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Year of the Black Rainbow (Deluxe Version)

Coheed and Cambria

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Year of the Black Rainbow serves as a concluding prequel to The Armory Wars, both a comic-book saga and a five-volume conceptual album series birthed by Coheed and Cambria’s frontman Claudio Sanchez. But enthusiasm for the sci-fi workings of Sanchez’s fantastical chronicles is not a prerequisite to enjoying the monolithic music contained within. The instrumental “One” sets the stage with stark eye-of-the-storm atmospheres while tension subtly swells until “The Broken” bursts through the calm with chaotic aplomb as it throws the listener in the middle of an intergalactic battle. Coheed and Cambria narrate this war with dramatic and progressive rock underscored by drummer Chris Pennie’s unpredictable rhythms that approximate cannon blasts one moment and rapid artillery fire the next. The triumphant-sounding “Here We Are Juggernaut” gets anthemic in the ascending chorus as Sanchez’s singing soars skyward to combat the emotions and repercussions of his protagonist’s forbidden love.

Customer Reviews

WOOOO!! COHEED!

S I M P L Y A M A Z I N G!!! love the new album its a little differnt from previous coheed albums but still sick. theres more of a Prize Fighter Inferno Vibe to tracks FAR and PEARL OF THE STARS. cant wait to see 'em again in may. < 5 STARS!!! >

Amazing Album!!!!!!!

I've been waiting for this album to come out!! Coheed and Cambria has another awesome album. Sick Songs!!!! 5 Stars!!!!!

Amazing.

At first, I had incredibly high hopes for this album, so my first listen I was kind of let down, that's not the band's fault, it's my own. I had only previously heard "The Broken" and "Here We Are Juggernaut" from Coheed's website before the album came out, and I had fallen in love with those two songs instantaneously, so I thought the same would happen with the rest of the album.

Needless to say, it took me a few listens to get into the new songs, they seemed noisy at first, but that's just a passing glance. Once I got past my initial distaste and actually listened to the songs in depth, over and over, it quickly rose to the top of the "Favorite Albums of All Time" list in my head.

Ranking against the other four Coheed albums, I'd say this one comes in a close second to In Keeping Secrets, but that's just for me personally. It's an amazing album and has some incredible emotion and instrumentation throughout it. The one thing I'd prefer is if they would've swapped "When Skeletons Live" for "Chamberlain" the reasoning behind cutting "Chamberlain" was just stupid and it sounded more like it belonged with the album's track listing than "Skeletons" did.

Biography

Formed: 2001 in Nyack, NY

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Although originally forming as a rock trio in 1995, New York's Coheed and Cambria officially took root in 2001, shedding their former name of Shabutie and embracing a fusion of progressive rock, emocore, and highly conceptual album themes. Vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Michael Todd, and drummer Joshua Eppard issued their group's full-length debut, 2002's The Second Stage Turbine Blade, on the Albany-based Equal Vision Records. The band toured extensively for...
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