Coheed and Cambria

**Coheed and Cambria** (sometimes abbreviated to "Coheed," "CO & CA" or "C&C") is an American rock band from New York.
Coheed and Cambria have made four studio albums, two live albums, and some special albums. Their studio albums are concept albums, showing one story broken into parts. The band wants to make five albums telling the story of The Amory Wars. Now, four albums have been released: _The Second Stage Turbine Blade_, _In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_, _Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_, and _Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow_, and _Year of the Black Rainbow_. These albums make the first, second, third, and fourth part of the four-part story of Coheed and Cambria. The albums have been made out of order; the second part was made first, and the first part has been made last.

### Early Days (1995)

When a band called Toxic Parents, with Claudio Sanchez and Travis Stever in it, broke up about the same time as Nate Kelley's band, Moe & The Boogie Cats, the members of these bands came together to form a new band in March 1995. This band was called Beautiful Loser. It had Travis Stever singing and playing guitar, Claudio Sanchez on guitar, Nate Kelley on drums and Jon Carleo on bass. The group did not last long, it broke up in June 1995; they had an argument about gas money. Stever left the band, and Kelley was kicked out, but he came back when Sanchez asked him to. Without Stever, the band only had three people, so Sanchez started to sing and play guitar.

### Shabütie

They changed their name to Shabütie, a chant taken from the movie "The Naked Prey". The band constantly changed and experimented with different genres and styles, never properly deciding a set genre. When Carleo left the band in August 1996, Kelley asked Michael Todd to join the band, who he had worked with in an acoustic project called "Esme 9". Todd, a guitar player, started playing bass because of Shabütie.

### Coheed and Cambria (2000 — 2006)

After Kelley left, Sanchez and the other people picked Josh Eppard, who was in the band "3", to take his place. In 2001, shortly after The Delirium Trigger EP was made, they changed their name to Coheed and Cambria and Shabütie was finished. The band was now a four piece: Claudio Sanchez, (lead vocals/guitar), Travis Stever, (backup vocals/guitar), Michael Todd, (backup vocals/bass guitar), and Josh Eppard, (drums). When playing live, Dave Parker (keyboards/guitar), sometimes plays too.

### Recent times (2006—)

Josh Eppard could not play at Coheed and Cambria's June 9 slot at the Download Festival in the UK because he was ill. A few days later, the band canceled the Barcelona and Essen parts of their European tour.

In November 2006, it was announced that both Josh Eppard and Mic Todd had left the band.

A few months after, Mic Todd returned to work on the No World For Tomorrow with the band.

It was announced a few days before the band embarked on Warped Tour '07 that Chris Pennie, the former drummer for Dillinger Escape Plan, is working with the band in studio.

The band debuted their first single from No World For Tomorrow, The Running Free during Warped Tour '07.

In July, a website registered to Sony appeared on the internet, www.noworldfortomorrow.com. This website contained a countdown.

After this countdown ended, a message was released and another countdown appeared. This showed that a message would be released weekly. An archive of the messages released can be found here .

On October 23, 2007 The band's forth studio album was released under the name "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow" It was met with positive reviews from online zines such as Rollingstone.com and Absolutepunk.net.

## Influences and similarities

Sanchez has said that he is influenced by bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Yes and many people say that they sound like Rush. But, Claudio Sanchez has said that he never listened to the band until he heard people say that they sounded like each other. _Metal Hammer_ magazine called the band the "new Led Zeppelin" on the front cover of issue 153. They also have hardcore punk influences such as Bad Brains and The Misfits. Claudio also said in an interview he learned to play guitar by listening to the Misfits' Legacy of Brutality.

