Coheed & Cambria Band • Page 80

I'm 14 years old. In a high school class we have to write our favorite song down. I write Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth. The words get smaller and smaller at the edge of the page. Everyone else writes Sugar Were Going Down, Gold Digger, or My Humps. I am a god.

 

I should break out my We Tour Together DVD, I watched that so many times when the Afterman came out

 

The Guitar Center session are still so solid. One of my favorite recordings of "Everything Evil."

 

Listen to junesong provision and tell me how a band so young can be that good

 

The biggest “they were HOW young when they wrote this?” for me will always be the members of Protest the Hero being in their teens when they wrote Kezia.

 

Kezia is a great album

 

Not to derail but if you've lost touch with Protest the Hero at all, the song "All Hands" from their album Palimpsest last year is as good as they've ever sounded, absolutely massive track

 

I really dig the first album or so, but...I kinda don't like the more progy shit which is...weird, I think?

 

Obviously I dig it because of my avatar, but that album is probably the catchiest they've ever sounded. Most of their "progginess" comes from slightly off kilter time signatures and crazy riffs, but structurally on that album they're fairly straight forward verse chorus verse bridge chorus.

 

Yeah it's definitely straight forward but it works in the albums favor. I just dig that more...post-hardcore? Emo? Sound and structure.

Still have a hard time getting past the voice though. Not that it's bad! Just not my thing.

 

Been listening through Coheed's discography the past few days and yeah, I still think NWFT is their weakest album by a wide margin. It's genuinely the only one I don't even enjoy listening to and when they start going "hail" for 2 minutes on On the Brink it's like nails on a chalkboard for me. Feathers is fun at least. Still think they're one of the best bands out there though.

 

I remember being a freshman in highschool when that album came out and listening to it cuz a girl I had a crush on loved the album. I really like The Running Free but even now, I think that song is kinda meh, like the rest of the album

 

Without fail, whenever I listen to this song I walk around all day screaming “All hands! all hands! My train is coming in!”

Much to the dismay of my friends and family.

 

Yeah that album lumped them in more with the Chiodos/Dance Gavin Dance's of the world more than the prog metal they get compared to now. I think the energy matched post hardcore and Moe was rocking some punk drum patterns majority of the time, so it was definitely a different feel from where they went after that.

 

Yeah, it is way easier to pick their worst LP than it is their best. YOTBR had its issues but "nails on chalkboard" describes most of NWFT for me.

 

NWFT is pretty meh overall but counterpoint: the four-song stretch of "The Hound," "Feathers," "The Running Free" and "Mother Superior" is super strong.

 

the title track of NWFT is like my favorite coheed song ever tho

 

That riff is absolutely inhuman and is pretty hard to play, but also super fun

RAISE YOUR HANDS HIGH

 

And the way he sings “young brothers and siiiiiisters”

 

I’ve been trying to learn that riff for what, 14 years? and the timing of it completely eludes me lol

 

They just have such a penchant for those long, stage setting early tracks that take you on a journey. In keeping secrets of silent earth, welcome home, no world for tomorrow, domino, the dark sentencer

 

Lmao I’m in the same boat. Watched tutorials, slowed it by .25x…still nothing lol

and he sings while playing it too

 

I think I learned long ago that Claudio is not a human

 

No World for Tomorrow, The Hound of Blood and Rank, and Feathers are all-star level Coheed, but for me the rest of the album is not as strong

I've always thought The Running Free was an atrocious single choice, but I played NHL 09 for so many years that its embedded in my skull anyway

 

NWFT riff is crazy, and the bridge is unreal. Really wore the metal influence on the sleeve for that song and I love it so much for it.