Coheed & Cambria and the Amory Wars

For you not in the know, all the songs released by Coheed and Cambria in all their four albums are the narration of a intergalactic battle known as the Amory Wars.I am not really into this Amory Wars comics, and I personally think that it’s too over the top and ridiculous at some point, (note: I have not read the whole series, I am basing my critique for the few pages that I have read and in the few essays I found in the net.)But I am impressed in the ability of Claudio Sanchez to use his song-writing skill to narrate a long epic, which was also written by himself. And also on his ability to make the song feel that you are damn involved in the actual epic. An example of this is ‘In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3′ from the album of the same name, which really makes you feel that you are actually going into war. But some of the songs have a very different feel from what he is actually stating. Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow) tells of ’severing limbs from the torso’ and pulling the trigger to stop the nightmare, yet it has a very upbeat kinda pop-rock feel into it. Overall, kudos to this band for pulling off 4 albums of full of theme songs for a storybook, and actually having listeners who stick  to the songs even though they don’t know shit about what it means. Very few bands can pull that off.