Coheed and Cambria
| Coheed and Cambria | |
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.jpg) Coheed and Cambria join the National Symphony Orchestra to mark NASA 's 60th anniversary at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC , 2018. |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Progressive rock |
| founding | 1995 as a shabutie |
| Website | www.coheedandcambria.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Claudio Sanchez | |
Guitar, vocals |
Travis Stever |
| Zach Cooper (since 2012) | |
| Joshua Eppard (until 2006, since 2011) | |
| former members | |
bass |
Matt Williams (2006-2007) |
bass |
Michael Todd (1996-2006, 2007-2011) |
Drums |
Chris Pennie (2006-2011) |
Coheed and Cambria is a Founded in 2001, New York's progressive rock - band whose albums, a science fiction - Saga tell the couple Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon. From 1995 to 2001 the group was active under the name Shabutie .
history
In 2006, drummer Eppard and bassist Todd left the band for personal reasons. As successors, Matt Williams (formerly Jumblehead ) on bass and Chris Pennie (formerly The Dillinger Escape Plan ) on drums . Singer Sanchez and guitarist Stever saw this as a new beginning.
On April 25, 2007, ex-bassist Michael Todd officially returned to the band, replacing Williams, just in time for the studio recordings for the new album. On November 16, 2011, the band announced on the official homepage that Joshua Eppard would also be joining the band again.
style
music
Musically speaking, Coheed and Cambria can be roughly assigned to progressive rock , with a certain special position due to their diverse indie and metal influences. The high voice of the singer Claudio Sanchez also determines the character of the music. A gloomy mood often reveals itself in the songs of the band.
Texts
Coheed and Cambria is a concept band. In their songs they tell the story of the married couple Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon, who live on an earth-like planet and act as guardians of the keywork, a connection of 69 planets within a universe known as Heaven's Fence.
One day Coheed learns from a general named Mayo Deftinwolf that he was born with a virus called Monstar, which he allegedly passed on in a more dangerous form (known as Sinstar) to his four children, Josephine, Claudio, Matthew and Maria . The incurable Sinstar, if activated on the wearer's 23rd birthday, would destroy the universe. Deftinwolf forces Coheed to kill his children. Coheed succeeds in poisoning Maria and Matthew, and Josephine also dies (see the song Everything Evil ). Only Claudio escapes, who now has the task of saving Heaven's Fence (see the song The Crowing ), since his parents were victims of an intrigue of Deftinwolf and are now in his hands.
Meanwhile, a war breaks out on the planet Silent Earth 3 (see the song In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth 3 ). The rebels led by Coheed's brother Jesse are found by the government and are to be destroyed. At the same time Claudio is to be taken prisoner in order to turn him off as well, since he represents a danger to those in power in the Keyworks. But Claudio escapes and boards a spaceship called Velourium Camper, which is led by a racist and psychopathic murderer named Al (see song title Al The Killer ). Little does he know that Al wants to bring him to the central power base House Atlantic (see song A Favor House Atlantic ) to hand him over to the ruler of Heaven's Fence, the cruel and megalomaniac Wilhelm Ryan.
Many details remained in the dark for a long time, as the band often kept a low profile over the course of history. Decryption was also made more difficult by the fact that initially only the second ( The Second Stage Turbine Blade ) and third ( In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 ) part of the story were published. The cross-album concept should initially be called The.Bag.On.Line Adventures of Coheed and Cambria , but the comic adaptation was later published under the title The Amory Wars .
Discography
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Shabutie
- 1998 - Plan to Take Over the World ( EP , Wisteria Records )
- 1999 - Penelope (EP, Wisteria Records)
- 2000 - Delirium Trigger (EP, Wisteria Records)
- 2001 - The Coheed and Cambria (EP, Wisteria Records)
Coheed and Cambria
Studio albums
- 2002 - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
- 2003 - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
- 2005 - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (UK:
silver) - 2007 - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow
- 2010 - Year of the Black Rainbow
- 2012 - The Afterman: Ascension
- 2013 - The Afterman: Descension
- 2015 - The Color Before the Sun
- 2018 - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
Live albums
- 2004 - Live at La Zona Rosa (Columbia / Sony)
- 2005 - Live at the Avalon (Equal Vision Records / Columbia / Sony)
- 2006 - Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions (exclusively for iTunes USA and UK )
Singles and EPs
- 2003 - Devil in Jersey City (Equal Vision Records)
- 2003 - A Favor House Atlantic (Equal Vision Records / Columbia / Sony)
- 2004 - Blood Red Summer (Equal Vision Records / Columbia / Sony)
- 2005 - Welcome Home (Equal Vision Records / Columbia / Sony)
- 2005 - The Suffering (Equal Vision Records / Columbia / Sony)
- 2006 - Ten Speed (of God's Blood & Burial) (Equal Vision Records / Columbia / Sony)
- 2007 - The Running Free
- 2008 - Feathers
- 2009 - Neverender 12% (exclusively for the American chain Hot Topic)
Compilations
- 2015 - The Essential
Video albums
- 2005 - Live at the Starland Ballroom (Columbia / Sony, incl.audio CD; US:
gold) - 2006 - The Last Supper: Live at the Hammerstein Ballroom (Columbia / Sony)
- 2009 - Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition (Columbia / Sony, as a double DVD or as a set of five DVDs and four CDs; US:gold)
Side projects
- The Prize Fighter Inferno : Side project by singer Claudio Sanchez. The lyrics of the first album My Brother's Blood Machine are thematically linked to those of its main band and deal with the story of Coheed and Cambria.
- Fire Deuce : guitarist Travis Stever's side project.
- Davenport Cabinet : guitarist Travis Stever's side project.
- Weerd Science : Side project of drummer Joshua Eppard
Web links
- Official website ( English , Flash plugin required)
- Coheed and Cambria at laut.de
- Coheed and Cambria at Discogs (English)