The Volta de Mars has found a new device: a North American tour headlining.
Progressive Paso Rockers announcement Their Friday – the same day, they dropped their ninth album, “Dirty Profit; The Eyes of Vide”.
The tour will start on October 25 in Dallas before going to the west coast at the end of November. The group will stop at the Pasadena Civic auditorium on November 26 and at the Auditorium Municipal Riverside on November 28 and finish its tour with a performance at the Soma Concert Hall in San Diego on November 29.
This headliner is just in the heels of the Mars Volta as special guests on the North American Deftones tour, which finished on April 9 with a performance in Newark, NJ The Mars Volta was joined by Teri Gender Bender (the butcherettes and the Arcs-en-Ciel arcs of Bosnia), which sang votes.
The songwriters of “The Widow” will take the road to promote the new sprawling LP, which is an electro-jazz epic with 18 tracks. “Lucro Sucio” is their third album since his meeting in 2022 – after a nine -year interruption that started when one of the group's founding members, Cedric Bixler -Zavala, decided to separate from the group.
In 2009, Bixler-Zavala began to go out with his wife who presented the world of Scientology to him. He said his interactions with Scientology and Scientologists helped him Dear marijuana habit.
“Friends and family were favorable at first, if it was going to be that thing that worked for me. But some were vocally opposed ”, Bixler-Zavala said to The Times In an interview in 2023. “I was stuck in my problems and my own bubble world. I didn't see any of this. ”
The religion of Bixler-Zavala had become a corner behind the scenes when the Volta of Mars broke in 2013. Its immersion in its culture alarmed friends. Bixler-Zavala and another founding member of the Omar Rodríguez-López group have endured a stormy and offbeat friendship (sometimes not speaking, sometimes playing in projects on the shared side) for years later.
Describing the role of Scientology in the rupture of the group, Bixler-Zavala said: “I fought with that with great difficulty. But Omar allowed me to come back and make amends, to recognize my past by the Taurus -.
“It's hard to speak,” said Rodríguez-López, “when you love someone and worry about them.”
Bixler-Zavala and his wife began to move away from Scientology after having affirmed in a 2019 trial that the organization had started a harassment and incessant threat campaign in order to intimidate them after having affirmed this eminent scrucinologist Danny Masterson made sexual assault and physical in the early 2000s.
“Anger can really blind you and prevent you from any responsibility,” said Bixler-Zavala in 2023. “One of my safeguard graces (Rodríguez-López) in my life. He is so patient with me, it is a humiliating experience. I have not always been in this way with him, and yet he allowed me to put me in place.”
“I think you have to love the decisions you have made, even when you were wrong,” said Rodríguez-López.
Times Music Reporter August Brown contributed to this report.
