Post by piesore on Dec 10, 2002 19:05:23 GMT -5
From the prp:
The April Volta - wookubus
(3:47 PM MST 12/09/2002)
The Mars Volta have now set an April 29th release date for their upcoming and as of yet untitled Universal debut. The effort features the production talents of none other than Rick Rubin (Slayer, System Of A Down).
I'm really excited personally. While it's nice to fantasize about ATDI being back together, let's be realistic, the guys just couldn't get along and it would have affected their performance and music abilities, and everything else that made them so amazing. Out of the two bands that split off, I think that Mars Volta is the one that has the potential to carry on the revolutionary torch that ATDI lit. Their Tremulant EP still isn't as good as Relationship of Command era ATDI, but that's not a slight to the Mars Volta as much as it is a testament ot ATDI's greatness. And I think that if their Tremulant EP is to their debut as Vaya was to the Relationship of Command, the Mars Volta will end up being better than ATDI.
Then again, Rick Rubin is a really hands off producer, pretty much 180 dg from Ross Robinson, so I don't know how much crafting of their sound into a sonic revolution is going to happen, my guess is not much judging from what Rubin tends to do with bands. In any case, the band is inherently good, so I don't doubt that they'll be able to pull something great off. And at the very least, the will be blistering live. From what I've heard, the Mars Volta are even crazier than ATDI live.
And while they're technically more prog rock than Sparta, I think they have a musical edge and intensity in their music that makes them rock a whole lot harder. Listening to Tremulant wasn't the instant love affair that I had with RoC, but by the seventh or eight listen, I realized that the problems with the CD were more in the production, sounding too synthy at times, and not all of the elements blending together as they did with ATDI to form one big orgy of audio quality. So hopefully Rubin will step up as a producer and fix all of these problems and convince the band not to delve too much into their directionless jams that some of their songs go into (kind of the last half of Roulette Dares and the last three minutes of Eunuch Provoceteur).
Also, I don't know if any of you have heard about this, but the Mars Volta is also lined up for a European tour opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers in March. I don't know what they are doing for this side of the pond however.
In any case, this album should really be something to look foward to considering how long they've been working on it.
The April Volta - wookubus
(3:47 PM MST 12/09/2002)
The Mars Volta have now set an April 29th release date for their upcoming and as of yet untitled Universal debut. The effort features the production talents of none other than Rick Rubin (Slayer, System Of A Down).
I'm really excited personally. While it's nice to fantasize about ATDI being back together, let's be realistic, the guys just couldn't get along and it would have affected their performance and music abilities, and everything else that made them so amazing. Out of the two bands that split off, I think that Mars Volta is the one that has the potential to carry on the revolutionary torch that ATDI lit. Their Tremulant EP still isn't as good as Relationship of Command era ATDI, but that's not a slight to the Mars Volta as much as it is a testament ot ATDI's greatness. And I think that if their Tremulant EP is to their debut as Vaya was to the Relationship of Command, the Mars Volta will end up being better than ATDI.
Then again, Rick Rubin is a really hands off producer, pretty much 180 dg from Ross Robinson, so I don't know how much crafting of their sound into a sonic revolution is going to happen, my guess is not much judging from what Rubin tends to do with bands. In any case, the band is inherently good, so I don't doubt that they'll be able to pull something great off. And at the very least, the will be blistering live. From what I've heard, the Mars Volta are even crazier than ATDI live.
And while they're technically more prog rock than Sparta, I think they have a musical edge and intensity in their music that makes them rock a whole lot harder. Listening to Tremulant wasn't the instant love affair that I had with RoC, but by the seventh or eight listen, I realized that the problems with the CD were more in the production, sounding too synthy at times, and not all of the elements blending together as they did with ATDI to form one big orgy of audio quality. So hopefully Rubin will step up as a producer and fix all of these problems and convince the band not to delve too much into their directionless jams that some of their songs go into (kind of the last half of Roulette Dares and the last three minutes of Eunuch Provoceteur).
Also, I don't know if any of you have heard about this, but the Mars Volta is also lined up for a European tour opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers in March. I don't know what they are doing for this side of the pond however.
In any case, this album should really be something to look foward to considering how long they've been working on it.
