The Mars Volta
 

Has anyone else heard their new cd ? (its out on mirc i know ) Its called De-Loused In The Comatorium, its their first full length release. I got it last night..... wow. I havent been this blown away since i heard kid A or el cielo. Just a masterpiece of modern music.
Im sure most people arent goin to enjoy it... which i like. however i know this board has many, lets say musically 'enlightened' listeners... If anyone is fed up with music today and enjoys a very VERY eclectic album thats just mind blowing..... give it a shot, or anything by the volta. Truly amazing. This is the kind of band who could save modern music.....

it's very very awesome.

i think at the drive in fans will be very impressed... it totally blows sparta out of the water as far as the alumni are concerned.

it's a shame though about jeremy ward's death..

what happened to him?? i hadnt heard anything?

I got this album today, and I love it. This is saying a lot for me, because it's totally not the style of music that I normally listen to. I'm mainly into the really heavy stuff, like Sepultura, Children of Bodom, Dying Fetus, Slipknot, etc... But De-Loused in the crematorium is just an excellent album, genres aside.

amazing band...
probably one of the best out today when it comes to the more mainstream rock/metal world.

I love them

yeah i just got it about a week ago... it is pretty damn awesome, quite the innovation.

I heard the song "Drunkship of Lanterns" on a college radio station and I was totally blown away. I prayed that they would say the bands name, but they only said the name of the song. I scribbled it down and went to Google as soon as I went home.
These guys KICK ASS!!

got it a day or so ago. Really refreshing, innovative and also rocking.

Fucking rules, ive already recomended it to lots of people. Awesome cd, everyone should get it.

i can't stand the singer..but mike portnoy is one of the best drummers ever

The singer is my favorite part of the band.

yea one of my friends listened to it, and its pretty damn good

specially the song inertiatic esp

Got it while I was in Rhode Island, and loving it. Very refreshing piece of work they made.
Favorite songs on the album:
Televators
This apparatus must be unearthed
Inertiatic ESP

Also side question: What does their former band, At the Drive In sound like? for whatever reason I can't find it in stores near me.

At The Drive-In sounds like punk rock filtered through Rage Against the Machine. "Arc Arsenal," "One-Armed Scissor," and "Cosmonaut" are favorites of mine.

Beware, though, that Bixler's voice is much more rough around the edges than with Volta.. I think he took voice lessons after he left ATDI, because his delivery often devolves in ragged shouting on the ATDI stuff.

It's also a lot less experimental, and there's no Santana influence or Led Zepplin tributage.

amazing i love volta, heard the whole cd in the car the other day and loved it

It's the best cd I've ever heard. I've had a constant boner since June when it came out.