Album Rating: 3.5

Shit there are going to be 5 Vaxis albums? They better get to work on that shit. I'm at the point with Coheed where I just delete the songs I don't like from whatever albums and listen to the shit I enjoy. I can probably name like 3 bands I'm a huge fan of where I like every album so it's just kind of the reality that your favorites are going to eventually become hit or miss with each release.

At least with Coheed every album (besides TCBTS for me) has at least one or two great songs to pluck out. I'm kind of surprised by all the Ladders of Supremacy disdain here. It's not their best song but I really like it and both the intro and outro are fantastic.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I disagree that Ladders is Coheed "by the numbers".

I agree that The Audience and The Dark Sentencer are predictable 'Heed, but Ladders is the closest they've sounded to GA1 in a while, and the Police-esque verses are something new. It's not mind-blowing, but the segue into Rise, Nianasha is seamless and makes the final 3 songs feel like a suite of their own.

I'm away for work and find that's the best time to get immersed in a record, this one is my soundtrack to this jaunt. Beautiful Losers has grown on me so much, it started off as a bit of a 'Made Out Of Nothing' track, but it's such a solid song.

They've played some of the new stuff live including Beautiful Losers, Blood, Our Love and Window- that one especially really shines in a live setting.

This is definitely my favourite Coheed since Ascension. Bumping to a 4.

Album Rating: 3.5

Big agree on Ladders of Supremacy. It's not their best prog song but goddamn I had a smile on my face the first time I heard it as it went through all of the intro section. The whole song leading to the culmination of Claudio belting out "climbing up their ladders of supremacy / was it everything you had dreamed?" is a great payoff. If anything it feels like it would fit into the End Complete suite.

Rise, Naianasha is one of the best songs they've released since Good Apollo I. It really grew on me a ton and like you said, having Ladders lead straight into it just elevates the song.

There's enough great material between Vaxis I and II that I think if you trimmed the fat off the overly long Vaxis I songs and got rid of the weaker tracks on both of these, you'd have a 4.5 or 5.0 album.

Album Rating: 4.0

I really dont understand the Vaxis I love. This album is so much stronger.

Album Rating: 4.0

Bruh there are a couple of pretty boring tracks in the middle of the record, but the first five tracks are fucking fire and it definitely ends on a pretty high note. I can’t even fault them for the missteps all that much considering how much they’re trying to branch out stylistically on this one.

Album Rating: 3.0

Beautiful Losers, Disappearing Act, Love Murder One and Bad Man are all slappin hard for me right now

Album Rating: 2.5

Oh god there's going to be FIVE Vaxis albums?

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I would kill for another album from Coheed that resembles any of their first four albums. In my opinion their third one ("Good Apollo IV"), despite not being the most solid in terms of album cohesiveness compared to the first ("Second Stage Turbine Blade"), managed to take the catchy, emo-esque/pop-punky kind of upbeat thrash elements from SSTB and marry it with the beautifully layered textures and epic song structures of their second LP ("In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3") to produce something truly fucking incredible that they're unlikely to ever match again, sadly.

At least they're always almost guaranteed to be a great fucking live band...

...provided that Mic Todd's oxy plug had his gear in stock, anyway. (yikes...I kid, I kid.) I actually hope that he's doing better - I can definitely empathize with his struggles - and from what I've heard he seems to be doing good, I wish that they'd bring him back into the fold. Coheed's sound massively suffered when Josh Eppard wasn't behind the kit for a stretch and his return was felt immediately Him and Todd were *such* a nasty fucking rhythm section, just not the same now.

Also, anyone who thinks coheed sucks or "doesn't get" them - give one of their little multi-part/multi-song suites/detours that they've done on albums a spin. By this I'm referring to something like the "Velourium Camper" tracks off of IKSSE3 ("Backend of Forever" still all these years later never fails to give me goosebumps by the end of the track), and especially the 5 "Willing Well" tracks off of Good Apollo IV.

Those Willing Well tracks - in my eyes - manage to capture this band at the very peak of their sound and creativity. Shit, I'm going to have to go give those a listen right now...been too long.

Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed. Whilst I do think, maybe, the title track in this album is the most progressive song they've done since The Willing Well's (and I love that). Nothing quite encapsulates the raw energy, emotion and technicality of what Coheed achieved in The Willing Well suite. You could take any of those songs, and still argue that any single one is better than anything on this album, or the previous 7 albums before it. They're that good!

Album Rating: 3.5

seeing them tonight excite

Album Rating: 3.5

Agree with mike. There's nothing like that Mic Todd - Josh Eppard rhythm combo.

Totally agree

Album Rating: 3.0

Listening through the album right now it's really not even a bad album musically, but as a longtime fan I was hoping for more story. But I really don't get a feel for the main characters, why they're powerful, why I should be afraid of the villains. My disappointment is all about the story and probably not anything that matters to most people on this site. That being said, best songs on the album are...



Shoulders

Blood (Dat GA reference)

Rise Naianasha

Was anyone else at the Pittsburgh show tonight? That was probably my favorite show of all time.

Album Rating: 4.5

"I really dont understand the Vaxis I love. This album is so much stronger."

Very much agreed. Vaxis I had only a few standouts and a lot of filler, this one is basically the inverse.

This is much better than the previous album and actually feels like it's a mix of their entire discography. Really like that.

Album Rating: 3.5

boston show was also fantastic. band was absolutely on point

coheed and cambria has become the most convoluted canon ever made