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	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
		With their frenetic stage moves and wilder hair, the singer and guitarist were the dual frontmen for At The Drive-In and this record takes them in to far crazier and eclectic territory than ever allowed in the past.
		Inspired by the suicide of their artist friend Julio Venegas in 1996,'De-Loused.' is a concept album which turns reality around.
		It has Venegas trying to commit suicide, only to lapse into a coma and spend a week inside his dreams before waking up and choosing to die.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0715/marsvolta.html (445 words)

	The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium \| sputnikmusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Though anyone familiar with the Mars Volta should know the story of Julio Venegas, there are quite a few that are unknowing of such a disturbing, yet fascinating story that runs through the course of the Mars Volta's first full-length album, De-Loused in the Comatorium.
		Julio, a good friend of the band, was known to be a rather avid illegal substance user, now famously known to have experimented with the mainlining of rat poison.
		One day, Julio took it to a new extreme, overdosing on morphine, a drug usually used in hospitals for pain-relief.
	www.musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=3509&genreid=15&styleid=18 (1393 words)

	Mars Volta, The @ * flaming torch * (punk, emo, ska band directory) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Julio Venegas, an artist from El Paso, Texas, committed suicide in 1996.
		De-Loused In The Comatorium is an iridescent, fearless, brain-busting hour of music, a fictionalized celebration of Julio Venegas’ life.
		Based on a story written by Cedric, it is a concept album in which the hero tries to commit suicide by overdosing on morphine.
	www.flaming-torch.co.uk /cgi-bin/artist.cgi?artist_id=105&browse_letter=M&start_from=1 (1082 words)

	Eye - Life on Mars - 07.17.03
		That LP, the recently released De-Loused in the Comatorium, is a chronicle of the circumstances leading to the suicide of Julio Venegas, a friend and mentor from ATDI's early days in El Paso, Texas.
		The band credits Venegas with exposing them to new sounds, giving them the confidence to experiment with ideas beyond punk's blunt sonic rebellion.
		Referring to De-Loused's surreal cover, on which a gold head spews light from its gaping mouth, Bixler reflects on the heights -- spiritual, not commercial -- to which TMV's music may, in theory, be able to reach.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.17.03/music/marsvolta.html (494 words)

	Open Mic
		Venegas' life was the inspiration for The Mars Volta's first full-length CD "Deloused in the Comatorium," released in late June.
		"Julio was a brother to us and he was part of a close group of friends that always hung out," Rodriguez-Lopez said.
		He was definitely like Julio, a soulmate, and a brother to us.
	www.elpasotimes.com /legacy/openmic/080503marsvolta.html (1085 words)

	gsl75 info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He falls into a coma and has an adventure through the different worlds and planets of his subconscious - the dark and the light.
		Inspired by the life and times of the band’s childhood friend Julio Venegas.
		The vinyl is packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket and also includes a poster.
	www.goldstandardlabs.com /marsvolta/gsl75_info.html (71 words)

	The Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Julio Venegas, a close friend of the band's, committed suicide in 1996, and as the media has repeatedly pointed out, De-Loused in the Comatorium is supposed to be a chronicle of his life and death.
		This is a monumental case of the media blindly reviewing off their press kits-- there's absolutely no way of gleaning this story/idea/topics/concept/whatever in the hilariously awful, sub-Burroughs, refrigerator-magnet montage of dark PSAT words that make up this album.
		The only sensible summation of Venegas' demise seems to be that he proclaimed, "Now I'm lost," then "searched" for "something" for a "long time," then cried "Is anybody there," and finally "took" the ol' "veil cerpin taxt." Huh.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/m/mars-volta/deloused-in-the-comatorium.shtml (948 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Friday - Out of this world
		De-Loused is an hour-long punk opera celebrating the life of Bixler’s artist friend Julio Venegas, a scarred invalid with a withered arm from shooting up rat poison, who committed suicide in 1996 while At The Drive-In were in rehearsal (I am not making this up).
		In a sad aside, the Mars Volta have just lost an even closer associate, their offstage "sound manipulator" and nominal sixth member Jeremy Ward, who was found dead in his apartment a couple of weeks ago.
		As the dust settles, you are left none the wiser about Julio "Frankenstein" Venegas.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=676162003 (813 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Forging a fearsome sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With Venegas as his muse, guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez devised riffs for this record that are as original as classic lines by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page or King Crimson's Robert Fripp, though he mimics neither.
		Bixler-Zavalas says the titles had to be weird, since the songs mean to chronicle Venegas' otherworldly experience in a coma before his death.
		In the end, Venegas suffered greatly, barely surviving one suicide attempt before finally taking his own life.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/v-pfriendly/story/96157p-87124c.html (952 words)

