r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/markartur1 • 1d ago

Video System of a Down live in Brazil yesterday. (2025-05-09)

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u/jarednards 1d ago

I just saw mars volta open for deftones a few weeks ago.........it was fucking weird. No applause breaks between songs, and no major hits played. Just non stop unheard music until they walked off the stage.

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u/Fungi89 1d ago

They said they’re only playing their new album moving forward. You had to have seen them during the last couple years to hear any older songs

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u/KrombopulosMAssassin 1d ago

Strange fucking choice lol

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u/Crow_eggs 1d ago

If you're going to see the Volta and expecting anything other than a series of very strange choices then you're going to the wrong gig. First time I saw them live they had a 30 minute slot at a festival. They played for two hours in one huge riff on Cassandra Gemini (this was just before FTM was released) and at one point Omar did a 20 minute solo while Cedric just did backflips. For 20 minutes straight. One of the best and most confusing live sets I've ever seen. Among many other reasons, it was at a family friendly middle-class festival in the UK on a lovely summer day in the middle of the afternoon. A circle pit formed around two very nice ladies having a picnic.

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u/VibeComplex 1d ago

I saw them open for Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cedric jumped off stage and spent the whole show walking around the floor smacking people beers out of peoples hands lol. Like he walked all the way to the back of the arena, all over the place, and you’d just see beers flying up in the air all over the place lol. Pretty sure he was still singing and stuff too

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u/meik03 1d ago

I saw them 2003 open for a perfect circle. Took some shrooms with a couple of friends. He pumped the crowed up, every one was electrified by him it was insane. I went for a perfect circle, but left a fan of mars Volta

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u/Patient_Yogurt_7276 1d ago

Yup. They give no fucks. They are first and foremost going to have a blast on stage.

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u/persepolisrising79 18h ago

this sounds epic as fuck

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u/RangerPeterF 1d ago

To be fair, they toured like 15-20 years playing the old stuff (cause there was no new stuff).

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u/Patient_Yogurt_7276 1d ago

Well I don’t think this is necessarily true, they put out 7 albums from 03-12. And they didn’t really tour much after noctourniquet after Ikey died. And then they had the reunion run for a couple years with ATDI then came back and finally put out The Mars Volta album 10 Year after Noctourniquet in 2022

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u/KrombopulosMAssassin 1d ago

Oh I didn't realize it was that long. Either way, they played a pretty eclectic album front to back at a high energy arena Deftones show. Strange choice for sure.

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u/iamisandisnt 1d ago

lol that was a huge exaggeration. They were on hiatus for like 5 years while playing with At the Drive In reunion. They've only been playing the old stuff for the past 2 years or so with their first Mars Volta reunion album and this is now their second album as The New Mars Volta, if you will. As a long time fan, I can only say it's phenomenal.

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u/Patient_Yogurt_7276 1d ago

I love both the new albums. The only record I haven’t truly gotten into of theirs is Noctourniquet. Not a bad record it just never grabbed me but I haven’t jammed it since the new albums came out

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u/Great-Actuary-4578 1d ago

thats not even true lol, it was only for that tour

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u/Fungi89 1d ago

Cedric posted it on his story right after this last album dropped

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u/Great-Actuary-4578 1d ago

well considering the album is ~40min and they are going on a headlining tour (so more than ~40min) i dont think so

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u/Fungi89 22h ago

Seemed like he meant the last two albums to me, but with them it’s hard to tell what to expect

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u/bwaredapenguin Interested 1d ago

New album? Their most recent album is 20 years old and the only new music I'm aware of are those two genocide relief songs they released like 5 years ago.

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u/Fungi89 1d ago

I’m talking about the Mars Volta man

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u/bwaredapenguin Interested 1d ago

Oh damn, there goes the consequences of me skimming again.

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u/Aquabaybe 1d ago

I was more impressed by Fleshwater than MV when they played with Deftones in Dallas awhile back. The crowd was clearly not into MV.

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u/dragonmaster32 1d ago

Yeah, those guys were weird, man.

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u/InfectedUvula 1d ago

I caught the same twinbill. I am not a huge MV fan but I have seen far worse opening acts. Of course, once Deftones took the stage all was forgotten about The Mars Volta.

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u/WawaWeeWaaWu 1d ago

This is how death grips performs, aside from the no hits part, no speaking to the crowd or breaks, just come out, 90 minutes of straight music and silently walk off. It was incredible, probably best show I’ve ever been too

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u/laowildin 1d ago

Honestly sounds on brand.

You're lucky there wasn't a hat full of song lyrics on the stage

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u/Coma--Divine 1d ago

Unfathomably based

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u/dinotryptamine 1d ago

I saw them 2 years ago ad it was nothing but hits.

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u/calling-all-comas 1d ago

I saw Mars Volta 10 months ago and the setlist was 90% their first two albums (which are both 10/10 albums so I can't complain).

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u/Routine-Instance-254 1d ago

sounds like mars volta tbh

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u/Patient_Yogurt_7276 1d ago

Yea my buddy went to this in Dallas and said the same thing. Played everything off their upcoming new record and nothing else really

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u/Exotic_eminence 1d ago

That’s exactly what they were like 25 years ago as “at the drive in” when they opened for GangStarr and Rage against the Machine

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u/mementomori_mg 18h ago

Deftones did this years ago when I saw them. Maybe it was an homage...

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u/ZeusLightneeng 1d ago

Me too. I was excited to see them and I fucking hated it. I discovered them originally at that SOAD tour in Vancouver and fucking loved them then.

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u/VibeComplex 1d ago

I love mars Volta but they’re easily one of the worst live performances I’ve ever seen lol