The Mars Volta has unearthed a new device: an American tour.
The Rockers of Prog of El Paso announced their tour on Friday, the same day they launched their ninth album, “dirty profit; the eyes of emptiness.”
The tour will begin on October 25 in Dallas before reaching the west coast at the end of November. The group will stop at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on November 26 and at the Municipal Auditorium of Riverside on November 28 and concluded its tour with an performance at Soma Concert Hall in San Diego on November 29.
This main tour comes just after the Mars Volta that serves as special guests on the North America of 2025 of Deftones, which wrapped on April 9 with a performance in Newark, NJ, the Volta Mars Volta joined by Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes and Bosnian Rainbows), who sang the voice of the back.
The composers of “The Widow” will arrive on the road to promote the new LP expanding, which is an electro-jazz epic of 18 tracks. “Dirty profit” is his third album since he met in 2022, after a nine-year parenthesis that began when one of the founding members of the band, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, decided to separate from the group.
In 2009, Bixler-Zavala began dating his now wife, who presented him with the world of science. He said that his interactions with Scientology and Scientologists helped him kick his expensive habit of marijuana.
“Friends and family at first, if that were what worked for me. But some opposed vocally,” Bixler-Zavala told Times in a 2023 interview. “I was caught in my problems and in my own world of the bubble. I couldn't see any of that.”
Bixler-Zavala's religion had become a wedge behind the scene when Mars Volta separated in 2013. His immersion in his culture alarmed friends. Bixler-Zavala and his founding partner Omar Rodríguez-López suffered a stormy friendship and forward (sometimes not speaking with each other, sometimes playing in shared parallel projects) for years later.
When describing the role of Scientology in the band's breakup, Bixler-Zavala said: “I have dealt with that with great difficulty. But Omar allowed me to return and make peace, possess my last bull.”
“It's hard to speak,” Rodríguez-López said, “when you love someone and worry about them.”
Bixler-Zavala and his wife began to move away from Scientology after they stated in a 2019 demand that the organization had begun a relentless campaign of harassment and threats against them to intimidate them after she said that the outstanding scientist Danny Masterson had sexically and physically assaulted her in the early 2000s.
“Anger can really blind you and avoid any responsibility,” said Bixler-Zavala in 2023. “One of my thanks to save is having [Rodríguez-López] In my life. Being so patient with me is a humiliating experience. I have not always been with him, and yet, he has allowed me to make peace and own my past. “
“I think you have to love the decisions you have made, even when you have been wrong,” said Rodríguez-López.
Times Music August Brown reporter contributed to this report.
