With a North American tour imminent, The Mars Volta also have a new live album on the way in Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business, while the first single taken from the record, ‘Cue The Sun / Alba del Orate’, is now available on all streaming platforms.
Their first official live release since 2005’s Scabdates, the new album is said to be a deep reinterpretation of its source material, with an added twist: the band’s invitation for fans to directly participate in the album-making process, offering them access to live recordings captured during their 2025 tour.
This initiative originally began with a cryptic countdown clock hosted on a standalone website. Upon its conclusion on 9th June, the band unveiled an interactive digital experience featuring audio previews from multiple live recordings and a voting mechanism that allows fans to choose which specific performances make the final cut for the album.
In classic Mars Volta fashion, each track is represented by a symbolic visual marker tied to the city where it was captured, a rollout that reflects the band’s continued embrace of unconventional, immersive release strategies while expanding the creative universe surrounding Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacío.
The forthcoming live album documents exactly how the new material evolved on stage, while highlighting the band’s renowned live intensity, improvisational spirit, and ever-expanding approach to performance.
Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business will be available across three configurations. Physical collectors can choose between a special edition CD Digipak or a limited edition 2LP vinyl set, both released on 16th October, while the digital album, enhanced with Dolby Atmos spatial audio, launches on all major streaming platforms on 4th September. It is available to pre-order now.
