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Mars Volta get special guest star on new album

Mars Volta

Mars Volta

It's a Red Hot Chili Pepper...

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante will guest on the new album by his pals The Mars Volta.

The star appears on ’Amputechture’, will the follow-up to 2005’s ’Frances The Mute’.

Frusciante is repaying a favour to his pals - Omar Rodriguez appears on the track 'Especially In Michigan' from Red Hot Chili Peppers' current album 'Stadium Arcadium'.

The band have announced that the artist Jeff Jordan will be designing the cover.

The tracklisting for the album is:

'Vicarious Atonement'
'Tetragrammaton'
'Vermicide'
'Meccamputechture'
'Asilos Magdalena'
'Viscera Eyes'
'Day Of The Baphomets'
'El Ciervo Vulnerado'



A release date has yet to be announced.

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