## Other projects

- _The Amory Wars_ (previously called _The Bag On Line Adventures_) – Claudio Sanchez's comic book series telling the story of Coheed and Cambria. Gus Vasquez also worked on the books. The series began on June 6, 2007. An Amory Wars sketchbook with character profiles and sample art has already come out.
- _Weerd Science_ – Josh Eppard's hip-hop side project. The only album to come out, Friends and Nervous Breakdowns, came out on March 22nd, 2005.
- _The Prize Fighter Inferno_ – Side-project of Claudio Sanchez. The first album "My Brother's Blood Machine" came out on Halloween (October 31st, 2006. Its story is loosely tied in to _The Amory Wars_ as it contains one or more of the same characters.
- _Fire Deuce_ – Travis Stever's side-project, that has released two EPs, "Children of the Deuce" and "Deep Down and Dirty EP" which was only available online when bought with Children Of The Deuce.
- _The English Panther_ – Travis Stever's solo side-project. The first self-titled album was released digitally on iTunes on January 25, 2007.
- _Rosie Barbra & The Family Massacre" Claudio's new project with his wife to be, the only songs know to date are The Echomaker, first played at Neverender Londan, and a demo version of The Road & The Damned.

### Current members

- Claudio Sanchez - Lead Vocals, Guitar
- Travis Stever - Lead Guitar, Lap Steel, Backup Vocals
- Josh Eppard - Drums
- Zach Cooper - Bass guitar, Backup Vocals

### Past members

- Mic Todd - Bass guitar
- Chris Pennie - Drums

## Discography

_Work done as Shabűtie is noted._

### Studio albums

The Coheed and Cambria albums are coming out out of sequence; the last album to come out will be the first part of the series. The first CD made was _The Second Stage Turbine Blade_, the second part in the story, the third and fourth parts came out next. The next album has been called "Most Anticipated Album of 2007" by the _Alternative Press_ magazine. The February 2007 issue of _Kerrang!_ says, "Among the songs that may or may not appear on the album are 'Gravemakers And Gunslingers' and 'The Hound Of Blood And Rank.'" Also, the issue says that a release should come out in either late spring or early summer.

|**Release Date**|**Title**|**U.S. Chart Positions**|**U.S. Sales**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|February 5, 2002|**The Second Stage Turbine Blade** Part Two of The Amory Wars|–|–|
|October 7, 2003|**In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3** Part Three of The Amory Wars|#52 (Bllboard 200), #1 (Heatseekers)|Gold|
|September 20, 2005|**Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness** Part Four of The Amory Wars (Volume 1)|#7|Platinum|
|October 23, 2007|**Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow** Part Four of The Amory Wars (Volume 2)|#6||
|April 13, 2010|**Year of the Black Rainbow**|–|–|
|October 9, 2012|**The Afterman: Ascension**|–|–|
|February 5, 2013|**The Afterman: Descension**|–|–|
|October 16, 2015|**The Color Before the Sun**|–|–|
|October 5, 2018|**Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures**|–|–|
|2022|**Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind**|||
|2025|**Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe**|||

### DVDs

- Live at the Starland Ballroom (2005)
- The Last Supper: Live at Hammerstein Ballroom (2006)
- Neverender: Children of The Fence Edition (2009)

### Other Songs

A cover of Night Ranger's 'Sister Christian' was released by the band via the bands official website as an MP3 download as a Christmas present to their fans. Similarly, a cover of The Band's "I Shall Be Released" was uploaded onto the bands MySpace page as a Christmas Present to their fans in 2006. The band also used to play a cover of Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" at concerts. A song called "The Glass" was in the process of being written for the movie Spiderman 2's soundtrack, but the song was not finished in time and it was scrapped. Many Shabütie songs are circulated on the internet. Some were recorded in a studio, but others were recorded on a 4-track, resulting in poor quality audio. There is also a live bootleg on the internet of a song played by Shabütie that fans named "Nauraushaun". It was assumed that this song was one song in full, but former drummer Nate Kelley has recently told fans that the song was in fact two songs played in a medley. These two songs are "Origins" and "Life Without You". These two songs were never recorded except for the bootleg that has been circulating, although "Life Without You" was almost recorded instead of "Cassiopeia". In the end the band decided they liked "Cassiopeia" more and this was recorded instead.

