This week's Is This Song Good? podcast features The Mars Volta with a deep cut from the 2003 album De-Loused in the Comatorium called Eriatarka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RObASoHeD7Y
It was recently announced that all of The Mars Volta's catalog of albums would be released in a ginormous box set of vinyl called La Realidad De Los Suenos. As part of that set is this newly remastered and compiled recordings from the first sessions for De-Loused in the Comatorium, The Mars Volta's first album. Due to its historical significance, they also decided to…
While De-Loused in the Comatorium was a great first album, The Mars Volta decided to discard any sort of formula and re-invent their own wheel by asking the question: "What if we make a 5-song concept album about a drug addict in search of his biological parents?" Turns out they wanted it to be 6 songs, but CDs couldn't hold all of it, so…
From the ashes of the punk/emo band At the Drive-In rose the phoenix of The Mars Volta, the prog rock brainchild of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. In 2003, they released this, their first album and hoo boy was no one ready for it. The energy and extreme rocking still crushes to this day. It's got bass work from Flea of the Red Hot…
The year was 2005 and Coheed and Cambria released their most ambitious rock opera album about violence and a writer trying to understand his story that has grown bigger than himself. It is also the album that always comes to mind when talking about long album titles. If I had to pick one word to describe this album, I'd say it should be "Epic,"…
