The Mars Volta

With bold diversity, the band - built around the constant duo of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala - explore territories previously uncharted with the spectrum of musical and emotional textures, ranging from bombast to menacing crawls punctuated throughout by hypnotic melodies and borderline electro-ambient washes, inspired by disparate elements including '80s UK alt-rockers The Godfathers, Superman comic nemesis Solomon Grundy and the Greek myth of Hyacinthus.