The Mars Volta Announce First Official Live Album Since 2005, ‘Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business’

The Mars Volta will release their first official live record in nearly two decades. Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business arrives September 4 in digital form, with a physical edition following on October 16. It is their only sanctioned concert document since 2005’s Scabdates.

The set revisits the band’s recent studio album, Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacío, in its entirety. But the final shape of the release was not decided solely by the group. An interactive campaign let fans vote on which recordings from the 2025 tour would make the tracklist, turning the album into a selective document of the road rather than a single captured night.

A preview track, “Cue the Sun / Alba Del Orate,” shows how the material shifts outside the studio. The song’s starry-eyed psych foundation remains, but live it hardens: noise-guitar snarls, the rhythm section pushes outward, and the vocal sits low in the mix as synths and drums abstract the original into harsher, more evocative shapes.

The announcement lands as the band prepares for a US tour in September, including a date supporting My Chemical Romance and an appearance at Louder Than Life. The full tracklist and tour routing are available now, alongside pre-orders for the live album.