“Deloused in the Comatorium” by The Mars Volta
A Modern-Day Epic, and a Triumph in Musical Exploration
Through wonder, horror, tranquility, mourning, confusion, and those emotions too subtle for us to have words for yet, this album takes you on a path to the outermost and inner-most reaches of imagination and human experience.
It is what you hadn’t known you’ve waited to hear for your whole life.
About the Creator
Uncle Bunk
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all this bullshit.” -Howie P.
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