History Music / CoheedAndCambria

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Used in a few songs, most noticeably ''"The Velourium Camper III: Al The Killer"''

** There's a song called 33,
** Another song by The Prize Fighter Inferno--Claudio S's side project--is called 78, a multiple of three,

** 21:13 is a bonus track on ''In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth 3''. According to WordOfGod, 21:13 is the time Claudio was supposed to be home by. It's essentially "Everything Evil" from Claudio's point of view.

*** But just to mention one of them: the planet where it all started is called 'Silent Earth: 3' (which, chronologically, is the band's ''third'' musical installment in the Amory Wars saga).

** The albums
** The comics, plus two discontinued series, plus retcons throughout the first two volumes of the current series
** The novels, which, if they are written, will be in a slightly different timeline.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Year of the Black Rainbow''
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''33'' for Patrick, and, according to Claudio S., the first three vocalized songs in ''In Keeping Secrets'' for Sizer.

** Finally averted with ''Unheavenly Creatures'', the videos for 'Unheavenly Creatures' and 'The Gutter' depicting the events of the album.

* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Happens slightly in ''Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness.''

** 21:13 is named in homage to Music/{{Rush|Band}}'s album ''2112''.

* LoudnessWar: Pretty much everything they did clips badly, except some of the acoustic stuff.

Here's a list, but, be warned, [[WordSaladTitle the titles]] [[LongTitle are ridiculous]]:

* LongTitle: ''The Second Stage Turbine Blade'' and ''In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3'' aren't ''too'' bad. But then there's ''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''.

* DrugsAreBad: Michael Todd's history of drug issues eventually got him kicked out of the band after he got arrested in Massachusetts while on tour for robbing a Walgreens and absconding with six bottles of oxycodone.

** 21:13 is named in homage to Music/{{Rush}}'s album ''2112''.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "A Favor House Atlantic" is not actually called "Good Eye Sniper", OR "Bye Bye Beautiful".

* VillainSong: Parts of "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" are from the perspective of General Mayo Deftinwolf.
** "The Velourium Camper III: Al The Killer" for Al and "Key Entity Extraction III: Vic the Butcher" for Vic also count.

* WhamEpisode: Or rather, Wham Song, as the title song Window of the Waking Mind suddenly makes Vaxis’s position a lot more clear. Not to mention the presence of a few simple words in the liner notes to drive it home: [[spoiler:Part III: *Key Entity Extraction VI*]].

* AdultFear: Coheed and Cambria are forced to [[OffingTheOffspring kill three of their four children early on]], with the youngest (the twins, Matthew and Maria) getting poisoned and the oldest (Josephine, who had recently ''gotten engaged'', and shortly after, ''gang-raped while her fiancé is beaten'') getting ''beaten to death with a hammer.'' The second oldest, Claudio, was out with his girlfriend when it happened, and when he gets home [[spoiler: he finds Josie dead on the kitchen floor.]]
** More directly is both Afterman albums, born out of all of Claudio’s anxieties about the worst-case scenarios that could happen with his marriage. [[spoiler: from your wife moving on after you are presumed dead, to her being preyed upon by predatory bar dwellers without you there to protect her, to killing your wife via an accidental car crash, to the doctors saving you instead of your wife and unborn child because you are famous but they are not.]] It’s a hell of an emotional roller coaster.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: While they are often associated with prog-rock/prog-metal, they also incorporate elements of alt-rock, pop-punk, post-hardcore, indie rock, emo, space rock, hard rock, and pop-rock among other genres.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Done in a weird meta way, as [[spoiler: the Writer has no intention of killing Ambellina until his relationship in the real world with Erica Court goes sour, after which he decides to kill the character based on her to make Claudio realize his destiny]].

* ''Vaxis - Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures'' (Oct 2018)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Most of their songs are 6-7, with the rest at around 5.
** 'Wake Up' is about a 1.

Coheed and Cambria is a prog rock band from New York, not a kind of cigar. Their concept albums tell a science fiction story taken directly from lead singer/guitarist's comic book, ''The Amory Wars''.