	IGN: Reader Review: De-Loused in the Comatorium
		August 14, 2003 - In the CD booklet, this statement is contained: "Inspired by the life and times of Julio Venegas." This is an important factor to keep in mind when first abosrbing the album.
		Its narrative, carried across all 10 tracks, follows Venegas' adventure through an alternate dream reality, while his physical body lay in a Morphine induced coma.
		Venegas chose to commit suicide after waking from this coma.
	music.ign.com /articles/433/433748p1.html (556 words)

	Echo Online :: Features :: The Mars Volta has energetic performance
		The band recently suffered the death by drug overdose of their sample/effects man Jeremy Michael Ward, and "De-loused" is a theme album dedicated to a dead friend from their original home of El Paso, Texas.
		Julio Venegas, who took his own life in 1996, was an artist and close friend of the band, and Zavala's brief dedication to Venegas on ATDI's same-year track "Embroglio," in Zavala's eyes, did not quite do their friend's tragic loss justice.
		While inspired by Venegas, the record actually follows a fictionalized suicidal character through a vividly illustrated drug-induced coma for the majority of the time.
	www.easternecho.com /cgi-bin/print.cgi?4006 (707 words)

	KUCI 88.9FM in Irvine
		De-loused in the Comatorium, is a tribute to the life of Julio Venegas, a high school friend who spent the majority of his life shooting up so much, in fact one of his arms was unfunctionable from accidentally shooting up rat poison.
		Julio unfortunately committed suicide during a band practice.
		Unlike many concept albums today, De-loused in the Comatorium is a deep journey in the life of a man who's fallen into a coma where he fantasizes about emotional highs only to awake and choose to die rather than live.
	www.kuci.org /show_feature.cgi?id=311 (484 words)

	The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
		The album is based around a Mexican artist called Julio Venegas, a friend of guitarist/bassist/songwriter Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler Zavala, who committed suicide in 1997.
		It covers the week when Venegas went into a coma and creates a fictional world that he might have fallen into where he wrestles between whether to live or die.
		This may sound rather morbid, but the spirit is more one of melancholy adventure, something which is matched by the incredible music on offer.
	www.musicomh.com /albums/mars-volta.htm (394 words)

	Televators by The Mars Volta Songfacts
		This is the song where I think that Cerpin Taxt (Julio Venegas) kills himself by jumping off the bridge.
		well, julio venegas may have been in a morphine induced coma, but what i garnered from the lyrics of son et lumiere is that the rat poison suicide attempt is what sends cerpin taxt into the coma.
		Cerpin Taxt (Julio Venegas) was in a morphine induced coma...the rat poison was another suicide attempt that shriveled up his arm but didn't work...i'm pretty sure the bridge thing is right though...but i always thought that take the veil was the part where he killed himself...
	www.songfacts.com /detail.lasso?id=3559 (620 words)

	Jon Theodore: Artist Update: Modern Drummer Magazine 12/04/2005
		Aurally bold, dense, and shimmering, lyrically cryptic, and deeply mind-tweaking, De-Loused is a fictionalized rock opera of sorts, honoring the life of late artist Julio Venegas, who committed suicide in 1996.
		Venegas was a friend of Mars Volta vocalist Cedric Bixler Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, both formerly of the critically lauded progressive punk band At The Drive-In.
		This album is their homage to Venegas and his continuing cult of enigma.
	www.moderndrummer.com /updatefull/200001556 (847 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta at Epinions.com
		Cedric Zavala was the singer of "At the Drive In" (ATDI) and his obvious talent shines through on "De-Loused in the Comatorium." This album is not merely a collection of songs though, the entire album is a dedication to a close friend of Cedric's, Julio Venegas.
		The album has an overwhelming theme of being an audio description of one man's dreams and visions while in a coma.
		Julio Venegas was in a coma before his self-inflicted death in 1996.
	www.epinions.com /content_110235192964 (1374 words)

	Nude as the News: The Mars Volta: De-loused In The Comatorium
		Based on the sad tale of Rodriguez and Bixler's friend, Julio Venegas -- who was one seriously fucked-up kid -- Mars Volta's newest joint is the rock opera Pete Townshend or Jimmy Page would have written if they grew up on punk.
		I literally can't tell you which stage of Venegas' journey this tune is about -- I have no idea really; lyrics aren't included -- but there isn't a more powerful, dynamic, and multifaceted song being released today.
		Buttressed by riffs with more meat than a Texas killing floor and a drum pattern that would make John Bonham blush, "Cicatriz" is a 12-minute barnburner that kicks sonic ass until its halfway point, where it proceeds to disintegrate into a gorgeous, pile of tangential guitar solos and reverb atmospherics.
	www.nudeasthenews.com /reviews/1115 (1004 words)

