Year of the Black Rainbow

by Coheed and Cambria

Year of the Black Rainbow cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 April 2010
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 53:55
  • Community rating: 2.98/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Joe Barresi, Brian Dembow, Chris Pennie, Travis Stever, Michael Todd, Atticus Ross, Claudio Sanchez

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a narrative prequel to their sprawling 'Amory Wars' science fiction saga, the band enlisted producers Atticus Ross and Joe Barresi to introduce a noticeably darker, mechanical edge to their sound. The resulting project blends their hyper-melodic, progressive rock complexities with dense, grinding industrial textures, polarizing their dedicated fanbase while completing their central conceptual storyline.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, conceptual, progressive

Tracklist

  1. One (1:54)
  2. The Broken (3:53)
  3. Guns of Summer (4:46)
  4. Here We Are Juggernaut (3:44)
  5. Far (4:53)
  6. This Shattered Symphony (4:25)
  7. World of Lines (3:17)
  8. Made Out of Nothing (All That I Am) (4:39)
  9. Pearl of the Stars (5:04)
  10. In the Flame of Error (5:27)
  11. When Skeletons Live (4:16)
  12. The Black Rainbow (7:32)

Credits

  • Coheed and Cambria - primary artist, music by
  • Michael Todd - bass
  • Chris Pennie - drums, percussion
  • Travis Stever - guitar, backing vocals, steel guitar [lap]
  • Wes Styles - keyboards [additional]
  • Nina Webb - product manager
  • Peter Stahl - production manager, tour manager
  • Claudio Sanchez - vocals, guitar, synthesizer [synths], keyboards, lyrics by, concept by, concept by [art conceptualized by]

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