Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV Vol. 1
Coheed and Cambria’s new album, *deep breath* Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness, hits stores one month from today, but the album’s first single has been floating around online for a while now. Today, I was able to track down two more and I have to say I’m looking forward to this album a great deal. Of course, that puts even more pressure on Coheed and Cambria to deliver, since they also have to make up for the physically painful disappointment of Make Believe, Weezer’s latest album.
From the Coheed and Cambria site:
Coheed And Cambria return with their highly anticipated third album release - GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOLUME ONE: FROM FEAR THROUGH THE EYES OF MADNESS. The intricate title only hints at the density and complexion of the music it contains.
The band’s musical growth is mind-blowing with GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOLUME ONE. It is a rock fans’ ultimate dream album - monster rock riffs, epic jams, catchy hooks, and intricate time changes. The new album is also the first half of the third installment of the band’s daringly ambitious prog-rock/sci-fi tale of young Claudio Kilgannon - who is out to avenge the deaths of his parents (Coheed And Cambria) and his three siblings. The new album has a twist however: this one steps outside the story and focuses on the writer of the tale, and how the goings-on in his own life affects the outcome of the story he’s in the midst of writing.
TRACK LISTING
Disc 1 (Audio)
1. Keeping The Blade
2. Always & Never
3. Welcome Home
4. Ten Speed (Of God’s Blood & Burial)
5. Crossing The Frame
6. Apollo I : The Writing Writer
7. Once Upon Your Dead Body
8. Wake Up
9. The Suffering
10. The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
11. Mother May I
12. The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End
13. The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
14. The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
15. The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut
Here are the MP3s from the sampler. Disregard that high variable bit-rate; the ripper obviously encoded from a lower bit-rate source, despite the NFO saying the source was a CD. The first track is incredible, the second track is…I’m not sure how I feel about the second track, and the third track is excellent as well, if a little depressing. Ch-ch-check em out:
01 - Welcome Home (7.7mbs)
02 - The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (9.5mbs)
03 - Wake Up (4.6mbs)
