The Mars Volta

The roots of The Mars Volta are found in the side project of At the Drive-In members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez known as De Facto; which also included Jeremy Michael Ward: audio technician, close friend, and cousin of At the Drive-In member Jim Ward. De Facto featured Bixler-Zavala on drums, Rodriguez-Lopez on bass, and Ward with various loop, vocal, sound, and distortion effects, — a composite of sounds, hanging squarely on tripped-out, instrumental dub. Though De Facto started as a local band with a rock feel, they were rooted in the realm of dub reggae pioneers such as Lee Perry and Dr. Alimantado. The group also dabbled in electronica, Latin, salsa, and jazz which provided...

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Album Amputechture - 2006

Day Of The Baphomets
Meccamputechture
Vicarious Atonement
Viscera Eyes
Vermicide
El Ciervo Vulnerado
Asilos Magdalena
Tetragrammaton

Album De-Loused in the Comatorium - 2003

The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium ringtones

This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
Drunkship Of Lanterns
Inertiatic ESP
Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt
Cicatriz ESP
Tira Me A Las Aranas
Son Et Lumiere
Televators
Eriatarka
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)