Story Albums are Indeed a Thing to Check Out

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/coheed-and-cambria-silence-superheroes-at-comic-con-yahoo-crash-concerts-20121130

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mar1mSlDsM

A little before this time a year ago, San Diego's Comic Con was rocking the geek universe. What many people did not know was that a rock band was also there.  A surprise performance by graphic novelist and front man for the band Coheed and Cambria was a major hit amongst both fans of progressive rock, and comic books alike. Claudio Sanchez, the front man as mentioned above, was at the Con promoting his own graphic novel, the Armory Wars, and decided it was time for an acoustic performance. Nervous at the reactions and feedback he might get from the audience there, he managed to silence the buzz of geek culture and his voice was heard. Some fans began to sing along, while others though to themselves, I should really check this band out. There new two part album, The Aftermath, was just around the bend at this point and was inadvertently promoted through this acoustic concert.

Coheed and Cambria. I personally don not care for the progressive rock band, but my boyfriend happens to be huge nerd over the different sounding graphic novelist turned rockstar. As a background, all of Coheed and Cambria's music is a continuing story of love, hatred, and sci-fi wars in which people gain powers and destroy worlds. Although I am not a fan of this band in particular, I do think it is cool that bands do these concept albums. I feel like it all kind of started back with bands like Rush and Genesis. Rush did a song back in the 70s called 2112 which was a story by itself and Genesis did something similar with the sing Suppers Ready. The whole idea of concept albums seems pretty popular within the prog rock sub genre and are something interesting to check out. No songs about drugs, politics, or other things that can get in the way of good music. Just a continuing story that one can really get into. I personally am open to more music like this. It seems really cool that a musician can tell such a complex story through lyrics and sound, rather than printed words and pictures. Now I do have to say that some better bands should probably make these albums. Coheed and Cambria, Rush, and Genesis just aren't very good in my book. I'd like to see bands such as Breaking Benjamin or Death Cab for Cutie do albums such as this. Overall, I love the idea of concept albums and would encourage more people to listen.