Wow! Nothing like a thread coming back from the dead.
They seem to be getting bigger now, though. I was flipping the channels a few months ago and they had the "The Devil In Jersey City" video on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball". Just last night, the video for "A Favor House Atlantic" was on the REAL MTV. It's almost frightening.
They're decent live. If you're looking for a band that nails the album absolutely perfect, you'll be disappointed. Claudio regularly shies from the microphone when he's playing and lets the crowd scream out for him, but he can still do the tight riffing while singing, too. I saw them a few weeks ago at the Troc in Philly and they did an encore jam of "Everything Evil" which was excellent.
And DFelon's right. The sound's much more diverse on this album.
SSTB had the same general feel to a lot of the songs which helped the album feel more like a one-sitting experience (even if the second track starts with a drum beat very reminiscient of ATDI). This album covers more ground. The Cheap Trick-esque "Blood Red Summer", the metallic "Al The Killer" and the pop-punkish "A Favor House Atlantic" are good tracks in their own right but none sound too out of place in the order of the album or in concern to the story.
Sorry to be shoveling a ton of praise on CoCa, but it seems that they're an accessable band. I have a friend who only listens to heavily-distorted hardcore, thinks Every Time I Die is "whiney" and only goes to shows to punch people in the face or spinkick a row of people and he digs them. I'm just spreading the love.
