The Mars Volta - Octahedron

The Mars Volta - OctahedronLimited red colored vinyl LP pressing. Each of the Mars Volta albums that preceded Octahedron had pushed the envelope further, their music growing larger, more intense, more complex. Each had delivered an implied, unspoken challenge to it's makers within milliseconds of it's final notes: "top this". And with each subsequent album, Omar and Cedric had turned their creative dials up one more notch, a further step past "eleven". With the addition of new

delivering an intoxicating mix of funk

which meant they never had any official "hits

Sleep releases their first full-length album of new recordings since 1998 on Third Man Records

but they reveal an unsettling darkness with each progressive listen

A funk-rock classic

it was elected by Metal Hammer as the 20th best symphonic metal album

Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering the album for the first time

equaled only by vocalist David Lee Roth

Celeste and Taylor Swift with side 2 contains original score music by Kris Bowers

definitively shattering any remnants of creative confines or stylistic pigeon holes

and metalcore accompanied with their habitual post-hardcore and experimental rock style

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