This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. 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. Expand - View Original
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
The first two minutes are fucking stupid, but holy shit, this sounds like Coheed from fifteen years ago.
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
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
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
No, but thank you for actually making a real response, this a Good Apollo aping moment....much desired/welcome
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.
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!!!