Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe (March 14, 2025) Album • Page 3

Diggin this single. Miles better than blind side sonny. Cant wait for the album.........in March.

 

New song is great by late Coheed standards, but I'm worried production may hold this record back even with more great songs. Def has that same very digital, thin sounding mix as Vax2, but maybe even more extreme this time?

 

It’s so hard to believe this is already album 11. Wild. My favorite band for sure, and I’m so glad they still keep coming back and blowing me away

 

I agree with the production. I can overlook it because I dig the song, but yea, I wish they would go away from this producer

 

me over here thinking their last album sounds the best out of all of them and love their producer choice

 

I agree.

 

HERE for it. Enjoy this much more than blind side sonny

 

me any time coheed puts out music and the inevitable production convos start up

 

On my fifth listen and I have the biggest smile on my face. The lead guitar climbs are so classical-influenced and the bridge gooooooes. This song is going to be massive live.

 

Thank you Qobuz, found the runtimes.

1. Yesterday's Lost (3:24)
2. Goodbye, Sunshine (4:16)
3. Searching For Tomorrow (3:33)
4. The Father of Make Believe (4:39)
5. Meri of Mercy (4:16)
6. Blind Side Sonny (2:22)
7. Play The Poet (3:29)
8. One Last Miracle (3:12)
9. Corner My Confidence (4:04)
10. Someone Who Can (3:45)
11. The Continuum I: Welcome to Forever, Mr. Nobody (3:43)
12. The Continuum II: The Flood (6:23)
13. The Continuum III: Tethered Together (4:36)
14. The Continuum IV: So It Goes (5:45)

57:27 total

 

These are both a lot of fun. Vaxis II connected with me more than anything else they've put out in a long time, so I'm excited for the follow up.

 

Cervini's production isn't my favorite. Drums feel slightly overcompressed, it's not my favorite digital sounding guitar tone, but it's fine.

What I DO love though is it seems like him and Claudio really work well together. This streamlined, in your face Coheed that still retains the Coheed DNA seems to have really breathed new life into them at this stage in their career, so if working with Zakk is what they need to do to keep things moving along, I'm cool with it.

 

Also, a plug: my most listened to band since 2020 is Caligula's Horse. They put out an album this year called Charcoal Grace that I think Coheed fans would like. Starts with a big 10-minute-long opener, has some catchy shorter tracks, a middle of the album song suite, and an epic closer. Pretty shreddy progmetal with minimal harsh vocals and a pretty unique and talented singer.

 

Jimmy Eat World

If you’d have told me in 2004 that 20 years later we’d still be getting bigger and better music from both - I didn’t think either band would even be around 20 years later

 

funny to say that it’s shorter than I expected at almost an hour but here we are

 

**Queue arguments about appropriate album lengths**

 

I love it at 14 songs, 57 minutes. I love each song on Vaxis I, but it was too long. This feels similarly paced as Vaxis II just basing off the songs we have so far and the lengths, and I loved the flow of Vaxis II.

 

Searching for Tomorrow on repeat all afternoon, fucking hell this is great.

 

I just happy to see a 6+ track

 

No one does it quite like Coheed

 

This slaps. Starting to skim their discog now.

Not to derail the thread, but I'm quickly getting the vibe I'll dig their instrumentals but the bland/weak vocals may be a sore spot. It's so funny they're Australian too, cause I had the exact same conundrum with Karnivool and Dead Letter Circus (maybe a few others in that scene?) back in the late 00s and early 10s.

 

Doing an afterman run now. Love these albums

 

Ah man, I love the singer's voice a ton, but it's hard for me to remember what my first impression was. I would recommend The Stormchaser off the newest album for what I think is one of his better vocal performances. If you aren't fully sold after that it might be for you. The instrumentals are wild though. I would probably still love the band without a singer.

There's a lot of progmetal bands where I love the instruments but I really have an adjustment period with the singers. Haken and Leprous were two that I had to get adjusted to recently, but I love them now. To bring it full circle, Coheed was one of the first bands where that happened to me.

 

blind side sonny sounds like something that would be on danger days. searching rocks hard

 

I already like Sonny more listening to both songs back-to-back a couple times