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Since 2001 the band has been consistently keeping its fans entertained with more than just music. They\u2019ve created their own fictional universe, where they are the heroes.<\/p>\n
The group just released its seventh album, \u201cThe Afterman: Descension,\u201d which was out Feb. 5. The release is \u201cpart two\u201d of a double album; the first installment, \u201cThe Afterman: Ascension,\u201d was released in October 2012.<\/p>\n
What makes this double album so different from your standard rock fare that most bands push out, is it ties into their career-spanning Amory Wars saga, a mythical, science-fiction comic book written by lead singer Claudio Sanchez. In part, the story is about an energy force leading to wars between a collection of fictional planets.<\/p>\n
Each album\u2019s songs and lyrics tie in to this larger story, with \u201cDescension\u201d serving as a prequel of sorts that tells the back-story on this fictional war.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s actually an introduction to the whole mythos of Coheed and Cambria. In a way it\u2019s outside of it, but it\u2019s almost a prequel to this whole world that we have created,\u201d said guitarist and backup singer Travis Stever. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to know the whole back story of our albums to enjoy the music. I find that most people, when they become a fan of the band, they get into the concept eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n
The band has undergone several name changes, and lost and added a few members along the way, but the constant remains with founding members Sanchez and Stever. Both take on guitar duties, and Sanchez serves as lead singer and songwriter. Josh Eppard on drums and Zach Cooper on bass round out the band.<\/p>\n
\u201cClaudio writes songs about actual real life experiences, so it goes beyond the concept to something that anyone can relate to, whether they know our music or not,\u201d Stever said. \u201cThis album deals with a lot of things that we deal with day to day, questioning religion, questioning the unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n
The creation of Coheed and Cambria was a long and winding road. Stever and Sanchez played in a variety of bands during the 1990s, and formed the group that would become Coheed in 1995.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe grew up around people that really appreciated music. It\u2019s very diverse living in the New York area, so being around so many different types of music, and also all of us having parents that were musicians and music enthusiasts, gave us a great blend of styles and a real hunger for music,\u201d Stever said.<\/p>\n
It was during a 1998 trip to Paris that they decided to rename themselves Coheed and Cambria, after two of the main characters in Sanchez\u2019s side project.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re a multi-dimensional rock band,\u201d Stever said. \u201cI know that people want to make it simple and try to describe it as one thing, but we\u2019re really a big mix.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Afterman: Descension\u201d is available in stores, including a special deluxe addition with a 64-page storybook that features lyrics and art from both \u201cAscension\u201d and \u201cDescension,\u201d and a deluxe addition available on iTunes that features three unreleased tracks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of elements from our prior albums that are still there, but it\u2019s kind of like a brand new Coheed in the sense that we got to move in a different direction,\u201d Stever said. \u201cI feel like the band\u2019s been a rolling ball, collecting all these sounds over the years, and \u2018Afterman\u2019 is the sum of all those parts.\u201d<\/p>\n
See Coheed and Cambria live at the House of Blues on Feb. 25, with opening sets by Russian Circles and Between the Buried and Me. The show is sponsored by the Casbah, House of Blues and 91X. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the House of Blues is located at 1055 Fifth Ave., Downtown. Tickets start at $29.50. For more information visit coheedandcambria.com<\/a> or call 619-299-2583.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Progressive rock gods give the lowdown on the mythical story behind their latest album By Logan Broyles | SDUN Reporter Most bands have trouble putting together even a single successful album with a set of songs that tie in with each other, which is what makes a band like Coheed and Cambria so unique and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":245822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"The Coheed and Cambria mythos","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}