Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV

[inkjet1987]

Coheed and Cambria have put up a song from their upcoming album HERE . They have taken a very much more metal approach with this new stuff it seems, and I like it alot. If the entire album is similar to this song, I will definately be purchasing. And of course Claudio still owns.

[ShiroiHikari]

Be careful, childrens, there's an effword in that song. Nevertheless, it's freaking INCREDIBLE and I can't wait for the new album.

<3 <3 Claudio.

[inkjet1987]

Be careful, childrens, there's an effword in that song. Nevertheless, it's freaking INCREDIBLE and I can't wait for the new album.

<3 <3 Claudio.

Oh, sorry about that. I didnt notice it at all.

[Stephen]

I was gonna say, if Shihi hits this thread shes gonna post...but you beat me to it. XD I wonder if a certain Kkun has already heard this as well?

[Kkun]

While I was disappointed by the use of the F-word (ask ShiHi, I was um. Angry. For about three hours.), I still think that Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One - Fear From Through the Eyes of Madness is going to be a great CD. If "Welcome Home" is any indication then their guitar work is going to be brilliant.

[Nate]

I totally agree. Jamie linked me to this song and it rocks hardcore. One of the best songs I've heard in ages.

Can't wait for the album.

[Kkun]

Okay, so, some new info on the CD. The final track list is out. The CD WILL be Parental Advisory, though after reading the leaked lyrics to 7 of the 15 tracks, it's not so bad. At my count, there was only one F word and one S word, which is doing pretty well for a Parental Advisory CD. We'll see with the other 8 tracks, but I don't think it'll get much worse than that. What probably adds to the album being stickered is that there's some mild nudity in the painting on the cover for the actual CD but it's no worse than a painting you'd see in a museum and is not sexual. Anyway, enough of that stuff. Anyone who cares about this probably just wants the track list.

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One - From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

1. Keeping The Blade
2. Always & Never
3. Welcome Home
4. Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)
5. Crossing The Frame
6. Apollo I : The Writing Writer
7. Once Upon Your Dead Body
8. Wake Up
9. The Suffering
10. The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
11. Mother May I
12. The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End
13. The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
14. The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
15. The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

[ShiroiHikari]

Aghhh! I can't wait to buy this. All you Texas people, CoCa is gonna be in Dallas on October 25 and I'm gonna break my neck to get there. *fangirl spaz*

[umathurmanlover]

i love it, been listening to it since they posted it..that song is so epic...anyone gonna catch them on tour with mewithoutyou/blood brothers/dredge? I love all four of those bands, esp. blood brothers...definately buying ticks for that....c&c owns.

[Kkun]

I'm not a Dredg fan, but I dearly love mewithoutYou, really really like Coheed, and I can dig several of the Blood Brothers songs (Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck and Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon for instance). In short, there is not a force on earth that will stop me from being at that show.

[ShiroiHikari]

I'm going to the show in Dallas if it kills me. I like mewithoutyou as well, so yay.

[ShiroiHikari]

Hey guys, a friend sent me an Mp3 of The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness if anyone wants me to upload it. It's pretty awesome...some of the best musical irony I've ever heard XD The vocals sound freaking awesome too.

There's an s-word in it, and talk of burning in hell, though, so be warned. ^^;

[Kkun]

If you can look past the s-word, people, The Willing Well is FANTASTIC. Oh man, it's just so good. "Run, little rabbit, go hide in the blades of the grass. Run, rabbit, run."

[Kkun]

Coheed has posted a new song on their PureVolume. This one is called "The Suffering". It's QUITE good. It's more of a straight-forward rock song than a metal epic like "Welcome Home".This CD is going to be great. 20 days and counting.

purevolume | Coheed and Cambria

[ShiroiHikari]

YES. Go listen to The Suffering. It's fan-freaking-tastic.

[xCAFx]

I'm not up to date on Coheed and Cambria, but i heard the (1st) song on thier Myspace and thought it was good. I'm not sure I understand the story thing. And how many albums does this make for them?

[xCAFx]

Oh yeah it comes out tommorow then,cool.(I'm listening to "Welcome Home" as i type and it is awesome!!!)

[Kkun]

I'm not up to date on Coheed and Cambria, but i heard the (1st) song on thier Myspace and thought it was good. I'm not sure I understand the story thing. And how many albums does this make for them?

This will be their third studio album, and they also have a live album.

