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product_id: 48087617
title: "De-loused in the Comatorium"
brand: "the mars volta"
price: "KSh6994"
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reviews_count: 8
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# De-loused in the Comatorium

**Brand:** the mars volta
**Price:** KSh6994
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- **What is this?** De-loused in the Comatorium by the mars volta
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## Description

Product Description               UK edition of 2003 debut album includes the bonus track 'Ambuletz'. Universal.                  .co.uk               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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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My mum likes this.
*by A***N on 29 November 2009*

As a lover of prog/jazz/metal/fusion rock, The Mars Volta are right up my street. I had occasion to visit my 80 year old mum & happened to have Deloused In The Comatorium with me. "Ooh, what's that?" she asked, put it on. So I did. When the CD had finished I asked her what she thought. "Well," she said. " That's a beautiful CD, though the songs are highly complex & the time signatures are at times bewildering, you can tap your feet to it." " That'll be your Parkinsons mum", I replied. "Yes, but it seems less angular in structure than later CDs like Bedlam In Goliath & more cohesive as a whole than Aputechture. Cedric Bixler-Zafala's singing is less frantic, gentler even in spite of it being obscure lyrically & Omar Rodriguez-Lopez certainly knows how to handle a guitar. It says in the little book that Flea plays bass on it & that other man from the Chilli Peppers, now I like those........are you going already? Next time bring Frances The Mute!".Nothing more to add, mum. See you!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Never heard them before, now bought all of their albums
*by C***W on 14 September 2009*

I heard of The Mars Volta ages ago and had heard a couple of tracks but didnt think that much of them... for some reason recently I decided to buy this album as I remembered vaguely liking one song off it. Now I am hooked, this is the best album I have bought for a while and I have just ordered the rest of their albums (dont you love it when a band you have just got into have got loads of albums!)The 30 second previews on here do not do the songs justice at all and you really have to hear a couple of the stand out tracks all the way through a couple of times to see how great they are.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A trippy, psychedelic 1970's-esque rock concept album, released in the 2000's.
*by B***1 on 24 May 2016*

The two singles 'Inertiatic ESP' and 'Televators' are the only two tracks that are anything close to your traditional 'single' and even that's pushing it! Like many concept albums, it's best to listen to the album as a whole to really appreciate the music and the songs, isolate the tracks, and while they're still excellent, they do tend to suffer without continuity from their neighbouring songs.'Cicatriz ESP' is a glaring example of this, as it fits well enough into the mix, on its own...it's pretty dull and much too long - especially its long, drawn out outro.If you already have this album and are buying for the bonus track 'Ambuletz' - don't bother - it's TERRIBLE! It's basically a dull instrumental with some wailing, aimless vocals - pure filler and thank God it was dropped from the main song list.The production (credited to Rick Rubin) sounds very organic and really suits the music and the trippy, psychedelic nous of the album, as opposed to the clinically sterile over production of most rock and metal bands post 2000.NOTE : This album is also pretty unique as its one of the few non-Red Hot Chilli Peppers recorded appearance of their much lauded bassist, Flea.

## Frequently Bought Together

- De-loused in the Comatorium
- Frances the Mute
- Amputechture

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