THE MARS VOLTA · De-Loused in The Comatorium | CD

Jewelcase CD with 12 page booklet.

Background information about 'De-Loused in The Comatorium'

The Mars Volta didn't just make a debut record — they detonated one. "De-Loused in The Comatorium" is the sound of two restless minds, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, taking the wreckage of At the Drive-In and rebuilding it into something far more unhinged, ambitious, and gloriously strange. This is prog rock shot through a punk's nervous system, where salsa rhythms collide with free-jazz horn stabs, dub basslines, and falsetto howls that seem to come from another dimension altogether.

The record plays like a fever dream, loosely tracing the final, hallucinatory hours of a coma patient named Cerpin Taxt. But you don't need the concept to feel it — the music does all the storytelling. From the eerie, tape-warped opener "Son Et Lumière" that collapses straight into the pummeling "Inertiatic ESP", to the sprawling, ten-minute-plus epic "Cicatriz ESP" that drifts into ambient noise before snapping back to life, this is an album that refuses to sit still. Rick Rubin's production keeps the chaos razor-sharp, letting every frantic time signature and Flea's liquid basslines breathe. And then there's "Televators", a haunting, slow-burning lament that proves these guys could break your heart just as easily as they could melt your face. Nearly two decades on, "De-Loused in The Comatorium" still sounds like the future arriving early — a masterpiece of controlled chaos that redefined what a rock band could be.

For fans of:
At the Drive-In, King Crimson, Tool, The Blood Brothers, Omar Rodríguez-López, Sparta

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Track listing

1. Son Et Lumiere
2. Inertiatic Esp
3. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
4. Tira Me A Las Aranas
5. Drunkship Of Lanterns
6. Eriatarka
7. Cicatriz Esp
8. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
9. Televators
10. Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt

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