Mars Volta have revealed that their new album "The Bedlam In Goliath" will be released on Jan 29th 2008. The follow up to 2006's "Amputechture" was produced by guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez and includes contributions from Red hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. The first single released on iTunes is 'Wax Simulacra'.
Bixler-Zavala explains in an MTV News article that the main theme of Bedlam is the band's attempt to artistically reverse their perceived bad luck which they attribute to an object purchased by Rodriguez-Lopez during a trip to Jerusalem. The object itself was described as an ancient equivalent to a modern Ouija board and the band casually referred to it as 'The Soothsayer'. "
"We used to get the band to play it a lot after we'd play shows in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do. It serves the same function as a Ouija board, but it's just a little more archaic," Bixler-Zavala elaborated, adding that the band discovered a number of poems attached to the board. "This version of it had a sort of love triangle that was attached to it — the poems we found with it sort of described a mother-daughter-and-other-man love triangle, and what I came up with from it was we were being contacted by at least three people on the board that would come up as one person. We wrote down a lot of the messages they gave us, and we used it in the lyrics, and we also tried to fasten the lyrics into sort of like a good-luck charm, by putting positive elements into it..."
"After a while, we started having a lot of bad luck happen to us, and we kind of got rid of the thing. The album is basically a sort of ... it's like the Ghostbusters, when they want to catch a ghost, they throw out this little trap on the floor, and they open it. The record serves as a bunch of little traps, so when the record comes out, people will have those traps, and they can play the game and try to reverse the bad luck we've had come from it".
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