The Mars Volta Picks At the "Scab" On November 8th

The Mars Volta will finally document its 2-hour-plus live experience with a full-length live album titled scabdates due out November 8 on GSL/Universal Records. scabdates will feature renditions of Volta tracks recorded live over the course of 2003-2005 touring in support of this year's Frances The Mute and 2003's De-Loused In The Comatorium, drawn out to their epic, endurance-defying lengths, making for a 74-minute sampling of the Mars Volta live experience, with packaging featuring the photography of longtime Volta collaborator Danielle Van Ark.

For those who will not be satisfied with an auditory artifact, The Mars Volta will be on tour with System Of A Down until that tour's Oct. 11 finale' at Fresno CA's Savemart Arena. Following that, the band will play one final North American headline date, Oct. 14 at the Santa Barbara County Bowl. The band's touring year will be rounded out by an already sold out headlining/curatorial appearance at the All Tomorrow's Parties Nightmare Before Christmas event taking place at the UK's Camber Sands Holiday Camp Dec. 2-4. scabdates was assembled, produced and mixed by Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez.

The track listing for scabdates is as follows:

01. abrasions mount the timpani

02. take the veil cerpin taxt

03. a) gust of mutts

04. b) and ghosted pouts

05. caviglia

06. concertina

07. haruspex

08 cicatriz

09. a) pt I

10. b) pt II

11. c) pt III

12. d) pt IV