COHEED AND CAMBRIA — Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (review)

COHEED AND CAMBRIA — Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness album cover Album · 2005 · Metal Related Buy this album from MMA partners
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Genre: progressively inclined alternative metal

As with the two preceding albums, Coheed and Cambria's style on this one is not easy to categorize, as they draw on progressive rock, emo rock, noise rock, alternative rock, and heavy metal, but I think that the metal influences on this one are much more prominent than on the two previous albums, and, for my money, this is essentially a metal album.

Tracks like "Welcome Home", "Ten Speed (of Good's Blood and Burial)", "The Suffering", "Crossing the Frame" and "The Willing Well I" are even bordering on traditional heavy metal, while songs like "Once Upon Your Dead Body", "The Lying Lies and Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court", and "The Willing Well II" are more in the alternative metal department. Other tracks like "Apollo I: The Writing Writer" and "The Willing Well III" paddle the waters between alternative rock/metal and progressive metal with their ambiguous rhythms and distorted guitars and occasional use of noise effects.

Personally, I consider this a metal album, and I think it's a great album which I'd recommend to any open-minded metalhead as well as fans of alternative rock and new progressive rock.
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