The Mars Volta's new single 'Cotopaxi' available inside:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAHHHH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MOKNhYvZc
Of a similar nature to 'The Bedlam in Goliath' material, so it is. Cedric's vox are sounding amazing and the key riff is a beast!
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in fact, it's quite Viscera Eyes-esque
with a more frantic feel a la The Bedlam In Goliath.
Cheers for this
Sounds good on first listen.
i put this yesterday in other thread. i scooped you :D
yeah it's awesome. i'm very excited about this. very.
I was actually doing some work yesterday and then i went out. You win.
Dreading being back teaching next week and having to actually work.
Is it just me or does this song sound like it's been cut? Methinks this is a radio edit
it ends far to quickly at the end... or maybe it just goes straight into the next track.
it's an abrupt start too, making me think it's another concept album
If anyone can accurately guess what the concept will then i'll pay you.
I'll go for:
A man called Teflon was born with a rare disease which made him born to look like an octopus. Teflon's favourite pasttime was to salsa dance in the ruins of Father Cotopaxi's home (Father Cotopaxi is, as you know, the monarch of an archaic tribe who live in Nigeria's only cat sanctuary). HOWEVER, upon hearing of Teflon's audacious disrespect for the emperor, Copernicus - inventor of Scrabble and descendent of Cotopaxi - decides to track Teflon for revenge.
Upon hearing of these plans, Teflon abandons his pasttime and heads for the desert, where his tentacles dry out in the harsh sand. It is here where, due to exhaustion and dehydration, that Teflon collapses under the moon and dreams of rescuing the Heplar document from the land of Grendronicon. Only then can Teflon truly escape Copernicus's rage, defeating all that stands before him.
Teflon's visions encourage him to persevere through the harsh desert conditions to reach the land of Grendronicon, where he arrives fatigued and severely parched. However, Teflon had failed to consider Copernicus's clairvoyant talents (the cymbal of jaal is a family heirloom, passed down from one generation to the next, thus finding its way from Father Cotopaxi to Teflon). Through reading the cymbal, Copernicus foresaw Teflon's arrival, where upon he challenged him to the most ferocious of battles: Scrabble whereby one's words must be longer than 7 letters and make no sense to anyone but an encyclopedia.
For each move that Teflon was unable to make, Copernicus would sever one of his tentacles. However, were Copernicus to be defeated and thrown from his Scrabble Throne, he would permit Teflon to continue his salsa dancing upon Cotopaxi's remnants.
The battle lasted hours, continuing well into the night (and containing many an imaginative word, such as 'luciforms', 'abligurition', 'zabernism', 'pococurantish', 'oggannition' and many more). Teflon, however, had been losing - both points and tentacles. With only one leg remaining, Teflon sat in agony, drowsy from loss of blood but eager to defeat Copernicus. Unfortunately, Copernicus used 'triskaidekaphobia' whilst Teflon was able to write only 'owl'. Copernicus's hearty laugh could be heard for a 10 mile radius whilst he brought down his axe-nose (yes, he has an axe for a nose) to remove Teflon's final tentacle.
With his collection of Teflon's 8 tentacles, Copernicus made an octahedron-shaped monument on Father Cotopaxi's remains as a warning for anybody who should wish to salsa dance there.
:'D
Whilst the band were on the raod in 2008 they met a young man called Farron who never spoke a word but wrote letters to each of the members of the band. This continued for several nights at various gigs - Farron would turn up each night in the same clothes at the venue with a ticket for that night that had already been redeemed before the doors had even opened. He only spoke thourgh written letters to one member of the band exclusively each night.
The last person he was to write to was Omar and he simply wrote the word OCTAHEDRON and wlaked away. Later that night in the tour bus all members of the band awoke to the voice of a man bellowing the words "Luciforms" and "Copernicus" in a deep voice. The lights came on and it was Farrow standing in the middle of the bus. He then todl a tale of two lovers; the beautiful princess Teflon and the peasant who is nameless. The stroy starts with the two lovers kissing under a mystical tree in a forest of long lost children. Teflon is then captured by her father's guards and the nameless peasant is killed by the guards.
She then meets with her father's advisor who tells her of the beacon of true love and that she must find her lover's reincarnated soul - true love will then reunite them in the land of the twilight. After a massive jounrey of over 100 years she finally finds her lover's soul, under the name Cotopaxi in a large black horse. She is then chased by her father's guards as she crusades to find the beacon of true love and enters the temple of Octahedron. As they enter the guards use magic to remove all life from the temple and the two souls escape with the help of Satan himself.
After the story is told the bus looses power and cuts out and the lights flicker off. Farrow screams and then he is gone.
I miss them taking drugs
felt less mighty boosh back then
hi there!
just popping by to say that i havent heard this, but its blatantly not as good as the EGN album!
i'm about 99.6% excited for the EGN album release
its brilliant
completely as good as you could expect. proper hella-y, proper the best parts of mars volta wigginooot. most catchy cedric vocals since deloused
make that 99.7%
"AH GOTTA FIX THE FUCKING SHAPE I'M IN!"
i don't like the vocals to tubercloids or however it's spelt.
they sound weak and lame.
the rest is very very sweet though.
EGN?
i wish people wouldnt abreiviate relativly unknown bands, but then who gets what they want eh
its a mars volta thread
thus you should know about El Grupo Nuevo. maybe.
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Omar R-L, Cedric B-Z, Zach Hill (Hella) project = amazingness
really? REALLY?
I kinda wanna hear it a bit now. hhhmnhmhmgmmhmhmm
sounds like rhcp
only not singing about California
:(
It doesn't really does it?
EGN
is fucking weird. I mean, really strange. Zach's drumming really suits Omar's playing nicely, but it has some of the most melodic sections Omars ever done mixed with some bizarre soundscapes. Its really dense as well. Cedric is channeling some weird Joplin shit. Gonna need a few listens
Cotopaxi?
that's a mountain in Ecuador. was the first thing i saw when i went. wtf?
It's like Mt. Rushmore, only with Cedric and Omar's faces
anyone else
think they peaked at francis? I didnt like bedlam that much but loved francis and thou amp was good too.
no
i don't think many people think that at all, what an unusual opinion..