Daily album for October 6, 2025 De-Loused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta (2003)

Cover art for De-Loused in the Comatorium

Genres

  • alternative punk
  • alternative rock
  • experimental rock
  • melodic metalcore
  • neo-progressive rock
  • post-hardcore
  • progressive metal
  • progressive rock
  • rock

De-Loused in the Comatorium is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta, released on June 24, 2003, on Gold Standard Laboratories and Universal Records. Based on a short story written by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Ward, the concept album is an hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who enters a week-long coma after overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison. The story of Cerpin Taxt alludes to the death of El Paso, Texas artist—and Bixler-Zavala's friend—Julio Venegas (1972–1996).

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