Review: Coheed and Cambria

By: Matt McRae

Posted: 10/25/07

Coheed and Cambria
No World for Tomorrow

Coheed and Cambria are not what you typically think of when you think of rock bands.

Who would ever think of making music revolving around a comic book? Aren't comic books for nerds?

C&C break this stereotype.

Their albums prove that they are able to rock out with the best of them. No World for Tomorrow is no exception.

The music is intertwined with the storyline of Claudio Sanchez's-C&C's lead singer and guitarist-comic books called The Amory Wars, formerly known as The Bag On Line Adventures. The band's name even comes from two of the main characters of the comic, Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon.

No World for Tomorrow continues the storyline that has taken place over the past three albums.

No World is possibly the band's best work to date. Claudio, complete with his signature, falsetto voice, is simply amazing. He delivers his lyrics with an unbridled ferocity through the whole album.

C&C's maturation is evident in this album. The riffs are catchy and powerful throughout most of it. Also, C&C received help from one of the industry's best drummers, Foo Fighter's Taylor Hawkins. Hawkins plays all the drums on No World.

Successfully combining a classic and modern rock sound, No World's guitar work is proof of C&C being at the top of their game.

Though it does slow down in the "End Complete" portion of the album, No World for Tomorrow is an overall superb album. "No World for Tomorrow," "The Hound (of Blood and Rank)," "Feathers," "The Running Free" and "Gravemakers & Gunslingers" stand as reasons enough to buy No World.

If you want to hear an album with some of the best riffs to come out this year, pick up this album.

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An avid music and game enthusiast, Matt McRae is the photography editor of The Chanticleer. He can be reached at (256) 782-8521 or at chantyphoto@gmail.com. You can read his weekly music blog at mattonanisland.blogspot.com.