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De-Loused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta · 2003

• Scores: Noise 3, Unease 3, Complexity 4 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Rock, Prog rock, Psych rock
• Mood: frantic, cinematic, psychedelic
• Sound: odd time signatures, suites, extended jams, Latin rhythms

The Mars Volta recorded this in 2002 and 2003 at Rick Rubin's studio, The Mansion, after abandoning an earlier set of sessions made with different personnel. Rubin and Omar Rodríguez-López produced, with Flea playing bass on most tracks through a 1964 Fender Precision. Rodríguez-López often doubled a dry guitar part with a heavily effected one, panned hard left and right, and tracked through small Supro and Fender amps. It is a concept album inspired by the life and death of the band's friend Julio Venegas, with SF Sorrow and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway as models.

Track list

1. Son et lumière (1:35)
2. Inertiatic ESP (4:24)
3. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) (7:31)
4. Tira me a las arañas (1:28)
5. Drunkship of Lanterns (7:06)
6. Eriatarka (6:20)
7. Cicatriz ESP (12:29)
8. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed (4:58)
9. Televators (6:19)
10. Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt (8:42)