The Mars Volta - Landscape Tantrums + De-Loused In The Comatorium - LP Bundle

A perfect match: The unfinished original recordings and the final version that became The Mars Volta’s debut masterpiece in one LP bundle.

LANDSCAPE TANTRUMS is not just the first attempt at recording the music that would become The Mars Volta’s DE-LOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM, but rather manifests that much of what would make The Mars Volta’s debut album such an electrifying, sublime experience was already in place: the fearless invention, the fusion of futurist rock elements and traditions from outside of the rock orthodoxy, the sense of virtuosity working in service of emotional effect. More than mere historical curiosity, Landscape Tantrums is an essential text for the dedicated Mars Volta aficionado, and a breathtaking album in its own right.

DE-LOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM - “Honour our roots, honour our dead”. This mindset found perfect expression in the group’s 2003 debut full-length, DE-LOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM, a song cycle inspired by the life and death of the duo’s old friend, artist and provocateur Julio Venegas. Driven by furious, muscular, syncopated drums and frenetic guitar parts, bending obtuse grooves to its will and twisting off in passionate, cathartic descarga and merging with the iconic work of producer Rick Rubin DE-LOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM became a global phenomenon.