Vinyl LP pressing. De-Loused in the Comatorium is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta, originally released in 2003, on. Based on a short story written by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Ward, the concept album is an hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who enters a week-long coma after overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison. The story of Cerpin Taxt alludes to the death of El Paso, Texas artist-and Bixler-Zavala's friend-Julio Venegas (1972-1996).