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The Who's Who of Coheed And
Cambria Taken From Official Website:
Claudio Sanchez - Vocals/Guitar
Travis Stever - Guitar/Vocals
Michael Todd - Bass
Joshua Eppard - Drums
New York's Coheed & Cambria officially began
in 2001, although the band originally formed
as a trio called Shabutie in 1995. After
performing a poppy metal/indie rock sound
for many years, they decided to shift gears
and, in the process, changed their name.
Their first conceptual album, 2002's The
Second Stage Turbine Blade, was picked up by
Equal Vision Records and features a guest
appearance by Bad Brains guitarist Dr. Know.
The progressive rock band --
vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez,
guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Michael
Todd, and drummer Joshua Eppard -- toured
extensively for over a year in support of
the album, which was the second part (though
the first album) of a five-part saga about
the doomed marriage of two characters,
Coheed and Cambria, who "are convinced they
must sacrifice their children in order to
save the world from being infected by a
virus that is embedded in their genes."
Sanchez also wrote and released a detailed
graphic novel series to further explain the
plot.
In fall 2003, the band issued In Keeping
Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. The vibrant
sophomore effort (part three of the
five-part saga) was recorded in Japan in
between tours with the Used, and helped
break the guys out on a larger scale with
the singles "A Favor House Atlantic" and
"Blood Red Summer" doing respectably well on
outlets like MTV. Coheed & Cambria went on
to play shows in North America with artists
such as Thursday, Thrice, AFI, and Rainer
Maria. Their first appearance on the tenth
annual Warped Tour in summer 2004 and their
first headlining European tour coincided the
success of the "A Favor House Atlantic"
single.
Coheed & Cambria's third album, Good Apollo
I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear
Through the Eyes of Madness -- their first
for Columbia -- followed in fall 2005; the
album (part four) was the first of a
two-part conclusion to the band's running
sci-fi story line (with the fifth album
intended to be the first part). It hit
number seven on Billboard's Top 200,
partially due to the success of "The
Suffering" and "Welcome Home." On Halloween
2006, Equal Vision released the debut from
Sanchez's indie electronic solo project, the
Prize Fighter Inferno, entitled My Brother's
Blood Machine. Continuing in the tradition
of his primary group, the album centers
around three families in a story that
pre-dates the Coheed/Cambria saga and is
narrated by Inferno (aka Jesse, Coheed's
brother).
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