The most haunting part of the entire album are the final lines from Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt... "Who brought me here, forsaken, deprived and wrought with fear"

As someone who almost jumped from a bridge before, this is one of the most creatively intense and beautiful pieces of music written about mental health and the human condition. a lot of it can be up to interpretation, and a lot of details and timeline things can be inaccurate or spotty, the essence of it is incredibly profound and the talent that went into it can't be ignored. Such an interesting and tragic take on a sci-fi story wrapped in real world events and psychological delusion, it just hits different from anything else I've been exposed to. Thanks for the synopsis!

This album was the birth of my creativity. Some 18 years later it still pulls me in. Cool idea for a channel!

for clarification, it is mentioned in the book that he is in the comatorium for "the crime of attempt", referring to his morphine/rat poison overdose, which was not accidental. one of the lyrics in inertiatic esp is "gestating with all the other rats", (rat poison) supporting the fact that he did this intentionally. the tremulants and lepers felt that they needed to punish him due to his suicide attempt.

I had to look up what the story was because the lyrics were so abstract. I didn't even know about the short story when I first listened to this, but I was aware that it had a story. I just didn't know what the hell it was lmao. I think you hit the nail just right from what I read on the web.

"Fever dream" is a good way of putting it. Love this album, my favorite of The Mars Volta. Always new there was a story, needed to get more in depth with it before the vinyl copy arrives. Thank you.

RIP. “Julio Venegas was nothing if not unpredictable. Coming of age in El Paso, Texas, he wrote, painted, recorded songs, played his bass guitar and - before he attempted suicide, before he became a cripple, before he shot rat poison up his arm, before he jumped off a freeway overpass into 5:30 p.m. traffic and to his death in 1996 - won the friendship of two young misfits equally immersed in the local music scene, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala. The latter two went on to form the nucleus of the progressive punk collective At the Drive-In, which dissolved in the late ’90s, leaving them to regroup as The Mars Volta in 2001. Under the new banner, Rodriguez and Bixler set out to record an epitaph to Venegas. “Julio was an artist in every sense of the word,” says Rodriguez. “When his mother died, he tried to kill himself. He shot up a bunch of morphine, but he didn’t succeed; he went into a coma. And when he came out of it, he had lost the ability to use the right side of his body. He had to learn to walk again, and once he did, he walked very awkwardly. One time he just combined different chemicals together and shot them up, and it shriveled up his arm.” Beautiful thing, to immortalize a friend like they did with that incredible album.

i listen to this album every day and I think im slowly going insane.

Breaking down Cedric’s lyrics is metal as fuuuuck

Great video! I grew up in El Paso and had always heard of the Mars Volta. I got into them pretty heavily recently, and my dad informed me that he works at UTEP with Cedric Bixler Zavala’s grandfather, and that my 4th and 5th grade teacher is Cedric’s aunt. Small world! It’s also crazy learning about the real life tragedy of Julio Venegas because I know the exact place he jumped off the overpass and had driven past it for years without knowing a tragedy occurred there.

wow this was an unexpected upload, i love this record! it’s always nice to see others discover The Mars Volta

I feel like Deloused would make an interesting animated miniseries. Like, the kind that plays with art styles

I'm a Big Fan of Coheed and Cambria and Also The Mars Volta & You did amazing about Stories Explained about Songs & Albums, Keep it Up! :)

So happy I found this channel, I'm gonna be binging through these videos soon

This is a really interesting story for an album thank you for making this. I just listened through this album and I had to look up the meaning behind it. The instrumentation is amazing and the little vocals that are there are fantastic and I just thought "there has to be more to this" It's an entertaining listen but I felt I had to look it up because I've heard some of their albums have a lot of story to them

Great job on this. One of my favorite albums of all time.

Thank you for the awesome video! The Mars Volta is my favorite band of all time and I've always been interested In the meaning of their lyrics. You did great, You made a great video!😃👍

Stumbled upon your videos looking for a recap of Coheed’s Amory Wars (which were very well done btw 👏🏼 good job on those) Then I decided to check out your other videos and your latest is💥The Mars Volta💥 Another one of my favorite bands. In 96’, At the Drive-in went through some tough times but made something beautiful out of it so that their friend could live on forever. IMO you nailed the story. Thank you for sharing this and the link to the book!

