THE MARS VOLTA | FIRST SOLO REACTION to Viscera Eyes | (Music w/ Nick) | Interesting and different!

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This is from the album Amputechture (2006) by The Mars Volta
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[@jacksonizzy1]

It’s never too late to discover one of the greatest bands of all time

[@stevestrums]

Wait till he finds out theodore and pridgen played on a single pedal

[@dav147]

"Frances The Mute" Album by Mars Volta is amazing Nick.

[@blamhof]

Amazing band that took progressive music to the next level. If you like this you would love their first two albums 'Deloused in the Crematorium' and 'Frances the Mute' which are two of the finest albums ever recorded. Although good the following albums never reached those heights.

[@lenni-hazels]

Amputechture and Bedlam are amazing as well, probably my most listened to. Also I like the Frances fan edit version without such long noise sections and the added title track better. Nick I would start at their debut album and work my way up chronologically ;-)

[@hrs9018]

More volta for sure, love watching people discover this band

[@johnladd8421]

man.. so glad you did this. can’t wait for you to react to any song they do. they’re all good. i’ll say “ Drunkship of Lanterns”. that’s my pick and i’m sticking with it. ha!!

[@jamesbligh6607]

You're making the 'im listening to mars volta' face!

[@bugleaf9603]

tetragrammaton is 16 minutes long but, SO worth a listen. that song is…. a masterpiece. i cant put it any other way

[@VoltaMagica]

On the name of the band, lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala said in an interview that "The Volta is taken from a Federico Fellini book about his films, what he characterizes as a changing of scene, or a turnaround; a new scene to him is called Volta. And 'Mars', we're just fascinated by science-fiction"

[@GetShorty29]

This is awesome to know… I always wondered what the genesis of their name was… Thank you 🤘

[@crouchingtiger9108]

Deloused in the comatorium start to finish, let's go!

[@murdockreviews]

Tremendous album. Bought it the year it came out, and it still fascinates me.

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

Hell yes

[@je9950]

Dude. I asked you guys to play Volta so many times I gave up lol

[@theartistformerlyknownasje6358]

Jason Newsted probably saw The Mars Volta in concert once🤷‍♂️ but I do know Flea and John Frusciante of the RHCP played on a couple of their albums 👍 but more Mars Volta reaction would be nice

[@edcurtis6696]

If you can pull off the full 32-minute version of “Cassandra Gemini,” you’ll be legendary! 🤘

[@ed_d.chavez6083]

Congrats 4 givin you the chance to know TMV. Amazing progressive band, they have a bit of King Crimson, Pink Floyd, YES AND latin music like salsa or cumbia. Greetings!

[@buddysaile973]

Viscera Eyes is fantastic dude, great pick! Try Ciciatriz ESP off Deloused In the Comatorium, it completely changed my perception of this band. I hope it makes it onto your radar soon. Fantastic band, the new singles sound great too. They just came out last week and Blacklight Shine with the bomba music and dancing is just fucking fire man, tribal Puerto Rican music. What's not to like?

[@dan.j.boydzkreationz]

I'm personally struggling with how different the more recent MV tracks are from that 70s psychedelic prog sound, Noctouriquet included.

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

Cicatriz Esp is one of my favorites by them.

[@PJprog]

Great modern prog band and so very unique. Brilliant choice Nick. Deloused , and Frances the mute are certainly the crowd favourites but my fave is The Bedlam in Goliath album. Just connect with it more. Love the sleeve artwork on all the albums too.

[@ocrOPK]

The drumming is so crazy. Their whole catalog is brilliant!

[@elchuky1942]

Aguante NICK 💪🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[@darkhoundslobber2028]

You nailed it with your reaction and analysis of their sound. They have a great discography and a lot of awesome songs, but listening to them in album form is the best way to go about it if that's feasible on your reaction channel.

[@daveduarte8796]

You're entire perception of music is about to change the moment you finnish to listen - The Mars Volta " Frances the mute " !! I'm a big prog music fan since eternitiy , so you have been warn my friend. BIG FAN of yours Yes reviews to. and of course , my like in this is been in place , the moment I read the tittle of the video Saludos desde argentina Alex !!!

[@jeremiahbayani184]

The way you're grooving I can tell you get it

[@njojje]

More volta reactions👍

[@tonys2899]

Good stuff. I listened to a couple of their albums 4 or 5 years ago. I am going to have to revisit this band some more.

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Funny thng, I never got on with Deloused - yet this is cracking! Best MV I'ved heard - Very good! :)

[@Neorigg]

They are my favorite band!! You should do the whole album, it's amazing!! They have nothing to do with Jason Newsted tho :P

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

Love the Mars Volta, Deloused in the Comatorium and Frances the Mute are their best albums.

[@jmarsvolta]

This song is mainstream compared to their other stuff..