### EPs & Other Albums

|Year|Title|Label|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1999|_Plan to Take Over the World_ (as Shabűtie)|Wisteria Records|
|1999|_The Penelope EP_ (as Shabűtie)|Wisteria Records|
|2000|_Delirium Trigger_ (as Shabűtie)|Wisteria Records|
|2004|_Live at the Starland Ballroom_|EVR/Columbia|
|2004|_Live at La Zona Rosa_|EVR/Columbia|
|2005|_Live at the Avalon_|EVR/Columbia|
|2006|_Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions_|iTunes Exclusive|
|2009|_Neverender 12%_|Columbia|

### Singles

|Year|Title|Label|Album||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2003|"Devil in Jersey City"|Equal Vision|_The Second Stage Turbine Blade_||
|2004|"A Favor House Atlantic"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_||
|2004|"Blood Red Summer"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_||
|2005|"The Suffering"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_||
|2005|"Welcome Home"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_||
|2006|"Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial)"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_||
|2007|"The Running Free"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow_||
|2008|"Feathers"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow_||
|2010|"The Broken"|Equal Vision/Columbia|_Year of the Black Rainbow_||
|2010|"Here We Are Juggernaut"||_Year of the Black Rainbow_||
|2010|"World of Lines"||_Year of the Black Rainbow_||
|2012|"Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute"||_The Afterman: Ascension_||
|2012|"The Afterman"||_The Afterman: Ascension_||
|2013|"Dark Side of Me"||_The Afterman: Descension_||
|2015|"You Got Spirit, Kid"||_The Color Before the Sun_||
|2015|"Here to Mars"||_The Color Before the Sun_||
|2018|"The Dark Sentencer"||_Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures_||
|2018|"Unheavenly Creatures"||_Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures_||
|2018|"The Gutter"||_Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures_||
|2018|"Old Flames"||_Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures_||
|2020|"Jessie's Girl 2"" (featuring Rick Springfield)||non-album single||

### Chart Positions

|width="28" rowspan="2"|Year|width="150" rowspan="2"|Title|colspan="4"|Chart positions|width="343" rowspan="2"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2004|A Favor House Atlantic|||||||
|_In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_||||||||
|2005|Blood Red Summer|||||||
|_In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_||||||||
|2005|The Suffering|||||||
|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_||||||||
|2006|Welcome Home|||||||
|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_||||||||

## Music videos

|Year|Video|Album|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2003|_Delirium Trigger_|_The Second Stage Turbine Blade_|Features on the _In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_ bonus DVD.||
|2003|_Devil in Jersey City_|_The Second Stage Turbine Blade_|||
|2003|_Devil in Jersey City_ (alternative video)|_The Second Stage Turbine Blade_|Features on the _In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_ bonus DVD.||
|2004|_A Favor House Atlantic_|_In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_|||
|2004|_Blood Red Summer_|_In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3_|||
|2005|_Welcome Home_|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_|||
|2005|_The Suffering_|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_|||
|2006|_Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial)_|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_|||
|2006|_The Willing Well IV: the Final Cut_|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness_|Made by Sanchez and his girlfriend and released unofficially.||
|2007|_The Running Free_|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow_|||
|2008|_Feathers_|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow_|||
|2008|_Gravemakers & Gunslingers_|_Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow_|Made by Sanchez and features clips from live performances.||

A series of six vignettes that showcase music from _Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness'' were made and are on the albums' special edition bonus DVD.

## Other websites

- Official website
- Equal Vision Records
- MTV.com Video page  – Coheed and Cambria's music videos
- Last.fm profile page – User-Created Charts of the Band's more Popular

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Coheed and Cambria
- **img**: COCAcentralpark.jpeg
- **img capt**: Coheed and Cambria at Central Park in 2010.
- **img size**: 250
- **landscape**: Yes
- **background**: group_or_band
- **origin**: Nyack, New York, USA
- **genre**: Progressive rock, new prog, alternative rock
- **years active**: 1995–present
- **label**: B Unique, Columbia Records, Columbia, Equal Vision Records, Equal Vision, Roadrunner Records, Roadrunner, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony
- **associated acts**: The Prize Fighter Inferno, Davenport Cabinet, Weerd Science, Terrible Things
- **current members**: Claudio Sanchez
Travis Stever
Josh Eppard
Zach Cooper
- **past members**: Nate Kelley
Michael Todd (musician), Mic Todd
Chris Pennie