wow. That was great. I really like the production this time around, I hope it's consistent throughout the album. I wonder if we'll get an album release date soon.
Man a 10 minute coheed song is EXACTLY what I was hoping for. Denser than a lot of the things they write, so I'll need to listen a couple times to fully get it. But I really like the path they're going for this
it's fantastic. i love that they've already given us a bunch of lore for this era between the writeup and the prologue of the track, band gets me.
I feel like this album is going to VERY MUCH in your face scifi. I don't know if you can separate the music from the story much for this one, haha.
man this song fucking GROOOOOOOOOOOOVES THE RIFFS ARE BACK so glad they made color before the sun , I feel like retrospectively we're going to say they needed to make that album to get re-energized
"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."
I love how the repeats of "Welcome Home" make it simultaneously feel like a callback AND that we are being welcomed back into the Amory Wars universe. This was everything I could have hoped for.