gathering. what they did was put a bunch of tires over him up to his head and then set it on fire. the videos on the interweb somewhere.

Bedlam is actually my favorite album.

Its amazing what omar and cedric have evolved to. ive been with them since at the drive in. Hell Paso! and i still love at the drive in!

I really like that this album doesn't try to play up the instrumentation. Pretty straightforward rock with very Volta touches.

with a body inside! oh i

melodias infernales.... espaciales.... apasionadas

God I love this song... It's so damn beautiful =)

one of there smoothest records

great song. great hair.

more more more! I can't get enough of these guys. Mars Volta and Mastodon are the future of Prog Rock and music in general. Just my opinion.

JUAN ALDERETE (: i love him haha

had the same feeling.

this vid was my fav cuz i have this song

wow

the drums are immense. enough said :)

love this song..want that background!!

"Taking all the hostages into the oval office Draw the curtains and pull the trigger softly" Fuckin' mental!

Boom.

I like how this song is about Cedric's idea on what would happen if McCain was elected.

Omars guitar work is like if robert fripp colided with eddie hazel and john mclauglin, fuckin brilliant

i fuckin love this band. omar's a modernday Mingus.

I agree, love Bedlam.

i luld

@Luckzzz Thats what I think of them too. After more then 10 years with no interest to music, they woke me up again. Bravo Volta and thanks for the music I adore.

i'm a huge pink floyd fan and this is the closest modern band i can relate to them

it kicks major ass.

I'd storm the white house with this song screaming in my head.

ohhh my god a sample from amthgf!!! a story teeth rooted for damn i want this album now!!!

"As the way we write songs and words, if it looks great on paper then to us it's like painting, so if it looks good meaning the second then people usually have a better interpretation than we ever would." It means whatever the hell you think it means, lol.

let the whheeellz burn Lett that wheeellzzz burn

Absolutely chilling, each time I hear it. Every note resonates like frigin dynamite. What is next boy's? As I joined this odessey long ago and am ready for more.....

'A story teeth rotted for' off omar's 'absence makes the heart grow fungus'. if you all havent already noticed. great song

FODASSO!

I fucking love you for saying that

fav album is frances, every track on deloused (except thier bonus track ambuletz) was a hit. but frances was just epic, then amputecture came out and that shit was still a good ass album and had all epic ass songs. and most songs in bedlam were good, and had that raunchy volta feel to it to the upmost extent of thier other albums and that's why i appreciated bedlam so much. But this one just seems like they strewn a bunch of songs together...

de-loused is untouchable

No shit, its fucking beautiful.

Haha this basically sums it up in words that everyone can understand.

@asspills I see where you're coming from but i respect Pridgens drumming even more here because everyone knows he's a tech-wizard on drums but he also knows how to hang back and let the song sing by keeping the drumming more musical and relaxed instead of overtly technical

love this song. love this band 0:43 to 0:52 sounds like geddy lee from Rush.

It's a mystery. Bedlam is SICK!

Really? Wow...wait now that I think about it I do remember watching an interview about him saying that. Wow

@ChaostheClown It's not spam. I just searched them on KZread, and they're really good. They're definitely worth checking out. Like a softer Mars Volta.

love love love it. although i'm a sucker for With Twilight as My Guide. so bad ass

Buena Pieza!

@sprackles this song is about what cedric would do if the republicans win the elections, you its like a "what if...". its in an interview. sorry for my bad english

It took me a while to get into it, but I love noctourniquet.

on their next albums, juan, marcel and cedric will all get creative freedom on the songwriting process. which basically means, the mars volta we once knew will probably never be the same. Good thing we got Deloused, frances the mute, amputechure, and octohedron on discs forever though.

don't forget the ever surprising Mastodon :D

Teflon is a nickname for a politician to whom criticism does not stick kind of like Kennedy or Reagen who no matter what the scandal, his popularity never dragged.

If you read the interviews with Steven Wilson, You will know what to steven wilson really likes the musical work of Mars Volta

Ah, well, thanks anyway. But I did what you said and looked it up on wiki. Here's the info. Teflon includes parts from the song "A Story Teeth Rotted For" on Omar's solo album "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus".

omar's side project is way more experimental and musically interesting But I do really like this song/parts of the new album for what it is.

Glad to see many other Porcupine Tree fans out there! TMV and Porcupine Tree are both two of the most fantastic bands out there, some of the rarely good modern prog.

I saw TMV open for SOAD... great show! But TMV and PT would be epic!

let the wheels burn let the wheels burn stack the tires to the neck with the body inside.

Love this sound much better than Amp or Bedlam. Great move retiring Paul and Adrian. Sometimes less is more.

The Mars Volts feels like MDMA and 2CB.

let the wheels burn let the wheels burn stack the tires to the neck with the body inside i don't know what the hell it meens.... but i fucking luv it!!!!

@MrKillaknot actulyy this beat is a bit of a polyrythem count out the intro and follow the snare and cymbal work they are in diffrent time sigs.

wow! yo apenas vengo conosiendo a la banda y mi primera impresión hasta ahora es que son como una banda hija de led zeppelin lo cual me encanta!!!! sin palabras !!!!!!

AH MAH GAWD, forum drama!

they matured

@ieroscarpet apparently it was like on purpose? i remember reading it somewhere

@MasterHMH Haha I'm glad that I could be of assistance.

@deigam no comparison at all. Agreed.

It's stacking tires over a person and lighting it on fire.

@jazzybrandon808 wikipedia?

@jmhemmis0 It's like Rush meets Pink Floyd.

@asspills Even the most gifted drummers don't just chug out insanely fast beats every song. The most talented drummers know how to restrain themselves in order to fit the feel of the song.

es muy buena banda y como dices ellos son los que llevan el legado de led zeppelin

Good bands all change. Look at Opeth. I'm glad The Mars have explored new sounds with each outing, and clearly Octahedron is no exception. And if they can expand their audience while making mindblowing music, more power to them. This is a terrific song, whichever way you look at it (as a fan of the band or not).

@joshcky0113 i love ATDI. such a good band ive been a fan of them waaay before Mars Volta, but i still them!

thats what i was thinking..this album is like the pumpkins meet manson meet idk something..

this cd. oh my god. so amazing. i mean even the first song, i think i died or something haha. is it just me or i think someones IN LOOOOVE??? :) i think he issss! okay well yeah this one has to be my other favorite. but the whole cd is.... okay... shutting up now haha... :)

cedric just handles the vocals and lyrics. though ive heard a few times omar writes some of the shit that is in spanish.