With a brand new album, Octahedron, released this week, Californian psych rockers the Mars Volta have scoffed rumours that they’re looking to reunite with their former band members of the seminal El Paso, Texas outfit, At The Drive In.

According to Mars Volta songwriters Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, while the duo are happy the bad blood has lifted, there’s no plans to hit the stage together again.

“[The reunion rumours surfaced when] we took time to bury the hatchet with the other members,” vocalist Bixler-Zavala explained on the weekend. “There had been a lot of shit talk, at least on my behalf, and I had stuff that I wanted to say. I wanted to be friends with the guys again.’ [A reunion] couldn’t happen any time soon because we have so much Mars Volta material.”

“The thing with At the Drive In was the excitement of the first time,” continued guitarist Rodríguez-López. “Like the first girlfriend or sexual experience, you can never recreate that moment. You can have other amazing highs and learn all sort of things, but there is nothing like the first time when you don’t know what the fuck is going on. There’s nothing like the first time coming to Europe, nothing like the first time being on tour, or putting out a record. The first time smoking crack.”

The first single from Octahedron is “Cotopaxi”.