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The Mars Volta is a Grammy awarding winnig progressive/American rock band that was created in 2001 after the split of At the Drive-in. The players in the band are Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Blixer Zavala, Thomas Pridgen, and Ikey Owens. The Mars Volta's first Album was called De-loused in the Comatorium made in 2003. Their other albums include Frances the Mute made in 2005, Amputecture made in 2006, The Bedlam in Goliath made in 2008, and Octahedron, their last album made in 2009. The band uses many fusions of jazz, funk, and latin/salsa using many instruments and synthizers. Thought out the bands career they were know for using drugs in 2003 before De-loused in the Comatorium came out, after the albums released one of thier band member died after he overdosed on opoiods. So they vowed to stop use the drugs forever.



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