After teasing new music with a cube in LA's Grand Park, The Mars Volta have released their first new song in ten years, "Blacklight Shine," along with a music video directed by guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López. The actual song is only three minutes, and it finds The Mars Volta putting a soulful twist on their usual Latin psych, but it comes with an 11-minute video featuring dancing and traditional hand drumming/chants. Check it out below.
The Mars Volta's last album was 2012's Noctourniquet, and the band called it quits that same year. In the time since then, Cedric and Omar reunited At the Drive In and released the new album in•ter a•li•a in 2017, before putting that band to rest once again in 2018. Last year, The Mars Volta put out an 18-LP box set with previously unreleased material.