The Mars Volta Brings Epic Sound to Brooklyns Kings Theatre

The Mars Volta is back with a vengeance. After a 10-year hiatus, the prog rockers first announced a reunion and a self-titled album was coming in 2022. While the bands sound aged to a more mellow tone on the record, their fiery live shows remained intact, blending songs from their first three records 2003s

The Mars Volta is back with a vengeance. After a 10-year hiatus, the prog rockers first announced a reunion and a self-titled album was coming in 2022. While the band’s sound aged to a more mellow tone on the record, their fiery live shows remained intact, blending songs from their first three records — 2003’s “De-Loused in the Comatorium,” 2005’s “Frances the Mute” and 2006’s “Amputechture” — with re-worked versions of songs from “The Mars Volta.”

Although the band came through New York last year on their reunion tour, delivering a frantic and emotional set at Terminal 5, they returned on Sept. 22 to Kings Theatre in Brooklyn for anther round of vital, spacey rock. With another recently-released new album — this year’s “Qué Dios Te Maldiga Mí Corazón,” an acoustic take on “The Mars Volta” — the band sounded even looser and more experimental as their reunion shows roll on.

Guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López spoke with NME about the band’s love of playing live now that they’re reunited.

“It’s very exciting to have the opportunity to make another record, it’s very exciting that people want to hear new music and it’s very exciting that we can go and play for them,” he said. “There’s this reminder that we can all come together over something that we share in common, which is music. Playing live is really where it’s at for us, because you get to experience it together and it becomes this living, breathing thing.”

Check out the band’s Brooklyn show, with photos of Rodríguez-López, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodríguez-López, drummer Linda-Philomène Tsoungui and more.

Setlist:

Vicarious Atonement
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
Asilos Magdalena
L’Via L’Viaquez
Graveyard Love
Cygnus….Vismund Cygnus
Shore Story
Cicatriz ESP
Televators
Drunkship of Lanterns
The Widow
Son et lumiere
Inertiatic ESP

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