COHEED AND CAMBRIA — In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (review)

COHEED AND CAMBRIA — In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 album cover Album · 2003 · Metal Related Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Cuts marked in the march of men...

Genre: progressively inclined alternative metal / rock

Ever hard to categorize, Coheed and Cambria primarily roam the more rock side of things on this album, like they did on their debut. However, on the whole, "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" is more metallic than its predecessor.

For instance, the title track "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" is very much a metal song, which even contains riffage that could have been written by a post-2000 Iron Maiden, and "The Crowing" and "Cuts In The March Of Men" while probably somewhere in between alternative rock and alternative metal contain enough heavy metal features for them to gravitate towards heavy metal territory (and they're very good tracks, too, if you ask me), while "Three Evils" sounds like uplifting-80s-party-metal-meets-00s-American-power-pop, but with some emo and Maiden-esque elements to it. This track is a good example of how Coheed and Cambria manages to seamlessly blend elements from various types of hard rock music into their own brand of melodic progressively oriented alternative metal. The "The Camper Velorium" trilogy draws primarily on progressive rock and heavy metal, and I would argue that one the whole, all three tracks in this "suite" are ultimately instances of heavy metal - especial part III, which is not just a hard-hitting track, but also one of my favorite tracks by Coheed and Cambria. "Blood Red Summer", "A Favor House Atlantic", and "The Light & The Glass" are further eamples of tracks that blend alternative and progressive rock with heavy metal, containing riffage that is very typical of traditional heavy metal, blending it in with emo and power pop and noise rock elements. The final track, "21:13", which is the hidden track after the annoyingly many empy tracks of silence, is also one of my favorite Coheed and Cambria tracks, and, ironically, it is the most progressive track they'd made to date, and it also contains some very heavy parts.

For my money, this album is essentially an alternative metal album, although the elements from other types of rock music are aplenty - but to me, the intersectoin where they all come together what they all have in common with heavy metal. I would recommend this to fans of alternative metal, traditional heavy metal, new progressive rock as well as alternative rock, noise rock and so-called emo rock.
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