The Mars Volta is a band playing — magnificently — for its life! Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala are trailblazing far from the paths tread by their prior band, At The Drive-In. The Mars Volta eschews conventional logic and the guys are pushing themselves into new artistic directions instead of opting for the more marketable sounds. Check out Octahedron, their brandnew release! A Mars Volta show is certainly not suitable for people who would like their life to be more boring. As a rock fan, you know that if the Volta comes to your town for a show, you’d have to be there or a little bit of your soul dies. That’s science fact.