The Mars Volta Show Eight Faces

04/14/09 3:22pm

by Craig Clark (CHARTattack)

The Mars Volta will release their fifth studio album, Octahedron, on June 23 through Warner Bros.

The eight-track, 49-minute album was recorded by The Mars Volta's core duo of guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, with contributions from multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, drummer Thomas Pridgen, keyboardist Isaiah Owens, bassist Juan Alderete De La Pena and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante.

Album opener "Since We've Been Wrong" is the first single.

The Mars Volta won a best hard rock performance Grammy Award this year for "Wax Simulacra" from last year's The Bedlam In Goliath. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez released a solo album titled Old Money in January through Stones Throw Records.

The Mars Volta will perform here:

June 13 Manchester, TN @ Great Stage Park (Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival)
June 20 Scheessel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival
June 21 Neuhausen, Germany @ Southside Festival
June 23 Zurich, Switzerland @ Volkshaus
June 26 Milan, Italy @ Idroscalo Festival
June 28 Paris, France @ Olympia
June 29 Dusseldorf, Germany @ Stahlwerk
July 2 Arivka, Sweden @ Arivka Festival
July 3 Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival
July 5 Werchter, Belguim @ Rock Werchter Festival
July 6 Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Den Atelier
July 8 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
July 10 Kinross-Shire, Scotland @ T In The Park Festival
July 11 Dublin, Ireland @ Oxegen Festival
Aug. 29 San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Festival

Here are the tracks on Octahedron:

"Since We've Been Wrong"
"Teflon"
"Halo Of Nembutals"
"With Twilight As My Guide"
"Cotopaxi"
"Desperate Graves"
"Copernicus"
"Luciforms"