“My totalitarian rule might not be cool, but at least we’ve made interesting records. At least we polarise people”: It took The Mars Volta three years and several arguments to make Noctourniquet

The Mars Volta.

Ten years under Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s benign dictatorship almost destroyed The Mars Volta – but the Texan zonk rockers’ wild ride got back on track with 2012’s Noctourniquet. That year the leader told Prog about the trials and tribulations of making their sixth album.

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