De-Loused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

De-Loused in the Comatorium
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Artist: The Mars Volta
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-06-24
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
  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. The Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
  9. Televators
  10. Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt

Free Music Notes for De-Loused in the Comatorium

Free Music Review: TMV at their most restrained
Hit: 5 Stars

I think the success of this album is due to its seemless transition from ATDI to what is to come later. There is little that you can fault this album with. It definitely stands out from the rest of TMV's albums due to the tight and slick production. There is nothing wrong with that, but this album only hints at the grand experimentation that is to come. The dueling guitars in Cicatriz ESP alone are worth the price of admission. Everything else is just icing on the cake. If you can survive this album, there is hope for you yet...

De-Loused in the Comatorium Poster

On De-loused in the Comatorium, the Mars Volta approach rock & roll like it's an ascetic discipline, a calling that comes with lyric sheets as dense and impenetrable as the Kabbalah and a ritual of worship that's dervish-like in its intensity. Formed by vocalist Cedric Bixler and guitarist Omar Rodriguez after the split of their former band--Texan hardcore legends At the Drive-In, who splintered acrimoniously in 2001--the Volta are an unashamedly progressive outfit, dealing in grandiose arrangements that come on like Led Zeppelin fired through Saturn's rings.

You can still hear many of ATDI's hallmarks inside the spasmodic dynamics of "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" and "Eriatarka"--it's just now they're immeasurably more complex, governed by time signatures responsible only to some alien logic, and cast out on ever more remote waves of mind-bending conceptual fantasy.

Bixler's serrated howl has mellowed somewhat, veering here from tender croon to shrill falsetto. And interestingly, Flea guests here, although you wouldn't know it: his brooding basslines bear nothing of the slap-happy funk he displays in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. But ironically, the most startling contribution comes from the band's late sound manipulator Jeremy Ward, who passed away after a heroin overdose on the eve of this album's release. His dubby ambient fills unfurl in the valleys between each jagged instrumental peak, lending a truly otherworldly feel to proceedings. A morbid legacy, but thankfully, far from this album's only selling point: De-loused in the Comatorium is the rare prog-rock landmark that prizes punk passion over meandering pretension. -- Louis Pattison

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