- Mon, 2010-07-26 12:58
Few bands, if any, can boast such a comprehensive conceptual bedrock as Coheed & Cambria. Every note that they play and every word that they sing tells the story of The Amory Wars, a sci-fi saga devised by lead singer Claudio Sanchez. April 2010 saw the release of the band’s fifth album, Year Of The Black Rainbow, which acted as a prequel to 2002’s debut, The Second Stage Turbine Blade. From that album comes World Of Lines and its accompanying video.
World Of Lines is, as one would expect from Coheed, an epic tune, combining the riffage of early Thrice with the soaring vocals of AFI to create a track that thunders along at breakneck speed. The intricate guitar embellishments that typify the band’s sound are present and correct, though at just over three minutes and with none of the structural oddities that are so often on show in their music, this might be the closest Coheed have yet come to a conventional rock song.
Not to worry though, the video more than makes up for any suggestion that World Of Lines might be lacking the band’s characteristic eccentricity. Put together by Sanchez, the clip takes scenes from the 1927 silent film Metropolis, the most expensive silent film ever to be made. A near mythological work, Metropolis is a dystopian science-fiction from the same stable as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, both its rough contemporaries. Its influence can be seen on virtually all science-fiction films with a political bent, and it’s little wonder that it appeals to the other-worldy imagination of Claudio Sanchez.
