The Coheed and Cambria Thread

[Aberinkula]

[COLOR="Olive"]Coheed and Cambria is a 4-member progresive rock band. They have 3 albums out, 2 DVD's, a comic series, and a book as well. Coheed and Cambria is told through 4 albums, with No World for Tommorow being realeased in North America the 23rd. Co&Ca's released albums include The Second Stage Turbine Blade, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, and Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume 1: From Fear through the Eyes of Madess. Luckily I have all three and I can tell you a bit more about them.

All songs with a * after them are singles. Each CD is followed by a quick review.

[COLOR="darkgreen"][CENTER][B][U]The Second Stage Turbine Blade[/U][/B][/COLOR]
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[*]"Second Stage Turbine Blade" ? 0:52
[*]"Time Consumer" ? 5:41
[*]"Devil in Jersey City" ? 4:47 *
[*]"Everything Evil" ? 5:50
[*]"Delirium Trigger ? 4:47
[*]"Hearshot Kid Disaster" ? 5:40
[*]"33" ? 3:29
[*]"Junesong Provision" ? 5:20
[*]"Neverender" ? 5:22
[*]"God Send Conspirator" ? 6:32 [/LIST][SIZE="1"][B]Re-realesed album's Bonus Tracks[/B][/SIZE][LIST=1]
[*]"Elf Tower New Mexico" ? 6:03
[*]"Junesong Provision" (Acoustic Demo) ? 5:33
[*]"Everything Evil" (Demo) ? 13:37 ("IRO-Bot"- 7:26)
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[LEFT]This album came as a dissapointment for me. The songs are good, don't get me wrong. But they just don't appeal to me. Deliruium trigger is the best song on the album, andit's one of CoO&Ca's best songs. Junesong Provision (Accoustic Demo) has a quote from Buce Cambell's Army of Darkness movie. Other good songs include Everything Evil, Timeem Consumer and Elf Tower New Mexico.[/LEFT]

[COLOR="darkgreen"][B][U]In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3[/U][/B][/COLOR]
[LIST=1]
[*]"The Ring in Return" ? 2:07
[*]"In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" ? 8:12
[*]"Cuts Marked in the March of Men" ? 5:00
[*]"Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)" ? 5:08
[*]"The Crowing" ? 6:35
[*]"Blood Red Summer" ? 4:05 *
[*]"The Velourium Camper I: Faint of Hearts" ? 5:21
[*]"The Velourium Camper II: Backend of Forever" ? 5:22
[*]"The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer" ? 4:15
[*]"A Favor House Atlantic" ? 3:54 *
[*]"The Light & the Glass" ? 9:39
[*]"21:13" ? 9:46 (Hidden Track)
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[LEFT]My first Co&Ca purchase,a dn it was a good buy. This CD is just amazing and briliant. Track 2 is the first song on this C, and perhaps the best on it. The Crowing and The Light and the Glass are just as good. 21:13 which is after 12 tracks of silence is another great song, with the"Iro-Bot will never die" re-apearing. IKSOSE:3 also has a refference of Claudio Sancez's The Prize Fighter Inferno, which is a sub-story aout Jesse Kilgannon or the Prize Figther.[/LEFT]

[COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][U]Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume 1: From Fear throught eh Eyes of Madness[/U][/B][/COLOR]

[LIST=1]
[*]Keeping the Blade - 2:08
[*]Always & Never - 2:23
[*]Welcome Home - 6:14 *
[*]Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) - 3:46 *
[*]Crossing the Frame - 3:26
[*]Apollo I: The Writing Writer - 5:15
[*]Once Upon Your Dead Body - 3:19
[*]Wake Up - 3:35
[*]The Suffering - 3:43 *
[*]The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court - 3:17
[*]Mother May I - 4:32
[*]The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End - 7:17
[*]The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness - 7:28
[*]The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth - 7:18
[*]The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut - 7:40
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[LEFT]This CD is a rock opera, as stated by WMP's reviews. And I must agree. Even though only some songs are good, it's my favoirte album and I feel, C&Ca's best work so far. Welcome Home is amazing, but it's *** get's kicked by The Final Cut. And the video to Welcome Home is amazing as well. Apollo's I and II are similar except the lyrics are a little bit changed. "With these lessons he might learn all the world's from here must burn" Apollo I. "With thelessons he has learned allt eh worlds from here must burn" Apollo II. See? From Fear through the Eyes of Madness is another great song. And the Suffering, is just a guilty pleasure for me.[/LEFT]
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[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I bought IKSOSE:3 first. I loved it like I've never loed an album (other than Frances the Mute by TMV) and was excited to get the others. I got GAIBS4 next and wasn't sure what to make of it, so I didn't think about it too much. I next got SSTB an hated it. It was way to emo and totally lacked epic.

