Track list:

01.Son Et Lumiere
02.Inertiatic Esp
03.Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
04.Tira Me A Las Aranas
05.Drunkship Of Lanterns
06.Eriatarka
07.Cicatriz Esp
08.This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
09.Televators
10.Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt


Following the Tremulant EP, The Mars Volta continued touring and changing band members while preparing for De-Loused in the Comatorium, produced with Rick Rubin. Whereas Tremulant had no general theme (except the prophetic mentioning of its follow-up album), De-Loused was a unified work of speculative fiction that told the story from the first-person perspective of a drug-induced coma. Though lyrically obtuse, The Mars Volta stated in interviews that the album's protagonist is based on their late friend Julio Venegas, or "Cerpin Taxt", as mentioned in the story, who was in a coma several years prior to his awakening, in which he jumped from the Mesa Street overpass onto Interstate-10 in El Paso during afternoon rush-hour traffic. Venegas's death was also referenced in the At the Drive-In song "Embroglio" from their album "Acrobatic Tenement".

At the time of the recording the band did not have a bass player. Flea (renowned bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) played bass on nine of the ten songs on the LP. De-Loused became both critically and commercially their biggest hit, eventually selling in excess of 500,000 copies despite next-to-no promotion, but featured on several critics' "Best of the Year" lists. The band later releases a limited-edition storybook version of the album, available by download from the Gold Standard Laboratories Web site. The book speaks of Cerpin Taxt (sometimes referred to as the album/story's "hero") and his suicide.

While on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in support of their album, The Mars Volta's sound manipulator and contributing lyricist, Jeremy Ward, was found dead of a drug overdose. The band cancelled the tour's second leg and the first single from De-Loused was later dedicated to Ward.

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