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Coheed and Cambria – “The Dark Sentencer”

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  1. Melody Bot May 31, 2018
    Melody Bot

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    Coheed and Cambria have released their new song “The Dark Sentencer.” You can read the full press release below.

    Roadrunner Records group Coheed and Cambria have shared a brand-new track titled “The Dark Sentencer.” The song, which will appear on Coheed and Cambria’s forthcoming LP expected to arrive later this year, is the first new music to be released by the band since their acclaimed 2015 LP, The Color Before The Sun.
    “The Dark Sentencer,” a 10-minute prog manifesto, first appeared this morning on frontman Claudio Sanchez’s socials along with the opening paragraphs from his new concept story which will accompany the upcoming record. It reads:

    Years ago, chaos cut through this atmosphere. The fractured worlds that inhabit this space were once locked in a force of uncontrollable destruction. Gravity was lost. Their planetary trajectories conjoined in one catastrophic collision, choking to remain viable even as the dying glow of their cores peek through the cracks and scars of those impactful moments. Yet a gasp is a sign of life and the planets that many might have cast off as annihilated space continued to show a pulse across the hopelessness. This discarded earth is still very much alive…and made profitable by the 5 Houses of the Star Supremacy, an elite society who looked to the sky and saw potential in the wasted planets. The opportunistic approach could hardly be considered an act of empathy for the human condition, as the decision to convert the dying planets into private prisons meant another type of life sentence awaited those shipped off to their remote reaches. Here, the desolate and derelict would burn away slowly, trapped in a race to death with the very ground they stand on. In this space, between the Well and unknowing.

    Our Story Starts there. Into our future, yet far beyond our past. In a romance between a pair of Unheavenly Creatures.

    Weaving through the blacked out space toward the freckling of cracked planets, The Gavel moved like a funeral procession. In many ways, it was the end of life for the two prisoners being transported within its unmitigable walls, to the most deplorable and prized of the doomed prisons, known simply as The Dark Sentencer.

    Having announced their signing to Roadrunner Records earlier this year in a shadowy video clip, Coheed and Cambria have been finishing up work on their forthcoming label debut. Comprised of Claudio Sanchez (Vocals / Guitar), Travis Stever (Guitar), Josh Eppard (Drums) and Zach Cooper (Bass), Coheed and Cambria has gripped listeners and press around the globe with their visionary compositions and conceptual mastery.

    This weekend, Coheed and Cambria will be one of several guest performers (including will.i.am, Grace Potter, Nick Sagan and more) to celebrate the 60th anniversary of NASA by joining the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. NSO Pops: Space, The Next Frontier is set to take place June 1st and 2nd and will feature music inspired by space—both fact and fiction—ranging from the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey—Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra—to music from Carl Sagan’s Golden Record and more. For tickets and more information, visit: www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/NSPSF

    This July Coheed and Cambria will set out on a U.S. co-headline mostly-outdoor tour with Taking Back Sunday and special guests The Story So Far. The 28-city U.S. tour, produced mostly by Live Nation, will begin on Friday, July 6th in Miami, FL and make stops in Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Austin, Denver, Las Vegas and more. The summer tour will culminate in a performance at Comerica Theatre in Phoenix, AZ on Sunday, August 12th (see attached itinerary). Tickets for all dates are on sale now.

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  2. Former Planets May 31, 2018
    Former Planets

    Aaaachem!

    That song is a lot.... don’t know if it’s a lot of good though....
     
  3. carlosonthedrums May 31, 2018
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    Cooler than a polar bear's toenails Prestigious

    I absolutely love it. Another masterpiece in the making.
     
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  4. Hunter Norman May 31, 2018
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    It's so fucking good, and that's not just because this is my favorite active band. The story, the music, the imagery........ This is going to be a fun ride
     
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  6. TJ Wells May 31, 2018
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    The first two minutes are fucking stupid, but holy shit, this sounds like Coheed from fifteen years ago.
     
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  7. Hunter Norman May 31, 2018
    Hunter Norman

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    The prologue? It sets up the story though, plus we get a new instrumental intro!
     
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  8. TJ Wells May 31, 2018
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    I have never and will never care about the story, and it's just really, really cheesy.
     
