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 JediMobius favorited and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 Take the Veil Cerpintax is probably the best 9 minute song in existence. Even though I heard Frances the Mute first, De-Loused is easily my favorite album (I'm somehow missing Bedlam in Goliath, but... more
 
 Take the Veil Cerpintax is probably the best 9 minute song in existence. Even though I heard Frances the Mute first, De-Loused is easily my favorite album (I'm somehow missing Bedlam in Goliath, but still. Also, that may or may not have a lot to do with the high note in Televators I'm guessing Cedric doesn't have enough estrogen to hit anymore) and perhaps their best anyway?
 
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 Lisa favorited and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 Most amazing album I have ever heard.
 
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 James Martin Buettler reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 This debut album of The Mars Volta has been claimed by many to be there best album out to date, and with good reason. Cedric Bixler-Zavala's vocals are something that many had yet to hear out of a... more
 
 This debut album of The Mars Volta has been claimed by many to be there best album out to date, and with good reason. Cedric Bixler-Zavala's vocals are something that many had yet to hear out of a band, and Omar Rodríguez-López's guitar work had a tight unique sound, which grabbed the attention of many. Their experimental style, which includes odd time signatures, intense sound manipulation, and an amalgamation of styles really break through in this debut produced by Rick Rubin, and is perhaps the crowning achievement in this band's history
 
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 Dakota favorited and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 First album I ever heard by TMV. Blew me away. This album is such an insanely intricate story it blows my mind.
 
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 T. Howell-Cintron liked and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 Heard this album for the first time at a party and a local band's crib and despite my drunken state it was amazing, so I asked around, found out who it was, and snagged me a copy right-quick. Best... more
 
 Heard this album for the first time at a party and a local band's crib and despite my drunken state it was amazing, so I asked around, found out who it was, and snagged me a copy right-quick. Best buy I've made in a long time. Infinitely listenable.
 
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 Neno Yamamoto favorited and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 The best album ever!!
 
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 Tomas Garcia favorited and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 Hace mucho que no escucho esta obra maestra.
 
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 Fernando Valverde favorited and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 Five Stars to this great Album !
 
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 Scott Hurford favorited and reviewed De-Loused in the Comatorium
 
 pure bliss on one disc!
 
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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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