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Coheed and Cambria are the inaugural MTV Musical March Madness Bracketology Champions

Congratulations go out to the band and we at Cobalt and Calcium would like to give a huge pat on the back to everyone who took time out of their days over the last few weeks to vote and propel the guys to the title.

You have all shown that the Children of the Fence are a force to be reckoned with and well done to all who got themselves involved. We love you guys!

Sincerely,

The Staff of Cobalt and Calcium

This is it folks, all that we’ve worked for. THE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND. Go to mtv.com right now and vote for Coheed. Lets show MCRmy what we’re made of.

Discuss our efforts here.

Hi all,

Coheed have made it through to the final 8 in MTV’s March Madness Bracketology competition. We’re up against Alice in Chains this time around and we’re gonna need all the help we can get from the Children of the Fence.

Please head on over there and vote for Coheed. Be sure to check out the other match-ups too, we really want Coheed to win this thing so lets show them ‘Heed fans are the best around. HERE WE ARE JUGGERNAUT!

You can discuss the competition with other Coheed fans here

Fans of the band will be excited to hear that you will be able to participate in a live chat with the guys on the 1st of April at 6pm EST/3pm PST

Go to Livestream.com for details

Chat about this with other members of our community

From MySpace:

Enter the Coheed and Cambria Neverender Contest!

Enter HERE for a chance to win a keepsake from all 4 Coheed and Cambria albums, and autographed Neverender Poster and Neverender 2 DVD Edition.

2 Grand Prize Winners:
Prize from The Second Stage Turbine Blade Zip-Up Hoodie
Autographed 2 x 2 from In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Welcome Home 7 inch with bonus track – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star 4: Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
Autographed The Running Free 7 inch with bonus track – No World For Tomorrow
Autographed Neverender Poster
2 DVD Edition of Neverender

5 Runners up:
Autographed Neverender Poster and 2 DVD Edition of Neverender

Discuss this contest on our forum with others now.

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

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. 

Discuss this review with our community. 

From our friends at Buzznet:

http://coheedandcambria.buzznet.com/user/video/3968331/neverender-dvd-gag-reel/

Taken from the Neverender DVD Documentary “The Fiction Will See The Real”
included ONLY on the limited Children of the Fence Edition Neverender DVD/CD
In Stores March 24th

Discuss the Gag Reel on our message board.

Buzznet is holding a contest where three winners will win a package containing:

1) A signed Neverender poster
2) The Neverender two-dvd set

Good luck!

Discuss this further here

Thanks to forum user xxshawn for finding the following information:

http://www.playlist.com/
Today’s featured playlist is a mix of a few of the songs from the Neverender DVD boxset.

Songs included:

Welcome Home
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
A Favor House Atlantic
Three Evils (Embodied in Love And Shadow)
Wake Up
The Willing Well II: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness

The first two were previously unreleased, and the rest are available on the Neverender 12% Hot Topic Exclusive CD.

Discuss this news post now!