# Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio
**Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio** (Spanish for "Dirty Profit; The Eyes of the Void") is the ninth studio album by the American progressive rock band [The Mars Volta](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-mars-volta), released on April 11, 2025 through the German label Clouds Hill.[1](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) • [2](https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) It is the band's third album since their 2022 reunion, following the self-titled *The Mars Volta* (2022) and *Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon* (2023).[1](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) • [3](https://www.allmusic.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio-mw0004488202)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Artist / album | The Mars Volta, ninth studio album, third since the 2022 reunion[1](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) |
| Released | April 11, 2025, Clouds Hill (catalog numbers CH404, LC19061)[1](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) • [4](https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/0eHXKWp81IW9Hv9pAvuEty) |
| Length / tracks | 18 tracks, about 49 minutes[4](https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/0eHXKWp81IW9Hv9pAvuEty) |
| Core duo | Omar Rodríguez-López (guitar, production, synths) and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (lyrics, vocals)[5](https://www.themarbleshrine.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/) |
| Sound | Atmospheric, moody blend of the band's signature style with jazz and electronica influences[1](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) |
| Artwork | By Adán Guevara[1](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) |
| Follow-up | *Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business*, a fan-voted live album drawn from the 2025 tour, the band's first official live release since *Scabdates* (2005)[6](https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-mars-volta-announce-lucro-sucio-unfinished-business-their-first-live-album-in-over-twenty-years) |
## Background and release
[Omar Rodríguez-López](https://www.edgepedia.org/omar-rodriguez-lopez) and [Cedric Bixler-Zavala](https://www.edgepedia.org/cedric-bixler-zavala) have led The Mars Volta since its 2003 debut *De-Loused in the Comatorium*, and the Bandcamp release notes describe their collaboration as nearly 30 years of continuous musical evolution.[7](https://themarsvoltaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) After a decade-long hiatus, the 2022 reunion album and its 2023 acoustic reinterpretation introduced shorter song structures and more Spanish-language material than the band's earlier records.[2](https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio)
**Unconventional rollout.** The album reached the public before the band announced it. It was listed for pre-order on a few European vendor websites in late January and early February 2025, and an audio file purporting to be the album leaked from Reddit; per the Marble Shrine fan archive, this was the first time a Mars Volta album had leaked before being announced to the general public.[5](https://www.themarbleshrine.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/) Neither Clouds Hill nor the band publicly commented on the leak, and Bixler-Zavala, when approached about it on Instagram, presented himself as unaware while making puns, though he gave a fan a personal CD-R copy of the record.[5](https://www.themarbleshrine.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/) A Houston magazine account adds that the label finally acknowledged the album's existence just four days before its official streaming release.[8](https://s3.amazonaws.com/pageturnpro2.com/Publications/202509/5245/112830/PDF/134037315520473935_MNOctober2025.pdf) The band also debuted the album live in full while supporting Deftones at [Portland, Oregon](https://www.edgepedia.org/portland-oregon)'s Moda Center on February 25, 2025.[2](https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio)
The album was issued on digital, CD, and double vinyl formats; the Bandcamp digital download is offered in 24-bit/96kHz quality.[7](https://themarsvoltaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio)
## Music and structure
The record runs about 49 minutes across 18 tracks, most of them short by the band's historical standards; the longest is the 5:44 closing title track, and several pieces run under two minutes.[4](https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/0eHXKWp81IW9Hv9pAvuEty) The label describes it as an atmospheric and moody release on which Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala revisit their roots while continuing to reinvent themselves, blending their signature sound with jazz and electronica influences.[1](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio)
Reviewers emphasized the album's continuous, texture-driven flow. The Progressive Subway described it as sitting closer to Radiohead's *Kid A* than to the band's post-hardcore past, with touches of Latin jazz, electro-industrial, and ambient electronics, and noted that the tracks consolidate into a free-flowing singular piece moved along by interstitial segues rather than verse-chorus structures.[9](https://theprogressivesubway.com/2025/04/18/review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/) [The Italian](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-italian) site OndaRock highlighted "Alba del orate" as the track that best sums up the metamorphosis, an old identity resurfacing in a new musical shape with the guitar, nearly absent elsewhere, returning in distorted tones against detuned synths.[10](https://ondarock.com/reviews/2025-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/) Apple Music's editorial summary calls it "ethereal jazz" floating over the band's "constantly shifting" ninth album.[11](https://music.apple.com/us/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/1804740901)