* AdultFear: Coheed and Cambria are forced to [[OffingTheOffspring kill three of their four children early on]], with the youngest (the twins, Matthew and Maria) getting poisoned and the oldest (Josephine, who had recently ''gotten engaged'', and shortly after, ''gang raped while her fiancé is beaten'') getting ''beaten to death with a hammer.'' The second oldest, Claudio, was out with his girlfriend when it happened, and when he gets home [[spoiler: he finds Josie dead on the kitchen floor.]]
** More directly is both Afterman albums, born out of all of Claudio’s anxieties about the worst case scenarios that could happen with his marriage. [[spoiler: from your wife moving on after you are presumed dead, to her being preyed upon by predatory bar dwellers without you there to protect her, to killing your wife via an accidental car crash, to the doctors saving you instead of your wife and unborn child because you are famous but they are not.]] It’s a hell of an emotional roller coaster.

** Year of the Black Rainbow suggests that it's a combination of her own choice, and a punishment for acting against Paranoia's instruction.

** ''Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness'' has ''two''. It starts with the orchestral instrumental "Keeping the Blade", which then segues into "Always and Never", a short acoustic song which flows into the ''actual'' opening track, "Welcome Home".

** The phrase “I’d do anything for you” and it’s variants appear through most of the albums, sometimes used romantically (like in Good Apollo) and sometimes used in the context of familial love (The Crowing, Domino the Destitute)

* ArrowCam: In the music video for "Blood Red Summer", when Claudio is using a compound bow to defend a barricaded house against his zombified band mates, the arrow he shoots at Josh is followed by the camera until it hits him in the chest. Unfortunately for Claudio, Josh only spits up some liquid and staggers a bit before [[AnnoyingArrows yanking the arrow out]] and continuing his advance.

* AuthorAvatar: Claudio Kilgannon, who both looks like and is named after Claudio Sanchez. His siblings are also named after Claudio Sanchez's real life siblings. InUniverse, Claudio Kilgannon is the AuthorAvatar for the Writer... who is ''also'' an avatar of Claudio Sanchez, to the point of sharing his real life relationship troubles.

** It extends to RealLife too: the back-up singers for the Neverender concerts were both blonde, and Claudio's wife is blonde to boot.

* TheChosenOne: Claudio Kilgannon is the Crowing, a prophesied god-like savior. It makes sense in a weird way, since even within the story, he is the AuthorAvatar of the Writer.

** ''Unheavenly Creatures'', a soft-reboot intended to set up a five album story based around the character of Vaxis, returns to the Amory Wars continuity.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: While they are often associated with prog-rock/prog-metal, they also incorporate elements of alt-rock, pop punk, post-hardcore, indie rock, emo, space rock, hard rock, and pop rock among other genres.

** ''Year of the Black Rainbow'' featured a much darker, less melodic style of prog-metal, with industrial rock and space rock influences thrown thoughout. This change is part of what makes this album the black sheep of the band's main discography.

** ''The Color Before the Sun'' takes a complete detour from their previous outings and delves more into the alt rock and pop rock genres. It also ditches the concept the band had been running with in favor of singular songs.

[[spoiler: ''Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV'' stands out; Jesse is killed in a fight with Mayo Deftinwolf, Wilhelm Ryan escapes with the Red Army, and The Writer murders Ambellina in front of Claudio. And when The Writer returns to the real world through the Willing Well, he's shot by police after slitting Erica Court's throat.]]

* DownerEnding: Frequently, but ''Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV'' stands out; Jesse is killed in a fight with Mayo Deftinwolf, Wilhelm Ryan escapes with the Red Army, and The Writer murders Ambellina in front of Claudio. [[spoiler: And when The Writer returns to the real world, he's shot by police are slitting Erica Court's throat.]]

** The Prize Fighter Inferno's song "Elm Street Loverboy" is about [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]].

Coheed and Cambria is a prog rock band from New York, not a kind of cigar. Their concept albums tell a science fiction story taken directly from ''The Amory Wars'' comics, written by Claudio Sanchez (the lead singer).

Each studio album (bar ''The Color Before The Sun'') corresponds to a chapter in the comics, and they were released in more or less the same order.

** 78 is also the number of planets in the Keywork

* AudienceParticpationSong: During live shows, the whole crowd tends to chant the chorus of "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3".