17: 26 - Take (co)Heed of C&C's new album

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Written by: Prodigy

Again I ask forgiveness for that horribly last minute attempt at a witty title but I thought 'album review' would be too bland and so here is my first of non game (*cough*Halo 3*cough*) related posts. Oh and on that post about the Halo 3 story I'm still completing the game on all modes, as certain aspects differ in normal, heroic and legendary, or so I'm aware. However, I can make you aware that I am not going to be singing all praises for the Halo 3 story, that much is verily true.

The mood is quite different for this post though. Coheed and Cambria are a moderately successful progressive rock group that usually produce diverse and imaginative pieces of music, especially in the sense that all the songs they produce are geared towards the lead singers self developed concept comic, a sci-fi fantasy epic known as the Amory Wars. I would provide some background information on this but as most people know little of the music, let alone the Amory Wars, it's best I keep it musical. Feel free to Google it if you feel inquisitive.

Anyway, continuing and concluding the Amory Wars series of albums is the latest addition 'New World For Tomorrow'. Successor to 'From Fear..', this album had a real task in building on its predecessor with such songs as 'Ten Speed', 'Welcome Home' and 'The Suffering', but it seems after a few listens that it does so, sounding just as creative and in a way more 'epic' than 'From Fear' did.

With this album its half progressive and half rock. The progressive is indefinitely present but with not as much prominence as in earlier albums. This lack of progressive influence can be clearly seen in songs like 'Gravemakers and Gunslingers' which thought isn't as progressive, is in my view one of the best, if not, the best song on the album currently. Fast, frenetic yet creative, showing Coheed aren't just a one tune band if that wasn't known already. Then there are the ingenuitive whirling riffs of 'The Running Free', the bizarre time signatures helping to provide it with real drive. Other brilliant tracks include the harmonious blend of emotive lyrics and varying instrumental music that is 'Mother Superior', the catchy radio friendly tune of 'The End Complete II-Radio Bye Bye' and the closest thing to a progressive power ballad yet in 'The End Complete IV:The Road and the Damned'.

In essence, where so many albums slip up with succeeding albums Coheed have done this one excellently, the inspired songs make 'No World For Tomorrow' a worthy conclusion to the Amory Wars saga.

You MUST buy this album....its different but worth it. 4.5/5.

Labels: Album Review, Amory Wars, Coheed and Cambria, From Fear Through the eyes of madness, Good Apollo, music, music review, No world for tomorrow, Review

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