COHEED AND CAMBRIA — The Second Stage Turbine Blade (review)

COHEED AND CAMBRIA — The Second Stage Turbine Blade album cover Album · 2002 · Metal Related Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Genre: progressively inclined alternative rock/metal

Compared to their later releases, this debut album by Coheed and Cambria is more on the rock side than on the metal side, drawing on so-called emo rock, noise rock, power pop, post-punk rock and progressive rock.

But the metal influences are there, and I think that tracks like "Devil In Jersey City", "June Provision Song", and "Elf-Tower New Mexico" (a bonus track on certain reissue versions) are straight metal songs with some progressive elements though, while other tracks like "Time Consumer", "Everything Evil", "Neverender" and "33" roam the the fuzzy no-man's land between alternative rock and alternative metal, and tracks like "Hearshot Kid Disaster" and "God Send Conspirator" will probably not be readily accepted as having anything to do with metal by many metalheads (although there are some metal elements in even those tracks).

On the whole, I like the melting pot of style on this album, and as a rock album I like it very much, and would probably give it a 4-star rating, but given that this is a metal music database, I will give it a 3-star rating.
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