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.

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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.

A prog-metal concept album about a fictional galaxy? Count <strong>Jamie Thomson</strong> out

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.