The Mars Volta is a band that seems to be quite popular recently. They just released a cd. Which is mostly harmless, except that it sounds horrible.
If you want to listen to it, you can
here. Viscera eyes is the song that's been played on satelite radio a lot, so I'll talk about that one.
First they lay down a nice guitar lick. Then they play a guitar solo over it, and it just doesn't fit. Then the singing starts, which is really incomprehensible high pitched singing. I'm pretty sure it's latin, but it just doesn't fit. The whole song keeps going on just like this until the end which sounds like the song is being played on a crappy radio for a couple of seconds to remind you they are a "prog" band. Then it goes back to the same old licks. The worst part may be the ending, which sounds like the begining of a guitar solo being cut of very early.
It really just sounds like some people through some loops together in Acid Music Studio, and got someone to sing high pitch gibberish over it.
I just don't see how people like the mars volta.
It probably helps that he looks strangely like the very funny Tobias Funke from Arrested development with a beard and fro.
Tobias
Tobias (top) looks like the guy on the left of the bottom picture from Mars Volta.
Overall, The Mars Volta is a lame band.