Just making a single concept album is a pretty serious undertaking for a typical rock band, but for progressive hard rockers Coheed and Cambria, that’s beginner stuff: The band from New York has put out seven albums to date in the ambitious world of The Amory Wars, each its own narrative that forms part of a larger story created by band frontman and songwriter Claudio Sanchez. Influenced by prog-rock groups like Rush and Pink Floyd, as well as punk and hardcore, C&C combine the scope and ambition of concept albums from the classic rock era with the energy and intensity of heavy metal and punk.

After seven albums exploring the world of The Amory Wars, C&C took a break from the sprawling science-fiction world with 2015 album The Color Before the Sun, which offers a simpler and more straightforward songwriting style. The Amory Wars may only be on hiatus, but whatever Sanchez and C&C do next, it will be just as ambitious and just as genuine.

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