On January 29, 2008, “Gold Standard Laboratories” and “Universal Motown Records” labels released “The Bedlam in Goliath”, the fourth Mars Volta studio album. It was recorded 2006 – 2007, at “Ocean Way Recording” in Hollywood, Rodriguez-Lopez’s home studio in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Omar Rodríguez-López.

Personnel:

• Omar Rodríguez-López – guitar, synthesizers
• Cedric Bixler-Zavala – vocals
• Isaiah Ikey Owens – keyboards
• Juan Alderete – bass
• Thomas Pridgen – drums
• John Frusciante – guitar
• Owen Levine – double bass
• Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez – percussion, keyboards
• Adrián Terrazas-González – flute, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion
• Paul Hinojos – sound manipulation
• Henry Trejo – “Because”s on “Agadez”
• Nathaniel Tookey – string composition and arrangement
• Edwin Outwater – strings conductor
• Sam Bass – cello
• Edwin Huizinga – violin
• Anthony Blea – violin
• Charith Premawardhana – viola

Track listing:

All lyrics Cedric Bixler-Zavala, all music by Omar Rodríguez-López.

1. Aberinkula
2. Metatron
3. Hyena
4. Wax Simulacra
5. Tourniquet Man
6. Cavalettas
7. Agadez
8. Askepios
9. Ouroboros
10. Soothsayer
11. Conjugal Burns