The Mars Volta announce first album since 2012
completemusicupdate.comThe Mars Volta have announced that they will release their first album for more than a decade next month.When it was released in 2012, the band’s sixth album – ‘Noctourniquet’ – received mixed although generally positive reviews, but did not match the commercial success of earlier releases.
After touring that album, guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López announced that the band had gone on hiatus while, at the beginning of 2013, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala said that they had broken up.Both Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala have been hinting at a reunion for several years now, but it wasn’t until June this year that they revealed new music – initially as part of an art installation that appeared in Grand Park in Los Angeles, where they unveiled a portion of their first reunion single ‘Blacklight Shine’.A second single, ‘Graveyard Love’, followed, and now with the announcement of the album – to be titled ‘The Mars Volta’ – comes a third, ‘Vigil’.
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