The Mars Volta / On the Drive-In documentary, Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre, is now accessible to hire or purchase by way of Amazon Prime, amongst different digital platforms. A bodily launch on DVD and Blu-Ray is coming February twenty fifth.
The Nicolas Jack Davies-directed doc premiered on the Raindance Movie Pageant in October 2023, later receiving a theatrical launch in late November 2024. It was then awarded Finest Music Documentary on the 2024 IDA Awards in December.
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The movie follows the musical journey of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala with a fly-on-the-wall stage of entry, from their early days slicing their enamel in El Paso’s hardcore scene with On the Drive-In, to their legacy-defining work with The Mars Volta, together with their private fallout and reconnection.
Over the course of a number of a long time, Rodríguez-López shot 100s of hours of footage documenting On the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, and far of the doc is compiled from these residence motion pictures, together with interviews with Omar and Cedric and reside live performance clips.
“We perceive folks can have direct questions for us, however we simply level them to Nick’s movie which holds the entire solutions,” Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala advised Rolling Stone relating to the doc. “These solutions are given extra exactly and elegantly within the movie than we might ever put into phrases. We invite the world to look at and attain their very own conclusions.”
In the meantime, the bodily launch of the documentary aligns with the February twenty fifth kickoff of the Mars Volta’s North American tour supporting Deftones (get tickets right here). The 26-show outing runs by way of April ninth in Newark, New Jersey.
Revisit the trailer for Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre under.