Vintage Vinyl Records: Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow

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The eagerly awaited prequel to "The Amory Wars" tetralogy, Year of the Black Rainbow provides the long awaited prelude to the band's four previous inter-related concept albums -- The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) - which comprise "The Amory Wars," the conceptual narrative driving the band's lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. Year Of The Black Rainbow is also likely to be the final installment of the narrative of "The Amory Wars."

Year of the Black Rainbow is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). The new record also features the studio debut of Coheed and Cambria drummer Chris Pennie, who has been playing alongside Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Robert Todd since 2007 and was featured on Neverender: Children of the Fence DVD.

TRACK LISTING
1. One
2. The Broken
3. Guns of Summer
4. Here We Are Juggernaut
5. Far
6. This Shattered Symphony
7. World of Lines
8. Made Out of Nothing (All that I Am)
9. Pearl of the Stars
10. In the Flame of Error
11. When Skeletons Live
12. The Black Rainbow

Deluxe Edition CD/DVD+Book Edition Only
13. Chamberlain (Demo) Previously Unreleased Bonus Track
14. The Lost Sheperd (Demo) Previously Unreleased Bonus Track
This limited edition is beautifully packaged in a hard bound media slipcase which includes a 352-page Year of the Black Rainbow novel, penned by the band's Claudio Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling author Peter David. In addition to the CD with two bonus tracks and novel, the deluxe edition will include a "Making of" DVD featuring studio and interview footage.

DVD: "The Documentary Every End Has A Beginning: The Making Of "Year Of The Black Rainbow" Directed By David Shafei & Pete Shanel. Features interviews with the band and producers. ? Special Features - 5 Teaser Trailers

Year of the Black Rainbow - The Novel: NOVEL "Year of the Black Rainbow" Written by Claudio Sanchez and Peter David. Hardcover, 352 pages. English.

Welcome to the world of Heaven's Fence, where a lattice of mysterious energy known as the Keywork binds and sustains life on a triangular network of planets--from the bleak and hellish Howling Earth to the spare beauty of Bendelesh. Beneath the Keywork's glow, under the governance of the twelve grey-skinned Mages and the watchful gaze of the winged Prise, humanity goes about its daily life unaffected by the goings-on of the higher powers at work in the universe. Until the day when the ambitious Wilhelm Ryan, newest member to the brotherhood of Mages, acts on his growing discontent at being branded another ordinary Mage, ruling over one lowly Sector. Shrewd, and silver-tongued, Ryan launches the Mage Wars: a devastating campaign to win control of the entire Fence and take on the legendary mantle of Supreme Tri-Mage, a position likened to God himself.

A companion piece to the album of the same name by the music group Coheed and Cambria, written by the band's leader Claudio Sanchez, along with best-selling author Peter David, Year of the Black Rainbow is a powerful introduction to a fascinating world, by turns thoughtful and funny, heartbreaking and pulse-pounding. This journey into Heaven's Fence will be welcomed by longtime fans and newcomers alike.