The Mars Volta "Octahedron" DeeCracks Bleed Out is as exuberantly

Bleed Out is as exuberantly heavy as it is politically profound

Chase Atlantic released their eponymous debut album

originally released in 2002 but long out-of-print

unabashedly brutal

The Mars Volta "Octahedron" DeeCracks Bleed Out is as exuberantlyEach 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 its makers within milliseconds of its 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 drummer Thomas Pridgen, and their ranks