The Amory Score

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The Amory Score #3: Everything Evil Jun 01, 2017

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Friends, welcome back to Episode 3 of The Amory Score, where we take you track by track through the most ridiculous and inscrutable Star Wars rip off ever made, the works of Coheed and Cambria. When last we left our heroes they had murdered three (3) of their children, and they about to ask themselves a question you should never, ever ask in that situation:

"Wait, why the fuck did we kill our kids again?"

Also, roll out the red carpet, for today brings the arrival of The Special Boy, destined to be the most special boy in all the starts, and do the special boy thing in a few albums time. Star Wars.

The Amory Score #2: Devil in Jersey City May 25, 2017

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Hello and welcome to the number one Coheed and Cambria podcast on iTunes! I checked, and shockingly there aren't any others, so it's us or bust, baby.

This week we're talking about the second song, Devil in Jersey City, which means there's a strong content warning on this episode for discussion of rape, sexual assault and violence against women. This song contains some of the worst tendencies of the bands early-era edgelord misogyny, and we talk about it head on.

I think there's good discussion here about the way misogyny can evolve into more 'respectable' forms and the weird cognitive dissonance that can come from revisiting something you loved as a teenager, but if you want to skip this one due to the subject matter, I totally understand

The Amory Score #1: Time Consumer May 18, 2017

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Welcome friends, one and all, to the launch of The Amory Score, where we begin our journey track by track through the terribly ridiculous and ridiculously terrible story of Coheed and CambrIa's sci fi epic: The Amory Wars. This week, we're listening to Time Consumer, the opening song from 2001's Second Stage Turbine Blade, wherein we are introduced to our heroes as they murder their own children, for reasons explained only by backstory we are never given.

We start as we mean to go on.

The Amory Score: Episode Zero May 13, 2017

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Hello everyone! Today we're launching a new podcast: The Amory Score, a journey through the ridiculous music and story of everyone's favourite mid-00s concept band, Coheed and Cambria. If you have no idea who Coheed and Cambria are, then don't worry, we've got a primer episode here to give you the context you need before blasting off into the main thrust of the cast next week.

If you don't even have time to listen, then never fear, here is the opening of their Wikipedia page:

“Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York, formed in 1995. The band consists of Claudio Sanchez (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards), Travis Stever (lead guitar, backing vocals), Josh Eppard (drums, keyboards), and Zach Cooper (bass) The group's music incorporates aspects of progressive rock, pop, heavy metal, and post-hardcore.

Most of Coheed and Cambria's albums are concept albums based on a science fiction storyline called The Amory Wars, a series written by Claudio Sanchez, which has been transcribed into a series of comic books as well as a full-length novel”

-The Collective Edits of Many Nerds

It sounds so simple when you write it out like that.