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June 15th, 2009
They said it would never happen, but it looks as though beloved post-hardcore favourites At the Drive-In could be on the reunion trail. Although core members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López are just about to release the fifth Mars Volta album, Octahedron, on June 23, in a recent interview with Drowned in Sound, frontman Bixler spoke the words everyone has been waiting eight long years to hear.
When asked about the possibility of a reunion, Bixler responded, “I don’t know what to say about that really. We’ve been making amends with a lot of the members and having some really good talks with them. And we’ve been trying to get our financial business in order because a lot of people have been ripping off that band really badly… as far as the business side goes. I wouldn’t mind it.”
Once hailed as the “next Nirvana,” At the Drive-In famously packed it in back in 2001 while they were just about to explode with their album, Relationship of Command. Instead, they imploded thanks to a combination of “excessive hype, relentless touring, artistic differences, and Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala’s drug habits.” Bixler and Rodriguez bailed and formed noodly, experimental prog rock collective the Mars Volta, while the remaining members - Jim Ward, Paul Hinojos and Tony Hajjar - went on to form their own band, the more ATDI-inspired Sparta.
According to Bixler, it sounds like the wounds have been mended. “Y’know, it might happen, we just have to iron out a lot of personal things,” he said. “A lot of it we’ve dealt with already and I’ve apologized for a lot of things I’ve said and the way it ended… we’ll see what happens.”
Tags: at the drive-in
Posted on Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 3:41 pm by Cam and is filed under News.
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