
Relationship Of Command
At The Drive-In's final pre-split salvo arrived as post-hardcore's molotov cocktail through a gallery window. Producer Ross Robinson captured the El Paso quintet's controlled chaos across ten tracks that married punk's desperation to prog's ambition, Cedric Bixler-Zavala's yelps ricocheting off Omar Rodríguez-López's serrated riffs like bullets in a cement mixer.
One Armed Scissor became their unlikely anthem, but the entire album thrums with political fury and rhythmic convulsions. Released September 2000, it mapped the blueprint for two bands, The Mars Volta and Sparta, before anyone knew they needed splitting up.
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