“Coheed are making more than music: we’re creating a culture.” If any musician other than Claudio Sanchez said that in an interview, it’d rightfully get dismissed as self-aggrandising bullshit. However, in this one instance, the Coheed And Cambria frontman was bang on the money.
If you’re a fan of these New York comic geeks and their anthemic fusion of prog, pop and metal, you know that just listening to the music doesn’t cut it. Every Coheed album (bar 2015’s The Color Before The Sun) is a wormhole into a sci-fi mythos called The Amory Wars: a universe that, much like those of Marvel and DC Comics, only grows more convoluted with each instalment. There’s a tie-in graphic novel series dedicated to making it make sense and unending rumours of a movie adaptation. It’s proper nerd shit.