[@rudolfbecker4313]

If you like this song, you also MUST listen to L'Via L'Viaquez !!! Crazeee 🤨 Mars Volta is hard to describe, it is prog, but other than that a genre of its own. I don't know any band, that I would name, if someone asks me what they sound like. I don't know, but sometimes it seems like having "strange" names like Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Alfredo Rodriguez-Lopez is an obligation to create "unusual" music 😆 I own 1 Mars Volta CD - Frances the mute - great music, but listening to the whole CD can be exhausting .... and you have to listen, definitely no background music 🤘 Fun fact: I just watched a live recording of 2003 and Cedric reminded me of 3 different singers: the look is a bit like Marc Bolan, the singing style is like Robert Plant at certain parts of the song and the movements remind me of a young Joe Cocker 😆

[@HollowGolem]

I usually describe them as "what if King Crimson were into Latin jazz."

[@murdockreviews]

This was awesome. I don't think Jason Newstead ever was part of this, but members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers guested on their debut. A lot of early Mars Volta was very intense and proggy in a modern way. This is still comparatively straight forward. Other tracks are pure madness.

[@rudolfbecker4313]

Hi Toby, what happened to Mr Moriarty ? 😆 Great request, makes me want to request more "crazy" stuff, but the list is so long and the ranking changes daily 🤘

[@murdockreviews]

@@rudolfbecker4313 😄 since I have released a few album reviews on youtube, i thought i'd give the channel a "proper" name - even though nobody's watching 😄

[@rudolfbecker4313]

@@murdockreviews dann antworte ich dir mit dem Song einer berühmten Kölner Band : da bin ich dabei, dat is pri-hi-ma, viva (im Original Colonia) .... hm, dein Name reimt sich irgendwie nicht 🙂

[@murdockreviews]

@@rudolfbecker4313 😁👍🙏

[@NicknLex]

Ich Idiot habe es mit Voivod verwechselt... Wahrscheinlich Volta und Voivod. Hey ich wusste garnicht dass du ein KZbin Kanal hast. Bin jetzt dein neuster sub. Du machst dass wunderbar Tobi. Dass video von Kate Bush wahr super interessant!!! Bitte mach weiter🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@mattrahabu4915]

this is a request from a recent fan, and from a Post-rock fan, about 7 months ago, you reacted to Sigus Rós, and I really wanted you to understand better about Post-rock, because for me it's the best musical genre, if they could react to the band Mogwai, or Bark Psychosis, my two favorite bands

[@jmarsvolta]

Your mic was off the whole song.

[@NicknLex]

The music was so loud that my mic was basically useless. I rather not interrupt the songs in the future 😉

[@boyzngrillz]

Hey friend, I think you're thinking of Voi Vod. Newsted was in

[@dia6oliclord]

The mars volta si not a band, is a force from nature.

[@laynesanders738]

do Day of the Baphomets

[@laynesanders738]

@nicknlex9135 IDK what telegram is today.

[@pablerry]

THE MARS VOLTA RABBIT HOLE IS AS DEEP AS TOOL´S, ZEPP, RUSH, YES ETC.

[@dan.j.boydzkreationz]

I'm thinking it's "the Orbit of Planet Mars"

[@ftlpope]

Saw them way back when but they were never quite as good as At The Drive In. This real heavy music - not pantomime metal. Glad you found them.

[@lenni-hazels]

What the hell is pantomime metal lol

[@Matt..G]

#nicknlexrequest Hi guys, I don't believe you have reacted to the band Gov't Mule as of yet. Gov't Mule was founded in 1995 by Allman Bros guitarist Warren Haynes. Awesome guitarist and great vocalist Haynes has created some really killer albums and continues to do so. I would say their sound is not far from their Allman Bros roots but is heavier and more electric in their sound. I am suggesting these four songs. hope you give them a chance. I have a feeling you both will appreciate what they do. Thanks in advance. Matt G. (Gravityking) Album: Dose (1998) Songs: "Thorazine Shuffle" and "Larger Than Life" Album: The Deep End (2001) Song: Banks Of The Deep End" Album: High And Mighty (2006) Song: "Endless Parade" * Enjoy!

[@dyrkeschaefer]

Totally dig this band. Can't listen to them all of the time, though. If you like bands like this, check bands like Mutemath, White Denim, Motorpsycho, etc, too.

[@murdockreviews]

There are two motorpsycho reactions on the channel, though Nick didn't fully warm up to them. White Denim are great - though quite different, more Southern Rock meets indie meets psychedelic. Love them 😀

[@michaosanna]

honestly I have my special issures with this band, but I need to accept that Frances the Mute is one hardly giant epic record in the realms of prog rock. But the albums that comes after this: aren't they just a replicant apearance of this masterpiece?

[@jacksonizzy1]

Hardly. Quite the opposite.

[@m.f.3347]

lmao if you think Bedlam in Goliath, Octahedron or Noctourniquet sound anything like this

[@dejalstar]

Ok ur faces and so on.... and? Is that a reaction? Respect TMV.

[@NicknLex]

Well next time I can stand on my head if you like.

[@KahurangiSteez]

This album is awesome but this is quite possibly the weakest track on the album haha. It's a lot more standard and more of a single than the other longer tracks like Tetragrammton or Day Of Baphomets which are much more memorable from the album. You should check out some of those instead next time haha

[@iorch82]

No fucking way. This cut is nuts. Everything of it indeed, Omar main melodies, groove, vocal lines.. OMG.

[@dan.j.boydzkreationz]

Check out the kinda title cut Meccamputechture. Mecca-amputation-architecture