Coheed and Cambria have announced their first Canadian tour in 8 years this September to correspond with the announcement last week of their monstrous 15 song, 78 minute new LP, The Unheavenly Creatures, due Oct 5 on Roadrunner Records. The 8 city tour will have support by seminal metal progressive band, Protest the Hero, and Crowns Land.
Last Friday, Coheed and Cambria announced details of their long awaited new album and label return, The Unheavenly Creatures. The sprawling fifteen track, self-produced, 78 minute epic finds Coheed and Cambria returning to the conceptual narrative of The Amory Wars. Today the band has launched pre-orders for the album’s deeply immersive Vaxis – Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set: http://www.coheedandcambria.com/. Pre-orders for The Unheavenly Creatures standard album will begin Friday, June 29th, with new music from the forthcoming LP arriving next week.
Set for release on October 5th, the box set includes an exclusive eighty-plus page hardcover illustrated sci-fi novel with strikingly realistic color imagery by Chase Stone, as well as the complete Act 1 novella written by frontman Claudio Sanchez and his wife, Chondra Echert. The set also houses a fully-wearable hard-plastic mask of the main character in The Unheavenly Creatures, a CD copy of the album, as well as the exclusive bonus album, The Crown Heights Demos, showing the songs in their original written form. Additional items include a 3-panel fold out poster of expanded album cover art, and the Unheavenly Creatures Black Card which will allow all card holders early access to tickets and early entry to Coheed and Cambria headline dates (including this summer’s tour).
Coheed and Cambria recently released The Unheavenly Creatures’ 10-minute prog manifesto, “The Dark Sentencer,” which was leaked to fans by frontman Claudio Sanchez along with the opening paragraphs from the album’s aforementioned novella. “’The Dark Sentencer’ opens with prickly guitars that build into a stadium-sized thump,” noted Rolling Stone while Revolver declared, “the soaring song with its rolling guitar riff could soundtrack the montage to any intergalactic underdog story.” Consequence of Sound hailed “The Dark Sentencer” adding, “Gang vocals and ephemeral harmonies underscore the band’s trademark shredding.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am, while those who are signed up to the band’s mailing list will get first crack at the tickets. VIP tickets will be available.
CANADIAN TOUR DATES:
September
12 Vancouver BC Commodore Ballroom
14 Edmonton AB Shaw Conference
15 Calgary AB MacEwan Hall
16 Saskatoon SK O’Brian’s Event Centre
18 Winnipeg MB Burton Cummings Theatre for the Performing Arts
20 Toronto ON Rebel Complex
21 Montreal QC L’Olympia
22 Quebec City QC L’Impérial Bell
