Coheed And Cambria To Release New Two-Part Album

It’s been a good month if you are a fan of the progressive rock band Coheed And Cambria. At this year’s Comic-Con, guitarist/vocalist Claudio Sanchez announced that he is teaming up with producers Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson to bring ‘The Amory Wars’ to the big screen. Today, they announced their new album.

The upcoming album is gonna be a two-part concept album which will be a spin-off to The Amory Wars storyline. The album is called ‘The Afterman’. Part one is called ‘The Afterman: Ascension’, which will be released on October 9th. The second part, called ‘The Afterman: Descension’, will be released four months later in February 2013.

Below is the official trailer for the albums:

The band self-funded the double album and will be released on both physical and digital platforms via Hundred Handed/Everything Evil, and distributed through Fontana/Ingrooves. Below is the press release for the new albums via AudioPerv:

A deluxe version of the ‘The Afterman’ will include a hardcover coffee-table book with expansive art by Heidi Taillefer and Nathan Spoor with collaborative written work from singer/creator Claudio Sanchez and writer Peter David that will create a song by song experience. David previously worked with Sanchez on the prose novel adaptation of the band’s 2010 album “Year of the Black Rainbow,” and the graphic novel adaptation of their 2003 album “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (which reached #4 on the New York Times Bestsellers list for graphic novels earlier this year).” All the band’s titles, including ‘The Afterman,’ fall into a grand sci-fi story arc called ‘The Amory Wars.”

Musically, ‘The Afterman’ sees the band perfecting their powerhouse progressive rock, soul and even pop landscapes. The dual release also marks the return of original drummer Josh Eppard, who the band parted ways with in 2006, bringing with him his benchmark percussive grooves. Coheed and Cambria self-financed and co-produced ‘The Afterman,’ alongside Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner, who produced the band’s first 3 albums, in Woodstock, NY. The album was mixed by Rich Costey (Muse, The Shins, Foster the People) and Ryan Williams (30 Seconds To Mars).

“This is without a doubt, the most honest record I’ve ever written,” says Sanchez. “Though all the songs can be interpreted through our main character in the story, they were initially written in a very spontaneous manner.” “In the past,” he continues,” I’ve always had a predetermined idea of what the story was going to be when I approached the songs. With ‘The Afterman’ being a new story within the (“The Amory Wars”) arc, I allowed the events of my life to drive the concept, and therefore opened up the songwriting to a fuller degree.”