I became a recent fan too these guys imo are like if tool, king crimson, santana, miles davis, led zepplin, and salsa had a baby lol. I realllly want them to get back together but Cedric and Omar are always doing other projects. From what i listen so far of theirs i think MV is there best stuff!

Really happy to have reviewed another album by them years and years ago (frances the mute) and i'm really in line with your analysis So cheers from collegues from italy! You're awesome!

Dude I did not expect you to go into Mars Volta…. You make great videos would be awesome to see you explore other prog bands too

As if this record wasn't intense enough musically, the story is seriously INTENSE! A masterpiece of an opera

I've been listening to them a lot again these past weeks at work this album is awesome Amputechture and The Bedlam In Goliath are too thank you for doing this

I remember browsing Borders and picking this album up along with Porcupine Tree's "In Absentia" and Opeth's "Blackwater Park" has to be among my most formative trips to buy music back going into my freshman year of college. I still listen to all 3 at least once a year.

Respect! - this album is my heart - nice job!!

I was lucky enough to hear this album 2004, hooked ever since

The way I’ve explained the writing style of the story is, it’s a story told entirely in metaphors and figurative speech. It almost becomes a different language. I believe there’s a Star Trek TNG episode, where the Alien race they encounter The Darmok, language is constructed entirely on metaphors, it’s a lot like that. They’ve never mentioned this, as far as I am aware, so this is a bit of a “leap” I’m making, but I see many parallels in this story and The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen R Donaldson. I suspect they are familiar with these books. I also detect some Clive Barker “Books of the Art” & “Imajica”, especially in Cedric’s naming of people & places along with body horror aspects. From a “Concept Album” inspiration, the short story by Peter Gabriel to accompany his band Genesis’ “Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” concept album, also feels influential.(It’s a Prog record, but that’s one you could consider covering, if you haven’t already). I’d be curious to find out someday, if I’m correct?

You're beautiful, thoughtful and have great tastes. I spent countless hours studying Cedric's writing style back when I was singing. He is such an amazing artist. The whole band is. I just tend to gravitate toward the vocal sides of things. Super stoked for the new album in 12 days. I literally got back from the hospital two days ago after I attempted suicide and the Mars Volta is such a healing experience when truly listened to. Thanks for your vids. Keep up the great work.

Awesome! Someone who likes concept albums as much as I do!!!!

Ommmgggg you actually did it!!! I’m hype.

Damn fine bookshelf you got there. Storms, id give my safehand for a shelf like that.loving your take on the album though, never thought about it that hard. great work.I don't even care if you're right, that's a great story.

I do appreciate the explanation, I just kinda wish you referred to the lyrics so I could make sense of the songs themselves lol but other than that, FASCINATING video!

Wow! Can't wait for the movie.

So glad to see this. Great vid.

I'd love to talk about concept albums all day with you lol

I just found your channel and I'm. Metalhead chick and I love your vids 🤘

Maybe I'm wrong, but my personal interpretation of the album is that the lyrics aren't particularly supposed to make sense. Much like a Salvador Dali painting, where familiar images of animals, shapes, buildings etc. are combined to create this surrealist, abstract dreamscape, Cedric's lyrics follow the same formula. They are intentionally obtuse, confusing and illogical so as to "bring to life" the intense emotions and confused delirium that Jeremy Michael Ward would have experienced during his experience with drug abuse, and before his subsequent and tragic suicide. The first line of Inertiatic ESP sums up the album entirely, "now I'm lost". The narrator is lost, confused, scared and unable to describe it with words.

It’s not over ‘til the Tremulant sings

I found this band last November. Within 3 months they were in my top 5 most listened to bands ever. Incredible album

I didnt know it was this epic

I cant even imagine what was going in Cedrics head while writing this album, alot of acid i suppose

I didn’t find out about TMV well know who I was listening to and put two and two together until 2013 I think. I really wish I had been paying attention when they were coming up. But I’m so thankful to have found them now. Have seen Cedric and Omar five times now as ATDI, Antemasque and TMV. They are talented AF check out Bosnian Rainbows as well!

I’m hoping Francis The Mute is next.

So I've been a fan of them since 03' and "non-linear surrealist" is absolutely the best way to describe them lol

I'd love for you to do Frances the Mute next!

I Guess eriatarka is the Name of the clinic where wolfram tarants works

Howdy! Just wanted to say I thought this was great!!! Thank you!

