*The Mars Volta performs at Shaky Knees at Central Park on May 06, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)*
The Mars Volta US Tour 2026 is officially on — and for fans who spent last year watching the band perform Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacío front to back, this run is a different proposition entirely. The September 2026 dates will see Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala drawing from more than two decades of material, making this the first career-spanning tour since their 2022 reunion.
The run opens September 8 at the Majestic Ventura Theater in Ventura, California, and works its way east over ten days. Here are all confirmed dates:
Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. General on-sale opens Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Full ticket information is available at TheMarsVoltaOfficial.com.
Last year’s touring cycle was built around a single concept: perform Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacío in its entirety, every night. The band did exactly that — first opening for Deftones on their spring arena run, then headlining their own fall North American dates. The approach was consistent with how The Mars Volta has always operated: uncompromising, focused, indifferent to casual expectations.
The 2026 tour drops that format entirely. Fans who showed up in 2025 hoping to hear Roulette Dares or L’Via L’Viaquez went home without them. This September, that changes. The full catalog — including landmark albums De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003) and Frances the Mute (2005) — is back in play.
Beyond the headlining dates, the band has two additional commitments this fall. The September 12 appearance at the Alamodome in San Antonio places them on the same bill as My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade 2026 tour — a stadium-scale show that will put The Mars Volta in front of a significantly larger audience than their typical club and theater circuit. The September 20 festival slot at Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky, rounds out the run.
Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacío, released April 11, 2025, on Clouds Hill Recordings, is the band’s ninth studio album and their third since the 2022 reunion. Its rollout was characteristically unconventional: no press cycle, no advance singles, no formal announcement. The band simply began playing it live during the Deftones tour before the label acknowledged its existence. Bixler-Zavala reportedly handed a burned CD copy to a food delivery worker at a hotel — one of the more unusual album rollout moments in recent memory.
The album continued what the reunion had started: music that prioritized the band’s present over their past. That made the 2025 tour a statement. The 2026 dates, pulling from the full discography, suggest the band is now comfortable holding both at once.
Formed in 2001 by Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala after the breakup of El Paso post-hardcore band At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta built a reputation on records that demanded full attention and live shows that ran without fixed setlists. De-Loused in the Comatorium, produced by Rick Rubin and featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Flea on bass and John Frusciante on guitar, established the template. Frances the Mute followed in 2005 and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. A Grammy win for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2009 — for “Wax Simulacra” — confirmed their mainstream reach without softening the edges.
The band entered a decade-long hiatus after 2012’s Noctourniquet, formally breaking up in January 2013. When they returned in 2022 with a self-titled album and sold-out reunion tour, the reception confirmed that the audience had stayed patient.
The September run is limited — nine dates across eight cities. If more shows are announced, this page will be updated.
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