Coheed and Cambria

Coheed and Cambria emerged from the US alternative scene in the early 2000s, offering a blend of fictional sci-fi lyrics and a barrage of sprawling, face-shredding riffs. New York native Claudio Sanchez founded the band in 1995 under the name Shabutie with Travis Stever on guitar, Michael Todd on bass and Nate Kelley on drums. The latter was soon replaced by Josh Eppard on drums, and the band's cult following grew with their debut album The Second Stage Turbine Blade and its gold-winning follow-up In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. Coheed and Cambria signed a major label deal with Columbia Records and enjoyed commercial success with albums such as Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (#7 on the Billboard 200 chart), Vol. 2: No World for Tomorrow (#6 on the Billboard 200) and Year of the Black Rainbow (#5 on the Billboard 200) in 2010. The band toured with Iron Maiden and replaced Todd with bassist Zach Cooper before releasing the companion albums The Aftermath: Ascension and The Aftermath: Descension in 2012 and 2013. Both albums reached #5 on the Billboard 200 and were based on the character of Sirius Amory. Leaving behind the sci-fi concepts that underpinned earlier albums, Coheed and Cambria developed a direct, sincere punk-pop thrash with The Color Before the Sun (2015), then signed to Roadrunner Records and returned in 2018 with Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures, an epic prog-rock colossus that revisited the band's fictional narratives. Another concept album, Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind, followed in 2022. The following year, the debut album The Second Stage Turbine Blade returned to the Billboard 200, where it reached number 70. Another studio album, The Father Of Make Believe, followed at the end of March 2025. The album reached number 51 in the US charts and number 70 in the UK.

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