As The Mars Volta fans know, the brilliance of the music on “The Bedlam in Goliath” was almost overshadowed by the tale of the album’s creation.
The short story is that lead guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez bought a Ouija board at a trinket shop in Jerusalem and was compelled by its negative powers to write the music that became the group’s fourth album “The Bedlam in Goliath.”
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