Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (October 5, 2018) Album • Page 38

The guitar in the second verse of Lucky Stars is beautiful

 

i think IKS is still my favorite overall, SSTB, GA1, and (probably an unpopular opinion) The Afterman (as a whole, i kinda see them both as one album) could honestly all be tied in second place. coheed is a hard band to rate and every album has at least a few top tier songs on it. but this new album is right up there, it's definitely their best and most cohesive work since GA1. time will tell to see if it can grow even further, i'm excited to see how a lot of these songs will translate live!

 

no world for tomorrow is hands down my favorite coheed track

 

The main riff still blows my mind

 

mother superior, running free (fight me), feathers, gravemakers and gunslingers, justice in murder, the road and the damned, i mean cmon the albums stacked. THE END COMPLETE

 

Hound of blood and rank goes way too hard. NWFT is really really great.

 

Here We are juggernaut lowkey might be in my top 15 from these guys

 

Hell, Radio Bye Bye has a stupid catchy riff too. One of their most fun to play.

 

Justice in Murder is towards the bottom of this band's output for me (Radio Bye Bye too) but yeah that album is wall to wall bangers otherwise

MARCH TO THE DRUMMING
SHOW THEM YOU'RE COMING

 

honestly i dont dislike any song on the record

 

indisputably one of their best choruses (and this band has a fucking lot of great choruses)

 

Me neither. I remember being slightly disappointed with the climax of the final track way back in ‘07 but I love it now. It’s the perfect 80s influenced arena rock/hard rock/prog record with the perfect amount of cheese.

 

ive always been on board since day one. i remember hearing it when i was 15, i was super into shit like avenged sevenfold at the time so flashy progressive pop metal was kind of exactly what i loved

 

Pavilion is basically a Train song

I don’t really mind

 

can you believe claudio sings while playing that?

also, the way the bass and lead guitar work with/around that riff is mindblowing. prog at it's finest.

 

Nwft>welcome home? Or at least =?

 

Ill tell ya this riff for The Dark Sentencer is starting to rival those

 

I respect there's a contingent of their fans that are really into NWFT. But not only do I truly dislike it as a record; it also seems to define exactly what the problem is (for me) with their post-GA1 career as a whole. I'd summarize it as trading off epic-ness for fluffy/syrupy feelgood fare, even though it's more nuanced than that (like, there were plenty of pre-NWFT songs with a syrupy sheen, but there was almost always a lot more beneath). Thankfully, a lot of those tendencies only make sporadic appearances on subsequent records, but they're frustrating.

Considering the first 3 records have over 90% of the votes in the poll on the front page, then it drops off to 0 for NWFT, I kinda feel like I'm onto something

 

I’m certainly not a big sci-fi fan so take this how you like...

But just imagine yourself at the pub/bar with an old friend you haven’t seen in years.

They ask what you’ve been up to and you say “just writing a story for lots of different media”.

“Oh cool! What’s it about??”

And you reply...

 

Dark Sentencer is still my favorite on this. Just absolute top tier Coheed in every way. 2nd place goes to The Gutter.

 

I can't imagine people who waited to hear The Dark Sentencer for their first listen of the album.

 

I mean you’re only allowed to vote for one record. Obviously IKS, GA1, and SSTB are gonna pull in the most votes. I couldn’t vote for NWFT because I like IKS more. That doesn’t make NWFT a bad record

 

NWFT wears their classic rock influences on it's sleeve more than any of their other records, so if you don't like them playing that style, I totally get why you wouldn't like NWFT. But yeah, the title track is a top 5 Coheed song, and my go to song to introduce people to the band if they like heavier music.

 

I still think the guitar bends in the chorus of "The Gutter" are my favorite parts of this record.

 

I went from feeling really bummed that I didn't order the deluxe bundle to feeling bummed that this isn't clicking for me right away, especially since it seems I'm in the minority in that regard. I might just need more listens, but right now it's kind of all blending together, save for the first couple of pre-release singles which are my favorite tracks at this point. Maybe it has something to do with how so many of the songs are similar length and tempo, but I feel like the choruses aren't grabbing me the way many of their older songs did.