There is a well worth reading updated Bio as well.
The site also includes an extensive collection of articles from other sources on the band.the mars volta's frances the mute is not a "sequel" to 2003's de-loused in the comatorium. yes it builds a story around the memory of a dear departed friend--but the similarities end there. where de-loused... was a finite sci-fi narrative that took place entirerly in an imaginary universe created for the story (and rich with vocabulary peculiar to the story at hand created by bixler-zavala), frances... transpires in the real world, inspired by a diary found by late bandmate jeremy ward (r.i.p.) and the similarity of the anonymous author's life to his own.