I'm not going to say "GO OUT AND BUY THEIR RECORDS" because they do have some spotty language occasionally, as well as violent themes. Also, for fair warning, their newest CD is going to be Parental Advisory with the labels "Strong Language" and "Violent Content" underneath (this doesn't mean it's worse than any other Parental Advisory CD. Actually, on the contrary: it's quite tame for most PA CDs, after reading the lyrics).

However, now that you've asked about the story..

All of their albums connect the tragic tale of the Kilgannon family. The first album, the second part of the story, The Second Stage Turbine Blade chronicles the deaths of Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon. Coheed and Cambria were a part of a special defense force known as the KBI(the Knowledge, the Beast, the Inferno) along with Coheed's brother Jessie (aka The Prize-Fighter Inferno). Somewhere in the events of "The Bag On Line Adventures of Coheed and Cambria", Coheed is injected with a virus by Wilhelm Ryan through a dragonfly imbued with the Ciache, a serum that will awaken the Monstar growing inside Coheed. The Monstar has the power to destroy the Keywork and the Stars of Sirius. The Keywork is the universe as they know it, a system of 78 planets surrounded by the Stars of Sirius, which connect in a triangle to keep the system of planets in alignment. If they fell out of alignment, they would go crashing into it and the Keywork would fall apart. SSTB tells how the Monstar awakens inside Coheed, the rampage he goes on, the deaths of his wife, daughters Maria and Josephine, and son Matthew. The only remaining son of Coheed and Cambria after Coheed's death is Claudio, who barely escaped this onslaught.

Claudio setting out on his own is where the second album and third part of the story, "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" takes place. In this album, a great war occurs in a premonition that happens at the end of Second Stage (a dream happens in the song "Neverender" and then the song "God Send Conspirator" is a song about Wilhelm Ryan's disdain for Mariah, a great leader of the Mages who is plotting rebellion against him...IKSSE:3 picks up right where Neverender left off). Basically, the Keywork begins to unravel and Wilhelm Ryan's plans start to come to fruition. Elsewhere in the story, Claudio's true power as the savior of the Keywork, The Crowing, come into play. His full power is never really expressed at this point, though we know that he is powerful. Claudio's love, Newo Ikkin, is taken by a man named Al, in a series of songs called The Camper Velourium (there are 3 parts to this series, I: Faint of Hearts, II: The Backend of Forever, and III: Al the Killer). Al is a psychopath and Claudio has to save Newo through the end of the CD. At the end of The Light and the Glass, and then in 2113, the dream that took place at the beginning of the album quickly turns into a nightmare as certain characters die...

Good Apollo: I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One - From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is the first part of a two part story, the "final cut" of the Coheed and Cambria tale. The newest album is the beginning of the end. For the first part, it steps outside of the story and we see how the events in the writer's life will affect the story. Then, the story itself picks back up in a four part movement called The Willing Well (I: Fuel For the Feeding End, II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth, and IV: The Final Cut).

It's all much more involved than that but that's basically the jist of it. It's quite interesting. None of what I said is gospel, and shouldn't be taken as such. It's merely my take on the story.

[Locke]

Wow, and here i thought they were just doing the long names for fun >.<

[xCAFx]

WOW thats involved(or comlpex)! So..all this is portrayed through the songs? I think that sounds awesome.

[Kkun]

Yeah, all of that is pretty much portrayed in the songs, and there are comic books, too.

I haven't gotten Good Apollo yet. It looks good, if you like Coheed. Very, very dark from the lyrics, but still pretty good. I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow at Best Buy where I can get it for cheap.

[Kkun]

Okay, so who got it?

Like I said, because of the Parental Advisory rating and some of the intense violent imagery, I won't be recommending it and saying "GO GET IT" but if anyone already bought it, I want to discuss. Anyone? Anyone?

I bought it and I am thoroughly pleased. The guitar solos on IV: The Final Cut are just fantastic. Also, isn't Keeping the Blade/Always & Never just beautiful? Then, uh, one more. Oh yeah, Crossing the Frame's intro sounds like Mega Man-goes-rock-n'-roll music. I approve. XD

I think the speaking parts during Ten Speed and Apollo I: The Writing Writer are really interesting. I love the last line of the spoken part of Ten Speed where he's talking about (I think) Ten Speed telling him to kill off characters in the story, and he goes "Now, how's that work, YOU'RE A BICYCLE!"

I dig this album. Others must discuss!

[Nate]

Man, Keeping the Blade TOTALLY freakin' rocks, and Always & Never is awesome too. I still think Welcome Home is my favorite song, but Ten Speed comes in a close second...okay, a tie between Ten Speed and The Final Cut.

I am liking this album quite much.