For present Coheed and Cambria fans, or if you are brand new to their music, here is some good news: the band has put out their latest album, "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3."
Coheed and Cambria consists of Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer and guitarist, Travis Stever, guitarist, Michael Todd, bassist and Joshua Eppard, drums. The band is punk/rock, with a sci-fi twist. Aside from the usual guitars and drums, there are also different sound effects and noises in the background. Sanchez was interviewed by Blistering.com, a heavy metal and hard rock magazine. In the interview, Sanchez said, "We don't write songs to get girls or to write a song for Top 40 radio or something like that. We just come across as artists and we want to make things that challenge us and challenge the listener."
The band's music is what a listener might hear on The Point. Most of the songs average around four minutes. There are a couple of songs, however, that last close to ten minutes. The first track is not a song in the lyrical sense. A phone rings for twenty-five seconds, until a girl walks across the room and picks it up. Then there is just instrumental music, and then vocal harmonizing is added. The rest of the songs tie together to tell a story. According to the lead singer, the story is of a married couple, Coheed and Cambria. The couple is trying to save the universe. The overall story, which will be told on four CDs, will be called "The Bag Adventures."
However, all of the CDs are out of order. The first CD in the story will be the last of the four to come out. "I'd like the kids to listen to the record and come up with their own interpretations," Sanchez said in the Blistering interview. Sanchez is also collaborating with Wes Abbot, a comic book creator, to make a comic book on the story of Coheed and Cambria.
The band hails from upstate New York. They officially formed in 2001. The band has released one previous album, "Second Stage Turbine Blade," in 2002. That album was a huge underground success. The band has also been on tour, performing with The Used and Taking Back Sunday. They just finished a tour with Hopesfall.
When I first heard the CD, it was not something I had heard before. It was not the usual punk I was accustomed to. Once I learned the story behind the album and listened to the CD several more times, the music began to grow on me. The band lets listeners know that lyrics to song four, "Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)," are part of a story and should not be taken seriously. Some of the songs are morbid and a little melancholy. Although Sanchez's voice may not be what one expects when listening to a punk/rock album, his vocals are incredible. He is able to reach notes most males artists cannot. Although it was not what I am used to listening to, the CD was excellent.
"In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3" was released on Oct. 14 on Columbia Records. Aside from the melancholy and morbidity, the album is an excellent one.
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