Some months went by, and I still loved IKSOSE:3 and was still unsure of GAIBS4. However, one time I listened to SSTB really carefully (actually I think it came from listening to Delirium Trigger and Neverender individually a lot of times on youtube) and thought it was really good. I then became mondo obsessed with the album and listened to it three times a day for 2 weeks. Since then it's been my favorite of the three.

GAIBS4 I stated to like, and for a while go really into (when I was listening to a lot of Rush and Tool alongside it) but I gradually lost taste for it. I can't sit through the album in one sitting, period. Still like IKSOSE:3 but it's only half good. [/COLOR]

[Justin]

I don't give a crap what Claudio says, Coheed should have to pay Rush royalties.

-Justin

[TimeChaser]

I had a room mate in college who listened to C&C, and at the time I never payed much attention to them. Later, when I discovered the complex storyline they wove through all their albums, I gave them a listen.

Good Apollo Vol. 1 is still my favorite (their production quality is the best on that album), with Silent Earth 3 running a close second place.

I don't listen to Turbine Blade as much, mostly because they were more poppy back then and the production quality on that album is not very good.

And I am looking forward to Good Apollo Vol. 2.

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I think I actually might like Shabutie more than Coheed. For those who don't know, Shabutie is essentially Coheed before they were Coheed and they had a much darker sound and the best lyrics EVER. There are 2 EPs that were actually released - Plan to Take Over the World and Penelope. PtTOtW is a bit lighter than Penelope, but has some cool material. There's only 6 songs, and of them 3 are really good and the other 3 are just okay. Desciple's Anthem is a bit on the strange side, but they really shine in Wake Up and Strung Short. Wake Up basically sounds like Jane's Addiction with more bass. And man, when Shabutie pushes the bass, they know what they're doing. Strung Short has one of the best bass-riffs I've ever heard.

Shabutie REALLY gets good on the Penelope EP though. Kinderwhore is OMG LOVE on the bass. Plus it has the single greatest line of all time: "I've got this power in my genitals". Camoflage is awesome rage and resembles Delirium Trigger in some ways. Shameless is the closest Shabutie song to the sound of Coheed. Then we get to my absolute favorite Shabutie song, Godfather's Lollipop. Epic, pure win, greatest lyrical/vocal combination EVER and amazing bass again. One of my alltime favorite songs, and better than anything Coheed.

They also have a whole crapload of rare tracks lol. [/COLOR]

[Aberinkula]

[COLOR="Olive"]Delirium Trigger is my favorite Coheed ad Cambria song. with songs like Welcome Home, 21:13 and The the Willing Well IV: Final Cut constantly drilling through my ears. Still haven't debunked the lyrics that start at 4:23 into the song right before the end. That is the moment I wait for beacsue it has an epic feel in the backround As for welcome Home the lyrics are amazing and the story is great. With 21:13 it's just the lyrics and the osn's differences that keep changing. Like towards the end when it starts to sound sort of like Time-Consumer, right before the Iro-bot skit. I love listening to "Iro-bot" after Everything Evil [Demo version] With Final Cut, it's the emotion behind the playing that gets to me.

And what's with almost every artist? Does everyone have a song called Wake Up?

As for GAIBS4, The Willing well sogns are depic, each and everyone has soemthing about it that I love. I myself can hardly wait for Vol. 2 to come out. My *** is just getting sore in anticipation.

[QUOTE]I don't give a crap what Claudio says, Coheed should have to pay Rush royalties.

-Justin[/QUOTE]

A lot of bands owe crap to Rush. Coheed and Cambria is a definite yes int aht dpartment. I mean 21:13? come on, ain't that hard to see.

