In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

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In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Studio album by Coheed and Cambria

Publication
(s)

October 7, 2003

Label (s) Equal Vision Records

Columbia Records

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

12

running time

69:24

occupation
  • Guitar: Travis Stever
  • Bass : Michael Todd

production

Chris Bittner and Michael Birnbaum

Studio (s)

Applehead Recording, Woodstock

chronology
The Second Stage Turbine Blade
(2002) 		In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
(2005)

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 is the second studio album by the American progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria . It tells the third part of the band concept The Amory Wars and was released in October 2003 by Equal Vision Records and Columbia Records .

Creation and publication

The debut album The Second Stage Turbine Blade was followed by numerous concerts in the USA. The second album was recorded in Woodstock, New York . Danny Louis (keyboard), Avalon Peacock, Julia Nichols and Rachel Havens (all vocals) were involved as guest musicians. From May 2010 the third part of the science fiction saga The Amory Wars, which was set to music on the album, was published as a comic series .

Track list

  1. The Ring in Return - 2:07
  2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - 8:14
  3. Cuts Marked in the March of Men - 5:01
  4. Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow) - 5:09
  5. The Crowing - 6:36
  6. Blood Red Summer - 4:05
  7. The Camper Velourium I: Faint of Hearts - 5:21
  8. The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever - 5:23
  9. The Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer - 4:15
  10. A Favor House Atlantic - 3:55
  11. The Light & The Glass - 9:39
  13. 21:13 - 9:47

The three parts of The Camper Velourium were called The Velourium Camper on the first press .

style

Coheed and Cambria play modern and straightforward progressive rock on the album with influences from glam rock , hard rock and heavy metal of the 1970s as well as modern varieties of alternative rock , progressive metal , emo and post-hardcore . Comparisons are occasionally made to bands like Queen , T. Rex , The Cars , Thin Lizzy , Rush , Jets to Brazil and The Mars Volta . The melodies are catchy and often have pop appeal, the vocals are high-pitched.

reception

The album was positively received by the press, reached number 52 in the US charts and was awarded a gold record by the RIAA . Allmusic's David Serra criticizes that the band missed their goal of creating an epic album. Christian Rode from Babyblauen Seiten , however, thinks that "[t] he disc rocks absolutely cool" and has "nothing to complain about". Peter Kubaschk from powermetal.de recommends In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 “simply to all friends of new, exciting albums that are progressive in the true sense of the word and something really new. And they should soon be captured by the fascination of this album. Great. ” Eclipsed magazine added the album to their list of prog metal milestones.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Coheed And Cambria. In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Coheed and Cambria. In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 , Rock Hard # 206, accessed December 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b David Serra: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 at Allmusic (English), accessed on December 22, 2012.
  4. ↑ In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed and Cambria , billboard.com , accessed December 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ Peter Kubaschk: Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 , powermetal.de , accessed on December 22, 2012.
  6. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.