Watch trailer for brand spanking new Mars Volta documentary, revealing the friendship behind the band

A brand new trailer for upcoming documentary Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre has been launched, exhibiting glimpses of the friendship behind the bands The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In. Watch it under.

The clip, issued yesterday (October 31) by Oscilloscope Laboratories, contains a montage of archival footage from the vault of Mars Volta co-founder and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, with narration about his shut and prolific – although stormy – relationship over the many years with Cedric Bixler-Zavala.

“I’m glad that God has put us in the identical place and the identical time,” he says. “At the least this time, I assume.” Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre is ready for theatrical launch within the US on November 20.

The official description for the movie reads: “A movie that charts the inventive and private relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (On the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), advised virtually fully by way of a whole bunch of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar during the last 40 years.”

The Texas-formed band launched six studio albums between 2003 and 2012 earlier than splitting as a consequence of a falling-out between founding members Bixler-Zavala and Rodríguez-López. Within the years that adopted, the pair fashioned new group Antemasque and resurrected On the Drive-In for a brand new document in 2017.

“I spent hours on the telephone with Omar Rodríguez-López in February 2020. He advised me the story of his and Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s life collectively. It blew my thoughts,” Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre director Nicolas Jack Davies says in a press assertion.

“Earlier than the top of that month I flew to satisfy Omar in Puerto Rico the place we chatted for one more day and my pleasure to convey to life such a narrative as a movie grew exponentially.”

The choice to return to The Mars Volta was as a result of “it’s household,” Bixler-Zavala defined to NME in a 2022 interview. “It’s an outdated household pal that we needed to start out speaking with once more. It simply took a while to get it proper.” Re-releasing their earlier materials in 2021 “helped us shut the door on the previous and usher sooner or later,” he added.

The Mars Volta launched their self-titled comeback document in September 2022. The return effort scored a glowing five-star evaluate from NME‘s Andy Worth, who wrote: “‘The Mars Volta’ is a document that seizes the eye immediately, peppered as it’s with arresting top-lines. However it additionally calls for – and handsomely rewards – repeated listens, by advantage of its meticulously assembled preparations (simply bathe your ears in shining third single ‘Vigil”s luxuriant combine).”