Blog: No Vegans - Cause We Like Meaty Beats!

After the Grammy award winning Latin-infused math rock album The Bedlam in Goliath the peak of The Mars Volta's evolution into electronic inspiration had been reached. Lead guitarist and self-proclaimed "benign dictator" of the group Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's latest independent projects up to that point had been increasingly inspired by electronic music. It was obvious that the band was heading in that direction, especially when you consider the sound of their previous album Amputechture compared to the one before it, Frances the Mute. But when their fifth studio album Octahedron was released in 2009 it was almost [...]