Bands that really should still be around

[Slothy]

I forgot ATDI were back together. Why won't they make new stuff. Omar

Nah, Omar and Cedric don't like each other anymore. No more ATDI or tMV.

Honestly though, the last two Mars Volta albums were sub par.

They weren't up to the standard of the first four, but I'm sure they'll still be better than anything either of them does on their own

I'd say both were far better than Amputecture, but then, Amputecture was so mind numbingly bad that I didn't listen to a new Mars Volta album until finally giving Bedlam in Goliath a shot maybe two or three months ago. Then I realized that Amputecture was probably an anomaly and grabbed the rest. Now sure, not everything on Octahedron and Noctourniquet is great, and none of it is really like the style they set out in the beginning, but most of those aldums are good to really smurfing great.