The Mars Volta has shared a new batch of headlining North American tour dates to accompany the release of its new album, Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio [ticket information]. The sprawling 18-track, 49-minute release follows a mysterious and on-brand rollout campaign that saw the band play the entire album live in concert front-to-back but not release any singles.
The new Mars Volta tour dates will begin October 25th in Dallas and run through November 29th in San Diego. Along the way, the Latin-infused post-prog band led by guitarist/producer Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala will visit Houston (10/28), Miami Beach (10/31), Atlanta (11/2), Boston (11/8), Brooklyn (11/9), Toronto (11/11), Detroit (11/13), Chicago (11/14), Denver (11/18), Portland, OR (11/21), and a run of California dates in Sacramento (11/24), Oakland (11/25), Pasadena (11/26), Riverside (11/28), and the tour closer in San Diego. The band will announce special guests for the tour at a later date.
Tickets for the new Mars Volta 2025 tour dates will go on pre-sale on Monday, April 14th, before going on sale to the general public Friday, April 18th at 10 a.m. local time. See below for a full list of dates and head here for tickets. These headlining shows will follow The Mars Volta’s string of dates opening for Deftones.
The tour accompanies Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio, The Mars Volta’s second album of new material since the band returned from a nine-year breakup in 2022 (the group also released an acoustic redux of its self-titled 2022 comeback album in 2023). This latest album release cycle felt appropriate for the band that announced its reunion by installing a giant cube in L.A. that played music from an unreleased album.
Technically, The Mars Volta never even announced Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio. Instead, the band played the 18-song album in its entirety on the first night of its tour opening for Deftones back in February. Only on April 7th did The Mars Volta’s label Cloud Hills confirm the album’s existence, four days before it landed on shelves and streaming services without any singles. Rather than issuing any press itself, The Mars Volta allowed music journalists to do the work for them by covering the full-album performance and organically publishing speculations on a forthcoming release.
As for the contents of Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio, the disc is a reliably eclectic mix of jazz, pop, and Latin influences. It shies away from the post-hardcore prog-rock bludgeoning of The Mars Volta’s groundbreaking earlier releases Deloused in the Comatorium and Frances the Mute, instead showing Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s continuing artistic evolutions.
Between The Mars Volta and Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio, the band also issued the documentary Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird. The brilliant and immersive film is made up almost entirely of film Omar shot on a hand-held camera over the past 40 years and provides a touching, heartbreaking, and sometimes infuriating portrait of the friendship at the center of The Mars Volta. Toward the end of the film, as Omar and Cedric mend fences and approach the idea of getting the band back together, they make it clear that if they’re going to do this thing, they’re going to do it for them. They’re not going to get back together to make the music that labels or even longtime fans wish them to make, they’re going to make the music that feels authentic to them. And it sounds like that’s what Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio is.
The Mars Volta — Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio — Full Album
