Issue #2, of “The Second Stage Turbine Blade” has been released today and is available right now at Hot Topic, and will be available online very soon!
This issue covers “Devil in Jersey City”, and “Everything Evil”.
I am pretty sure this comic book costs around 4.00 USD, and you will probably be able to pick this comic book up at a show of theirs if they are playing by you in the next two months.
——————————————————————————–
- Cobalt and Calcium Update: (2005-06-30)
——————————————————————————–
Wallpapers
- Added two wallpapers created by RaiseForthLostCause
- Added two wallpapers created by Max Green
- Added two wallpapers created by Chris Tecarr
- Added one wallpaper created by Jena Craig-Brown
- Added one wallpaper created by TheKeywork
- Added one wallpaper created by Tim Mollins
- Added one wallpaper created by Shender
Icons
- Added eight icons created by ApolloScreen
- Added one icon created by Nick
- Added one icon created by Devin Grubbs
Fan Cover Songs
- Added “The Crowing” by Anthony Masington
- Added “The Crowing” by The Children and the Jury
- Added “Everything Evil” by The Children and the Jury
- Added “Junesong Provision” by Dave Darche
- Added “stars” to indicate the quality of the cover songs
Tabs
- Edited numerous revisions to selective guitar tabs for corrections
- Added bass tab “The Velorium Camper I: Faint Of Hearts” created by m45k1ngt4p3
- Added bass tab “Cuts Marked in the March of Men” created by m45k1ngt4p3
- Added bass tab “21:13″ created by m45k1ngt4p3
Fan Art
- Added fan art created by Eric Mazzola
Fan Merchandise
- Added t-shirt “Coheed and Cambria Domino Skull” sent in by Tyler Patterson
- Added poster “Coheed and Cambria: Troubadour” sent in by Tyler Patterson
- Added t-shirt “Coheed and Cambria: Angel” sent in by Mikhail Gordon
- Added album “Second Stage Turbine Blade: Japanese Release” sent in by Tyler Patterson
- Added jacket “Second Stage Turbine Blade: Zip-up” sent in by Tyler Patterson
- Added t-shirt “Coheed and Cambria: Heart” sent in by Adam
- Added comic “The Bag Online Adventures: The Second Stage Turbine Blade No. 2″ sent in by Mikhail Gordon
Salute Your Shorts
- Added salute from Ville
- Added salute from Marcel
- Added salute from Mikhail
Seems as though Columbia Records has sent out a press release today and they are giving us some really important dates to look forward on. Coheed and Cambria will be releasing “Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: Volume 1″ on Tuesday, September 20th 2005.
Directly from Columbia Records:
The intricate title of the third album from Coheed and Cambria, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: Volume 1. From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, intimates the density and complexity of the music it contains. The LP (set for release Sept. 20) is the first to be recorded by the New York-based rock act since last year’s signing with Columbia Records. Its predecessor, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (originally released on indie Equal Vision), was recently certified gold by the RIAA following Coheed’s dramatic breakout last year. The strikingly original band?Claudio Sanchez (vocals, guitar), Michael Todd (bass, backing vocals), Travis Stever (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Josh Eppard (drums, backing vocals, has generated a deep well of fanatical fans as well as across-the-board accolades by the press, so one might say that Coheed has set the bar extremely high for itself.
Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV:
Volume 1. From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness,
Follow-up to the Gold In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3,
“The Year’s Most Fearless Rock Album” (The New York Times),
in Stores Tuesday, September 20But fear not. The band’s growth is mind-blowingly apparent on GAIBS4V1. With its staggering rock riffs, epic jams and catchy hooks, this is an album that’s sure to open the ears of new fans while keeping the loyal flock genuflecting at Coheed’s altar. “There’s a lot of classic-rock influence on this record,” Stever revealed recently to Alternative Press. “Pink Floyd, the Police, Black Sabbath?we all listened to this shit growing up. The old elements are still there; we’re just evolving as a band.”
The upcoming album is also the first half of the third installment of the band’s daringly ambitious prog-rock/sci-fi opus recounting the exploits of young Claudio Kilgannon, who is out to avenge the death of his three siblings and parents (Coheed and Cambria). The saga began with the band’s 2002 debut, Second Stage Turbine Blade, and will eventually end with a prequel, where the fans will find out how it really began. Not to be outdone by George Lucas, story creator Sanchez plans to someday make a movie from it all.
Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: Volume 1 has a twist, though: This one steps outside the story and focuses on the writer of the tale, and how the goings-on in his own life affect the outcome of the story he’s in the midst of telling. “With the past records, the story of Coheed and Cambria is very fictional,” Sanchez recently explained to MTV News. “[Volume 1] takes you for kind of a loop, and we now see the story from the writer’s perspective, and how the writer’s reality is going to affect the outcome of the story. [This album] is probably the most personal Coheed record of them all. There will be songs about things that happen on a normal day for someone that drives them to a point of destroying something they love. And then, of course, there will be long epics that go back into the concept, and now we see it from the character’s perspective and how the character takes dealing with the writer. It’s like, ‘Wow, none of this really exists. It’s just a story and you have to do what the writer says.’ It’s going to be pretty interesting.”
Preceding the new album will be a 32-page comic loosely based on Second Stage Turbine Blade and published by Sanchez’s graphic-arts company, Evil Ink, with an initial run of 40,000. The provocative comic book will be featured at this summer’s annual San Diego Comic Con, which will host a Coheed booth and a performance by the band. There will also be signings at L.A.’s Golden Apple, Bill Haley’s Universe in New York and Chicago Comics. The year will culminate with the publication of a lavish, 112-page graphic novel encompassing the full Good Apollo…IV story.
The band’s summer tour of the U.S. and Canada (dates below) will include three special shows in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago; during each, they’ll play 40 minutes acoustically, following it with a full rock show. Coheed and Cambia will also appear at festivals in Japan and Europe, where they have rabid followings. On Aug. 6, they’ll perform at the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York’s Central Park as part of the Summerstage Performance series, and they’ll perform this fall at CMJ Music Marathon.
Coheed and Cambria’s epic storytelling, majestically crafted songs, impeccably taut musicianship and intriguing personae have been dazzling the critics since word about the band’s exploits first started spreading three years ago. The New York Times’ Kelefeh Sanneh, who’s championed the band from the getgo, called Silent Earth: 3, “the year’s most fearless rock album,” while noting that the group “draws from the grand, ornate tradition of progressive rock, but its songs are lean and fluid and (mostly) hummable.” CMJ Music Monthly heralded the album as “a beautifully complicated chuck of heavy, filled with melodic-pop sentiment and heartfelt lyrics.” Coheed was hailed in Alternative Press as the “#1 Band You Need to Know in 2004″ and was singled out as Blender’s “Next Big Thing” last year.
Coheed and Cambria will be performing at the 2005 Mostly Music Festival on June 28th, 2005. They will be doing an hour long show for FREE which will be held in Nyack’s Memorial Park from 8:30-9:30 PM EST.
CANCELLED: Coheed and Cambria will not be playing in this festival, and we don’t know why.
Tidebleach wanted to do a tribute to Lance (NoQuarter) and this bootleg from the Music Midtown in Atlanta, GA on June 12th, 2005 goes out to him. You may download the entire audio set directly from our Coheed and Cambria Audio page. Tidebleach has also included cover art to complete the dedication.
I’m really not going to get into Lance because I really didn’t know him, but everyone has nothing but great things to say about him, and he really did a lot for the Coheed and Cambria community when he was here.
I am going to have the membership-only feature disabled for about a week so everyone has a chance to get this specific bootleg and anything else you may have missed.
Thank you,
Brian
Cobalt and Calcium will be holding its second contest, and we will be giving away a pair of tickets to see Coheed and Cambria for a SOLD OUT show at the Irving Plaza on July 22nd.
Our friend travelinbeat from the forum board was kind enough to sell me two tickets to a certain-certain sold out show, so I am going set a contest up for all of you to get a chance to win two free Coheed and Cambria tickets. I am hoping I can start this contest on June 6th, which falls on a Monday.
Our Weerd Science Photo Gallery now has 36 new pictures from the show at CBGB’s last week and these came out crisp n’ clear.
Just a reminder for those of you who got a limited edition cobalt shirt, we’ll be sending those out to you on Monday morning.
