Cobalt and Calcium | Year of the Black Rainbow

lttheninja from our message board uncovered these Lego figures of characters from The Amory Wars.

Thanks for the find LT!

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Hoffie from the message board found this video posted on 3/27 of Claudio post-Neverender L.A. on Co&Ca’s Buzznet site, check it out now.

http://coheedandcambria.buzznet.com/user/video/3988831/11082008087/

Message from the band:

Burbank Town Center,
201 East Magnolia,
Burbank, CA 91501

5pm – ALL 4 OF US WILL BE THERE SIGNING YOUR STUFF

Need more info? Call the Burbank Town Center Hot Topic at 818.843.8630

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From MySpace:

So you know we’re signing in Burbank, tomorrow.

We’re going to record a song this week to see how it goes. sort of a warm up to the new album…

the Sayreville, NJ show is almost sold out, so you best get a ticket if you’re taking your time.

did you buy Neverender yet?

anyone flying into puerto rico from another place, please hit us up. we’d like to know where you’re coming from.

peace

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March 26, Burbank, CA 5pm

Burbank Town Center, 201 East Magnolia, Burbank, CA 91501

Beginning Thursday, March 12th, pre-order their new Neverender DVD or purchase any Coheed and Cambria T-shirt at the Burbank Town Center Hot Topic location ONLY and receive a wristband that guarantees the opportunity to meet Coheed and Cambria on March 26th!* Need more info? Call the Burbank Town Center Hot Topic at 818.843.8630.

*Available while supplies last. Space is limited. Offer not valid online. Limit one wristband and one autograph per person.

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A new message from the band:

Neverender Box Set problems

If you received a box set that you ordered via the bands “SKYROO” website and it is damaged, or there is another problem, please send an email to neverender at coheedandcambria.com  and state what the problem is. Consider attaching a photo of the damaged box for quicker resolution.
thanks and peace
co&ca

UPDATED EDIT –
please don’t email because your name isn’t in the book. While we apologize, we will not be reprinting the book to accommodate.

if you paid for your box set through paypal, there was no place to put your name. We emailed everyone to explain to them what to do, but obviously not everyone got that email.
Also, if you didn’t enter your name in the space provided it did not come out.
Also, some people typed really long names or shoutouts and those were deleted.

apologies if you expected your name and didn’t get it, but again, do not contact this email or skyroo or anything, they won’t be able to help you.

thanks

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TODAY is the day that all of us have been waiting for. The anticipation and excitement have been building for months leading up to this day and now the wait is over. The Neverender DVD has finally hit stores and hopefully your mailboxes as well and we are more then excited to have this piece of concert history forever enshrined on DVD.

We know that many of you still have questions about your orders or about the release in general so we have set up a FAQ thread where hopefully you can find the answers that you seek.  Please check out the first post throughout the day as we update information. Thank you to the following users who have helped put this FAQ together:  mackie, youngbrother, Fazed, Shortflip.

You still have time to order your copy if you haven’t. Click the image below to be taken to the official store. We have also set up a thread for users who are purchasing the box set at retail stores to help you find which store have copies available as they are extremely limited – check that out here. 

We have also unveiled a Neverender theme for our message board to celebrate this special occasion, thanks to Mackie for assisting with it.

Have you been casually reading our site but have not yet taken the time to register an account on message board? Well there is no better time then today, REGISTER now and get active inside our community. It only takes a moment for you to get going and to start connecting with your fellow fans!

The staff at Cobalt and Calcium would like to take a moment to thank the band,  their family and friends, Doug and the production team and everyone involved in bringing the magic of Neverender to all of the fans and to our fan community! This DVD set captures so many of the memories that we all shared together at Neverender, memories that will last a lifetime of friends made and the good times that were had.

Here is a message from the band about today’s release

Happy Neverender Day!

Thanks for your patience, we hope you like the box and the dvd set.We will respond to some of the complaints a little later, but overall it seems everyone is really happy and that makes us very happy.

PEACE!
Co&CA

With all that said, I hope everyone has a great Neverender Day!

-Matt

Beginning Thursday, March 12th, pre-order their new Neverender DVD or purchase any Coheed and Cambria T-shirt at the Bridgewater Commons Hot Topic location ONLY and a wristband that guarantees the opportunity to meet Coheed and Cambria on receive March 24th!* Need more info? Call the Bridgewater Commons Hot Topic at 908.203.9130.

*Available while supplies last. Space is limited. Offer not valid online. Limit one wristband and one autograph per person. See associate for further details.

March 24th/2009
17:00 at Hot Topic – SIGNING ONLY
400 Commons Way, Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807
Come get your Neverender DVDS and boxsets signed!

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From Kill Audio.Com

These custom Kill Audio’s were brought to our attention this morning and were up on ebay.  Pretty awesome–we especially love Darth Audio

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The folks over at Allmusic.com have posted their review of the Neverender DVD.

Read on:

 Say what you want about Coheed and Cambria, but they can never be accused of not finishing what they start. This band’s scope of ambition has been enormous from the very beginning, and it has remained focused, driven, and single-pointed since their debut album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade, back in 2002. The grand sci-fi/fantasy concept of The Amory Wars (aka “The Story”) grew from the graphic novel and comic book series that vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez authored, and has pushed this group toward the ultimate realization of its vision in Neverender: Children of the Fence in 2009. Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Michael Todd, and drummer Chris Pennie have come up with the ultimate rock fetish package to celebrate the completion of their conceptual quartet. Over four nights in 2008 the band took the stage at New York City’s Terminal 5 and played one album each evening and recorded the full performances as well as documented them visually. In this lavishly designed box are four CDs, each one devoted to one of the four albums in the series — The Second Stage Turbine Blade; In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3; Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness; Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World for Tomorrow — with accompanying DVDs of each night. The entire festival is captured for posterity. Needless to say, this is not for the casual fan.

Musically, these shows are not perfect, but they are also better than good. Coheed are musically sophisticated and well rehearsed — so much so that one of their middling nights is better than ten lesser bands on the best nights of their careers. The hardcore fan who is willing to shell out the big money for this set will not be disappointed by the performances here — especially given the great degree of spontaneity on display in guitar solos, vocal acrobatics, dynamic shifts and changes, and sheer inspiration. All the albums are played in their entirety with some beautiful encores on the DVDs that accompany them — including a cover of Bob Dylan‘s “I Shall Be Released” on the final evening. In addition to the eight discs is an additional DVD documentary included only in the box called The Fiction Will See the Real. The book is hardbound, and shot in full color on heavy stock with photos from each night and full credits. Finally, the box includes a cast metal golden dragonfly contained in molded foam rubber. The box is limited to 15,000 copies. Simply put, this is one of the more beautiful box sets ever issued, and it helps that the music, as wide-ranging, full-on rockist as it is, makes it more than a mere fetish object. Presented in this way, with live performances on successive evenings, “The Story” takes on an entirely new dimension, and becomes even more cohesive. Again, this is not for everyone, and not even for every Coheed and Cambria fan, but if you are part of that small contingent who will deem this worthy of laying down a pile of hard-earned dollars for, this is as much a tribute to you as it is a celebration of the music itself. Mission accomplished. [For the more casual -- or economically challenged -- fan, this set also comes in a far less expensive edition that simply contains all four shows on a pair of DVDs].

You can also preview some of the audio from the boxset on their website. 

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