COHEED AND CAMBRIA

Vaxis II: A Window On The Waking Mind ROADRUNNER

GARY MACKENZIE

New York alt-proggers head back to familiar territory on ninth album. Coheed And Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez has spent more than two decades building an ambitious mythology based around The Amory Wars saga, his series of interlocking comic books and novels that have provided the basis for eight of the band’s nine albums. Vaxis II: A Window On The Waking Mind sees these singular denizens of Nyack, New York picking up the story established on 2018’s Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creature. “There’s a glut of irresistibly catchy choruses throughout.” Throughout their career, the band have had one foot in the world of alt-rock/emo, and another in the prog sphere. Vaxis: Act I and that album’s non-conceptual predecessor The Color Before The Sun dialled the grandiosity back in favour of…

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