News: 'Curse' Can't Quash New Mars Volta Album

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The Mars Volta almost decided to put the kibosh on the forthcoming "The Bedlam in Goliath," due Jan. 29 via Universal, because of a curse. Yes, a curse. Starting at the tail end of the tour in support of the album "Amputechture," the Mars Volta members claim they became haunted by the spirit awakened from a Ouija board guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez bought in Jerusalem. The studio got flooded twice, equipment was ruined, tracks disappeared and a longtime engineer left the project because of -- and amidst -- the mania. According to the band, the board -- or the Soothsayer, as they...