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  9. Stevangelion May 31, 2018
    Stevangelion

    We Can (Not) Make It Alone.

    Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck it's so good!!
     
  10. shogunTORTOISE May 31, 2018
    shogunTORTOISE

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    I couldn't get into their last album to save my life. I am digging this however.
     
  11. skoopy May 31, 2018
    skoopy

    Regular

    Every time around I give it another try and for the life of me cannot enjoy this group. So be it.
     
  12. Chase Tremaine May 31, 2018
    Chase Tremaine

    Albums/EPs for free/pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp Supporter

    Only C&C can pull off a press release as ridiculous and silly as this.
     
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  13. Hunter Norman May 31, 2018
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    I don't understand why everyone thinks it's ridiculous or cheesey. They've always had a story attached which has transformed into some really killer comics and graphic novels. Is it just the fact that it's a band that makes people think it's cheesey? I mean, it's Sci fi so it's supposed to have a slight cheese factor
     
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  15. jjnunn118 May 31, 2018
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    Signal Vs. Noise Prestigious

    Yeah this band has some solid stuff but I cant for the life of me get into the story, which then turns me off everything else.

    Enjoyed the last album because of the lack of concept
     
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  16. Zip It Chris May 31, 2018
    Zip It Chris

    Be kind; everyone is on their own journey.

    Fast Forward to 2:43 for actual music to start...
     
  17. Rob Reed Jun 1, 2018
    Rob Reed

    Newbie

    Couldn't get into the last record but I'm definitely feeling this. Return to form.
     
  18. KyleK Jun 1, 2018
    KyleK

    Let's get these people moving faster! Supporter

    And on Spotify it's broken into two tracks, the Prologue and The Dark Sentencer
     
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  19. xburningcoffin Jun 1, 2018
    xburningcoffin

    KC

    A Obligatory post saying I haven’t heard Coheed’s music before.

    B Obligatory post saying I never liked Coheed’s music

    C Obligatory post saying this song is amazing and classic Coheed.

    Correct answer is C and everyone else is ODD
     
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  20. Makoto Jun 1, 2018
    Makoto

    Monafide bonafide

    The actual song is pretty killer. Reminds me of a Willing Well song.
     
  21. xburningcoffin Jun 1, 2018
    xburningcoffin

    KC

    No, but thank you for actually making a real response, this a Good Apollo aping moment....much desired/welcome
     
  22. simonbelmont Jun 2, 2018
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    This is their best single song since IKSSE3, can't wait to see how this concept connects with Amory.
     
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  24. Makoto Jun 2, 2018
    Makoto

    Monafide bonafide

    Gravity's Union, Domino, Sentry, Willing Wells...
     
  25. simonbelmont Jun 3, 2018
    (Last edited: Jun 3, 2018)
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    Those are fantastic, but this one's superior and your list is way incomplete if we are talking great Coheed tunes too many to list really, don't confuse my praise of this song for neglect of their previous great works (of which there are many). For me personally, the bar was always IKSSE3 and some days Mother May I lol. I just feel like this track hits that bar maybe even surpasses it.

    I need to hear more of the album to decide that for sure and how this track fits into the concept overall. I wish the prelude wasn't so long, but I can't even really criticize that really until I hear the record and know how it all fits. I still stand by my praise of this song as the best single song since IKSSE3.

    I love all their albums including YOTBR which many considered a misstep, but I thought it was necessary to sound different given the different time period/character arcs. Just talking that album The Broken, Guns of Summer, Far, Made Out Of Nothing, and Pearl Of The Stars were all stand outs for me...I could go on and on and on.
     
  26. simonbelmont Jun 5, 2018
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    If anyone's still lurking around this thread, it seems Claudio did a radio interview with a ABC before performing for NASA's anniversary, and he said of the concept, it will be a pentalogy taking place after events of No World For Tomorrow!!! I'm so pumped!!!
     
  27. tenspeed Jun 6, 2018
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    Newbie

    I'm down for this
     
  28. MrCon Jun 8, 2018
    MrCon

    I was trying to describe myself to someone

    I like it. Didn't realise how much I'd missed them having a concept until I heard that.