## Personnel
Credits listed by the Marble Shrine include Omar Rodríguez-López on guitar, production, synths, and backing vocals; Cedric Bixler-Zavala on lyrics and vocals; Marcel Rodríguez-López on synths, mixing, and engineering; Eva Gardner and Josh Moreau on bass; [Linda-Philomène Tsoungui](https://www.edgepedia.org/linda-philomene-tsoungui) and [Willy Rodriguez Quiñones](https://www.edgepedia.org/willy-rodriguez) on drums; Leo Genovese on keys and horns; Daniel Diaz Rivera on percussion; and engineers Chris Common and Jon Debaun.[5](https://www.themarbleshrine.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/)
## Reception
Critical response was divided. Kerrang! gave the album 2/5, with reviewer Sam Law writing that it "topple[s] over the line into arty indulgence and irksome jazz," while acknowledging moments of beauty such as the vocals in the latter half of "Mictlán" and the "hip-swivelling sexiness" of "Vociferó."[2](https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio) The Progressive Subway scored it 7.5/10, calling it a successful and artistically whole experiment despite struggles with memorability.[9](https://theprogressivesubway.com/2025/04/18/review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/) Norman Records UK aggregated three reviews at 9/10.[12](https://www.normanrecords.com/records/208152-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del) OndaRock judged that the album's blend of enveloping electronics and progressive mazes brought something genuinely new to the band's catalog, while calling it a record "with more ideas than certainties."[10](https://ondarock.com/reviews/2025-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/)
## Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business
In 2026 the band announced *Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business*, its first official live release since 2005's *Scabdates*. Far from a straightforward live recording of the studio album, it is a deep reinterpretation of the original material, with a tracklist chosen by fans through an interactive voting mechanism covering performances from the band's 2025 fall tour; each song was represented by a cryptic symbol corresponding to the city where it was recorded. The lead single was "Cue the Sun / Alba del Orate."[6](https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-mars-volta-announce-lucro-sucio-unfinished-business-their-first-live-album-in-over-twenty-years) • [13](https://store.sonymusic.es/blogs/news/the-mars-volta-publican-nuevo-album-en-directo)
## References
1. [Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio, Clouds Hill release page](https://www.cloudshill.com/releases/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio)
2. [Album review: The Mars Volta – Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio, Kerrang! (Sam Law, April 11, 2025)](https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio)
3. [Lucro Sucio Los Ojos del Vacio, AllMusic](https://www.allmusic.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio-mw0004488202)
4. [Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio, Spotify album page](https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/0eHXKWp81IW9Hv9pAvuEty)
5. [Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio, The Marble Shrine](https://www.themarbleshrine.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/)
6. [The Mars Volta announce Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business, their first live album in over twenty years, Louder](https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-mars-volta-announce-lucro-sucio-unfinished-business-their-first-live-album-in-over-twenty-years)
7. [Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio, The Mars Volta official Bandcamp](https://themarsvoltaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio)
8. [Houston magazine, October 2025 issue (Mars Volta Houston show preview)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/pageturnpro2.com/Publications/202509/5245/112830/PDF/134037315520473935_MNOctober2025.pdf)
9. [Review: The Mars Volta – Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacío, The Progressive Subway (April 18, 2025)](https://theprogressivesubway.com/2025/04/18/review-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/)
10. [Mars Volta – Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacío: The maze has turned liquid, OndaRock (April 20, 2025)](https://ondarock.com/reviews/2025-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/)
11. [Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del-vacio/1804740901)
12. [The Mars Volta – Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio, Norman Records UK](https://www.normanrecords.com/records/208152-the-mars-volta-lucro-sucio-los-ojos-del)
13. [THE MARS VOLTA publican nuevo álbum en directo, Sony Music Store](https://store.sonymusic.es/blogs/news/the-mars-volta-publican-nuevo-album-en-directo)
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