But Claudio doesn't have give thanks to Rush if he doesn't want to. I owe a lot to my parents for giving me my beautiful balls, but I don't thank them and hug them for it. I could, but I just don't want to.[/COLOR]

[Japan]

[COLOR="DarkRed"]I bought a cd a long time ago and somehow I lost it. It had a bonus track that was a tribute to Army of Darkness. Awesome cd.

I recently bought Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume 1: From Fear throught eh Eyes of Madness a month ago. Both are really awesome cds. When I first saw a music video I was literally creeped out. I think it was Atlantic City. Not sure. They are really good to listen to for studying.

A lot of people should pay Metallica royalties too but they do not. [/COLOR]

[James P. Galvatron]

As of right now Coheed and Cambria are streaming their new cd on Myspace on their page for free the entire thing.

It has a heavier sound like one we heard in IKSOSE3 and when they were known as Shabutie it doesn't have such poppy tones as those heard in 2nd Stage Turbine or Good Apollo 1. No World For Tomorrow sounds amazing you have to check it out.

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Copied from my music blog~



Coheed and Cambria just put their new album, Good Apollo I?m Burning Star IV, Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow on their myspace: THE WHOLE THING!!! [url]http://www.myspace.com/coheedandcambria[/url]

So far I?m only on the 3rd track (2nd song) but it?s already got a lot of potential and might be better than the less-than-savory volume one. No World For Tomorrow was a surprising break from the usual, being an epic song completely different from the style of IKSOSE:3 and Welcome Home. The second song blows away every Ten Speed variant featured on the whole of Volume one as well XD. The next song, Feathers, reminds me of the weirdness of IKSOSE:3, and the Running Free (complete with awesome video of Claudio in toilet XD) is like a mix of Volume One and Shabutie, which is quite interesting. Mother Superior is unfortunately a pretty boring epic ballad. It?s like the Seize the Day of this album XD (for those who don?t know, it?s that really lame A7X song).

Gravemakers and Gunslingers may be the heaviest song that Coheed has ever recorded complete with heavy riffs, fast-paced solos mixed with that classic Coheed epic. Listening to Justice in Murder, it occurs to me that the theme of this album is generally to take the sound of Volume One and make it far more heavy, which is great because the biggest fault of Volume One was trying to sound like some cheesy pop music. Justice in Murder sounds like a volume one song, which is a flaw in a way, but it?s so much heavier.

Next are the 5 ?The End Complete? tracks, the first being a 1 minute insert track. II - Radio Bye Bye is unfortunately a total volume one track, and in addition rather boring. It sounds almost just like ?Once Upon Your Dead Body? toward the end. III - the End Complete (worst song name EVER) is pretty good. Like the Willing Well I and II, it has some really great parts as well as some meh parts, but all around it?s quite epic and channels Shabutie for a portion of it.

I can?t really comprehend why, but for some reason IV - The Road and the Damned completely feels like a cheesy movie song. Like a Disney movie but with 100% more power ballad. Or maybe it?ll be the super-sad ?looking-back? scene before the climax in the Coheed story. Either way it?s pretty damn corny, which serves to hurt it.

As expected of the last song on a Coheed album, V- On the Brink is absolutely ****ing epic. It starts off with this great verse tat reminds me of The Real Folk Blues or Stairway to Heaven or something, then gets into the really weird heavy part before rounding off with a continuation of the solo from The Final Cut. All around, it?s pretty damn awesome, and I?d say that overall, I may be calling No World for Tomorrow better than From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, but I?ll spend more time with it before making any sweeping statements.
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[Justin]

Yeah, a lot of **** bands should pay Metallica royalties. Like Godsmack.

I'll give it to Coheed, they've got matze for being able to write well, and they're good musicians. But honestly, you've got to admit, they're almost like Rush part Deux.

-Justin

[Aberinkula]

[COLOR="Olive"]Boy, the wait was murder. But it wasn't all for naught. This album is pure gold. I got it today at F.Y.E. Luckily I got out of school early today, so I was able to buy the LAT COPY! O lucky me. So far I've only listened to The Reaping, No world for Tomorrow, The Running Free, Grvemakers & Gunslingers and I'm currently listening to V-on the Brink, whcih is undoubtaly EPIC. I'll be listing the tracks soon, as well as a quick review. But I will leave you with this hint...

[B][size=4]BUY THIS ****ING ALBUM![/size][/B][/COLOR]