Great video!! You should go see them live! Just saw them in Dallas. Highly recommend them just in case their coming to your city!

It's amazing how nobody seems to hear the hardcore punk/post-hardcore influences in this amazing album. Everyone mentions Santana and Latin jazz and Tool, but many who love this album have yet to listen to At The Drive In's _Relationship of Command_ masterpiece album.

Awesome video! Would you do one on Warp Riders by The Sword?

This series is very informative! Thank you

How about Frances the Mute? (I’m a new sub) You may have already covered it.

Hey thanks for great the video! I’ve been jammin to the since 2004. And as a person who says uh alot lol Try just taking a deep breath through your nose to regain the speed of your point. No rush. To go thru your research. You put effort into this and you should not rush yourself. Great video anyway! Keep them coming;)

Loved Mars Volta for almost 20 years now.... Sorta a Finnegan's Wake

I got this album when it came out, I've listened to it so many times and I've read all sorts of theories on what the story is. It still doesn't make sense 🤣. Great job with the explanation 🤘

i'm having trouble. where in the lyrics can i find all these informations? :D i don't think this story can be understanded without the short book. thanks for your video. it was really fun and great

Hopefully you have already discovered At the Drive-In and Sparta while wearing that Mars Volta shirt lol

I'd love it if you did the same treatment for Francis the Mute. I love that album, but I really can't make sense of it storywise.

Please do one for Frances the Mute! I still have no clue where there are 25 snakes coming out my eyes .

Deloused is Dark Side Of The Moon on choas dust

Is there any place I can get a physical copy of the book? Thank you for providing a link. Where did you find the book online? I'm a hard-core fan for many years, and I didn't even know about this book.

No one else really does these can you pleeaaaaaaaaase do more?

I would suggest talking about the Machina Duology by Smashing Pumpkins! Billy has always wanted to make a narrative driven double album, which was released in 2000 as two seperate parts about a a dude named zero and his band. He hears the voice of god through his radio and after this revelation decides to rename himself “Glass” and his band “The machines of god.” His fans are simply known as the “ghost children”. Everything after that is all kind of a blur since the narrative isn’t really straightforward with much of the details. Originally, there were plans to make an animated series adapting the story, but Unfortunately it was pretty much cancelled. The only thing we got was a bunch of concept art and some screenshots. I’d love to see you dive deeper into these two records and try to attempt to make sense of it all. Nobody has really done it before, so I don’t think there’s a reason not to do it first, yknow?

It’s “tirame a las arañas” throw me to the spiders

Recently found this album; spent days humming melodies from it ; air guitar and all..then discovered the “story”. Kinda creeped me out a bit.

Cicatriz....zi ka trith,..or thi ka trith...is spainish for scar

You should do some analyses of David Lynch movies. Try Lost Highway and Inland Empire.

Check out 'At the Drive In' if you haven't heard of them. They split up into Mars Volta and the other half of the band formed Sparta. I like At the Drive In much more than Mars Volta or Sparta. Their best album is 'Relationship of Command'

All I knew when I started looking into this album was reading it was based off a journal an old band mate of theirs found during their time as a repo man.

Imagine listening to someone talk about music who wasn't even part of the mars volta wave.

I wish you would definitely do a more detailed review

Keep the black hair. Looks great!

WHO BROUGHT ME HERE!?!?!?!😓😓😢😢😭😭😭

its crqzy how hyper creative people can be. not just thwt but the discipline to see it through. i remember when this album first came out. my sister used to get mad that i would ruin the cd from listening to much. hahaha i remember every locql band at the time wanted to be them. was 11 or 12. any of their albums are bangers the last couple u have to listen several times to appreciate. they're releasing stuff again and i wont lie it's not very good.

cicatriz means scar in Spanish but the correct spelling is cicatrize

See-cah-trees Tee-rah meh a las a-rahn-yas

Coheed mask!

Frances next

Haha these names of places and people are wild

Cicatriz is a scar

i think you should read the story in a video

7:22 sorry, can u pronounce that again? Just kidding. Nice video

little late

Damn you didn't even try with pronouncing some of the tracks lmao. Nice video though

I am more a Sparta fan that the Mars Volta which to me seems too abstract and honestly very drugged out

Don't guess, here's your explanation... xivilization.net/~marek/binaries/DeLoused_storybook.pdf