Let's make this birthday one to remember.

49 years old (Born on September 01, 1975)

Happy birthday, Omar Rodriguez Lopez! May your day be filled with more electrifying riffs than a Mars Volta encore and crazier adventures than an At the Drive-In stage dive. Your guitar solos have melted faces worldwide—seriously, we're still recovering from "Inertiatic ESP."

From redefining progressive rock to pushing musical boundaries into galaxies unknown, you've given us countless unforgettable moments (and probably confused some neighbors along the way). Here's hoping this year brings you even greater success—and maybe fewer tangled cables onstage. Keep shredding through life like only you can; after all these years you're still our favorite sonic wizard!