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		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.
		“Julio was an artist in every sense of the word,” says Rodriguez.
		He lived every day getting himself into situations and always getting lost, so he had scars all over his body that let you know the places where he had been.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=45177 (943 words)

	Blistering.com :: Music :: Reviews :: The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
		The progressive avante garde rock tinged material is far more eclectic than the rock sound that dominated At The Drive-In’s material, making this album something of an oddity.
		The concept (Inspired by the life of artist friend Julio Venegas, who committed suicide in 1996 on morphine.
		The story focuses on his dreams within a coma following a drug overdose) is almost impossible to follow within its cryptic delivery, and matches the often confused delivery of the music.
	www.blistering.com /reviews/album.php3?ID=5291 (425 words)

	Up & Coming Magazine
		Featuring Cedric Zavala, vocals; Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitar; Jon Theodore, drums; Juan Alderete, bass; and Isaiah Owens on keyboards, The Mars Volta have a stellar release in their debut CD, entitled De-Loused In The Comatorium.
		The album, an amalgamation of art and musical exploration, is a tribute to Julio Venegas, an artist from El Paso, Texas who committed suicide in 1996.
		A friend of Zavala's, Venegas' life - and death - inspired the lead singer and frontman for The Mars Volta to craft a musical celebration of Zavala's struggles.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1147&dept_id=483438&newsid=11199491&PAG=461&rfi=9 (1007 words)

	Los Angeles Public Library \| Central Library \| Californiana at the Los Angeles Public Library
		The unpublished manuscript was edited and compiled by Padre Burriel, and in its final form, became the most extensive account of Lower California of its period.
		The first part of the work consists of a number of letters written from missions in California and the Azores, describing the country, animals, Indians, and trials of the missionaries.
		He states that Venegas' account is in error in certain respects.
	www.lapl.org /central/californiana.html (6273 words)

	[No title]
		De-loused in the Comatorium is a concept record based on "the life and times of Julio Venegas".
		Venegas was a friend of the afro'd duo of Cedric and Omar, who struggled through drug addiction and eventually took his own life in the mid- nineties.
		The record follows Venegas' journeys from the time period of his drug-induced coma until his eventual suicide.
	www.treblezine.com /viewer.cgi?id=28&type=r (409 words)

	Life on Mars - Tiscali Music News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A free spirit and noted provocateur, "He was definitely someone who lived life to the full," remembers his friend, Cedric Bixler Zavalas.
		When Cedric used to sing in At The Drive-In, he wrote a lyric - 'Embroglio', on 1996's 'Acrobatic Tenement' - about Venegas, who had killed himself while that band were rehearsing.
		'De-Loused In The Comatorium' is an iridescent, fearless, brain-busting hour of music, a fictionalised celebration of Julio Venegas' life.
	www.screaming.net /music/news/11635.html (336 words)

	defyUnlearn.com::Online Music Magazine
		Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez vividly remember their friend, Julio Venegas.
		After he awoke from a coma and before his suicide, Venegas was said to have a withered arm from shooting up rat poison.
		After their 2001 split from At the Drive-In, Zavala and Rodriquez-Lopez gathered musicians to rekindle their artistic spirit under the new alias, The Mars Volta.
	www.defyunlearn.com /reviews.php?id=75 (314 words)

	Decapolis
		This album, as stated in the album’s cover, is “based on the life and times of Julio Venegas.” Venegas was a friend of theirs that struggled with mental issues until he committed suicide.
		Combined with the amazing intro, it is a driving glimpse into the head of Julio Venegas.
		The chorus simply repeats the phrase, “now I’m lost.” With Bixler Zavala’s unexplainably high range mixed with the combination of driving guitar and background effects, this song creates an amazing opening and a glimpse of what is to come.
	www.decapolis.com /cgi-bin/music/viewnews.cgi?newsid1062075136,18669, (525 words)

	Playback St. Louis Review - De-Loused in the Comatorium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A concept album from start to finish, it is a fictionalized account of the cerebral experiences of a man who lies in a coma after attempting suicide.
		The album is derived from the life of close friend Julio Venegas, who committed suicide in 1996.
		Although the album concludes with Venegas awaking from a coma only to successfully carry out the taking of his own life, the ultimate impression is not one of darkness and letdown.
	www.playbackstl.com /Current/PBP/comatorium.htm (464 words)

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