"Coheed and Cambria is to music what Dungeons & Dragons is to board games. Baffling to outsiders, compulsively addictive to fans." - New York Post

Yep, I got my tickets to Coheed and Cambria today. I'm damn excited about it. I can't wait. Check out the blurb from the Ticketek site (below). It sounds pompous and over the top, and it is a little, but that's just part of the package. I'm currently enamoured with their latest album (titled "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume 1. From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness"). Here's the blurb:

The band not only references Pink Floyd and Rush, Led Zeppelin and the Police, but does so in a song cycle about a doomed couple, their children and their roles in an epic story of universal conflict, betrayal, heartbreak and violence forging an amazing blend of emotions and moods for the listener.

Euphoric, conceptual, challenging, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV is the latest instalment in the group's daringly ambitious prog-rock/sci-fi tale. The 71-minute Good Apollo bravely goes where no band has gone before with its mind-melting meld of medieval metal majesty, mathematical intricacy, fleet-fingered fretwork, sprawling arrangements and doom-laden lyrics.

Speaking of lyrics... here's currently my favourite:

Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs

Nice stuff.