 Tracks 3-9 appeared among leaked music files in August 2013 as instrumental pieces.Between listeners and TMV singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala himself, the collection of unfinished songs were named "The Ramrod Tapes" or "Revenants", which covered different eras of Omar's output and various Mars Volta songs in stages of development such as an early "Vicarious Atonement" from 2006's "Amputechture" and the original basic tracks for "Molochwalker" with Thomas Pridgen in 2008 which finally appeared on 2012's "Noctourniquet".