The duo that makes up The Mars Volta have posted what they are calling the "story" of their upcoming album. The new record is titled The Bedlam In Goliath and is due out January 29, 2008. It is the follow-up to Amputechture which was released in 2006. .The lengthy story is available as a Word document, but here is a little taste:

The genesis of The Mars Volta’s new album The Bedlam in Goliath is one of the weirdest stories in the history of modern music, a tale of long-buried murder victims and their otherworldly influence, of strife and near collapse, of the long hard fight to push “the record that did not want to be born” out into the world. And I swear we’ll get to all of that in a second. It’s always about a man, a woman, and her mother. About the lust floating between them. About seduction and infidelity. And pain. And eventually, murder. Entrails and absence and curses and oblivion. Exactly the kind of spooky shit you’d want from your Ouija.

It's long, but you wouldn't be a true Volta fan if you didn't read and analyze the entire thing and then discuss it on The Comatorium.

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