Year Of The Black Rainbow

Coheed and Cambria\'s fifth album pairs the band\'s affinity for complex storylines with tight, sticky hooks, making for a compact, prog-fueled hard-rock supernova. Tentacle-like synths and spiderweb drums entangle on \"Guns of Summer,\" while on \"Here We Are Juggernaut,\" vocalist Claudio Sanchez wails conspiratorially over an avalanche of metallic riffs and seething keyboards. Even the LP\'s denser songs, like the vintage heavy-metal creeper \"In the Flame of Error,\" possess an accessible edge, welcoming listeners into their thrashing, expansive latticework.

Coheed And Cambria has always been remarkable for the extended science-fiction tale that runs through its albums, one that’s also manifested as the comic-book series The Amory Wars (written by Coheed’s leader, Claudio Sanchez). But the band’s fifth full-length, Year Of The Black Rainbow, has higher aspirations:…

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Disappointment that it is, the album still might have been saved from the outer limits of tedium were it not so mercilessly dreary.

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The growth of Coheed and Cambria since 2002’s Second Stage Turbine Blade is, frankly, remarkable. From the humble beginnings of a band standing in the middle of the contemporary rock pack with a potentially ambitious album-spanning concept as the only feature elevating them over their contemporaries, they’ve transformed into an epic, hard-hitting modern progressive metal

Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow review: Don't let the god-awful album title deter you, Year of the Black Rainbow is another solid outing for the rock quartet.