Coheed and Cambria | No World For Tomorrow

Yes, AbolutePunk was lucky enough to get an Advance of “No World For Tomorrow”, which releases on October 23rd. Garrettap’s Review can be found in this thread on our forum board.

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So Claudio basically walked into the studio with all those stirring emotions he’s mentioned in the interviews and let it wail. This is the hardest rocking, loudest, and most instrumentally intense Coheed record yet and I think even darker than GA1. No, they have not reverted back to Second Stage or In Keeping Secrets, but they have also not made a carbon copy of Apollo 1 with a different story. Though the tracking of the record is quite similar, this album will knock you on your ass with ten times the force of GA1.Whereas you could hear the band trying to emulate specific influences on GA1 (a.k.a. Once Upon Your Dead Body) on GA2 it’s pure CoCa and their influences only help to make things rock n roll. There’s roughly four songs which gave me GA1 vibes, but the rest is a whole new beast. Solos are back and sharper and the riffage is on fire, seriously I feel like it’s burning a hole in my CD player, this record is hot, flaming fire. Upon hearing the record, the cover artwork works perfectly, because you really feel the weight of that shirtless character heading towards a world being torn to pieces - both his outer layer of revenge, anger, and blood lust as well as his inner emotional conscience get a voice here.

Claudio, as usual, gives a stellar vocal performance - sounding a little higher than GA1 but equally character driven in his vocal stylings. Please do not overthink “The Running Free” it’s one of only two songs that I would even begin to think of the word “pop” (there really is very little pop this time). It sounds so much better in context and it’s an awesome awesome song in my opinion. Please also stop listening to Mother Superior acoustic right now. Like everything else on this record, it is not a cute acoustic song you can put in your pocket, it is LARGE and a different animal, but vocally note for note like the acoustic version.

The End Complete is just about as insane as you’ve imagined it, and because the first half of the record is a rockfest, it doesn’t feel like a total 180 a la the Willing Wells. The records ends with dignity and of course it’s super epic. I won’t say anything more here (read below if you want tiny hints). All in all it’s a pretty perfect and justified end to the saga - a full progression of a band’s sound. Coheed and Cambria were the saviors of rock and roll but now….. they ARE rock and roll.

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