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

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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird has been released, showing glimpses of the friendship behind the bands The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In.

Watch it below.The clip, issued yesterday (October 31) by Oscilloscope Laboratories, comprises a montage of archival footage from the vault of Mars Volta co-founder and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, with narration about his close and prolific – though stormy – relationship over the decades with Cedric Bixler-Zavala.“I’m glad that God has put us in the same place and the same time,” he says. “At least this time, I guess.” Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird is set for theatrical release in the US on November 20.The official description for the film reads: “A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), told almost entirely through hundreds of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years.”The Texas-formed band released six studio albums between 2003 and 2012 before splitting due to a falling-out between founding members Bixler-Zavala and Rodríguez-López.

In the years that followed, the pair formed new group Antemasque and resurrected At the Drive-In for a new record in 2017.“I spent hours on the phone with Omar Rodríguez-López in February 2020.

He told me the story of his and Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s life together. It blew my mind,” Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird director Nicolas Jack Davies says in a press statement.“Before the end of that month I flew to meet Omar in Puerto Rico where we chatted for another day and my excitement to bring to life such a story as a film grew exponentially.”The decision to return to The.