The Second Stage Turbine Blade

This album is the first album in their discography. For some it is where their love for Coheed began, For others it is the album they discovered later on. For me it is one of my favorite albums just simply for the raw emotion that went into it. It is rough and unrefined. Their music was punk and emo fused together. If you had a rough day and were angry about something this is what you went to. Let's get into my favorite tracks off this album. "Everything Evil" is one of the best tracks off this album. I say this for the reason of how well it fits as the soundtrack to the graphic novel. My second reason is at the 3:30 mark of the song it really takes off. The song picks up speed and the guitar rifts start going from rhythm to solos and back again. Near the end of the song there is a part where Claudio sings "Would you run down past the fence?" The fence in Coheed and Cambria songs refers to "Heavens Fence" that is seventy eight plants formed into the shape of a triangle. During live shows this is one of the coolest parts with all the exitement and jumping in the crowd.

The next song I am going to talk about is "Delirium Trigger". The way this song starts out you can tell its going to be intense. The guitars are loud and ominous and the drums forceful and creeping. Then at the 0:20 mark it breaks loose to screaming. You could relate this song to the Alien movie by Ridley Scott. Another awesome song from this album is "Junesong Provision" for its' awesome intro. There is a demo version of the song that uses a line from the movie "Army of Darkness". The line is "Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up. See this? This...is my BOOMSTICK!" In the movie the main character says this line when he is surrounded by a bunch of medieval people who are trying to hurt him. Then he fires his shotgun aka his boomstick. When you catch lines from movies or references to stuff in their music it really is a cool moment. The song starts out talking about how the protagonist misses his girlfriend. When he was communicating to her, he asked if their dog had been being a good boy and he asked her to give him a kiss on the head for him. He was worried that he wouldn't make it back to them alive. I relate this to the solders in war, missing their family back home; wanting to be home, but also wanting to keep the enemy away.