Category: COHEED AND CAMBRIA

COHEED AND CAMBRIA’s Claudio Sanchez has spent more than two decades building an ambitious mythology based around The Amory Wars saga, his series of interlocking comic books and novels that have provided the basis for eight of the band’s nine albums.
The upcoming album ”Vaxis II: A Window On The Waking Mind” (which was been delayed for Jume 24) is the 2nd installment of the new five-part “Vaxis” arc about a couple on the run from tyrannical forces and their mysterious new addition.
Throughout their career, the band have had one foot in the world of alt-rock/emo, and another in the prog sphere. Vaxis: Act I and that album’s non-conceptual predecessor The Color Before The Sun dialled the grandiosity back in favour of a more straightforward Rock approach. This time, the needle moves closer to the more ambitious approach of old, even if no one is going to confuse Coheed And Cambria for Gentle Giant.
This is rock& pop music masterfully pairing metal-infused riffs with sweeping, melodic vocals and light prog in a way that only Coheed can…

COHEED AND CAMBRIA have announced details of their long awaited new album and Roadrunner Records debut, ”Vaxis Act 1 : The Unheavenly Creatures“. The sprawling fifteen track, self-produced epic finds Coheed and Cambria returning to the conceptual narrative of The Amory Wars.
While almost all of Coheed‘s output of the past decade has come in varying degrees of good, this new saga starter ”Vaxis Act 1 : The Unheavenly Creatures” is the first in over a decade to be truly great, and the first in as many years to be a legitimate year-end list contender.
As Coheed and Cambria‘s ninth LP, ”Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures” is something of a late-career triumph. It sees the band returning to..