My best concert: The Mars Volta (2023)
On May 30 of this year, the Texan-Puerto Rican band The Mars Volta performed in Chile, at the Movistar Arena, for the first time alone. In 2010 he had presented himself with another musical project with Latin roots: Rage Against the Machine. The Mars volta are a band composed of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedrix Bixler-Zavala, eclectic and hermetic by nature, difficult to classify into a single genre, aesthetic trend or particular style. Their songs and albums deal with cryptic, paranormal and psychedelic themes. They have become famous as a "cursed band" for having composed songs with a Ouija board brought from Jerusalem, translating poems from the Aramaic that the artifact contained and including them in their songs. This invoked spirit, called Goliath, is blamed for the death of his prodigious drummer a few years later, the suspension of multiple concerts due to strange electrical failures, the fall of the lighting scaffolding at a show, among other events that are difficu