The Second Stage Turbine Blade is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. It was originally released on March 5, 2002 through Equal Vision Records. It is their first album and part one of a tetralogy, telling the story of The Amory Wars. It was re-released on September 20, 2005, and included three previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Story The album introduces the husband and wife characters Coheed and Cambria, the characters from whom the band's name originates.
This album is one of five Coheed and Cambria albums (the others being Year of the Black Rainbow, Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures, Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind, and the non-conceptual The Color Before the Sun) not to have a multi-part suite, as In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 had the "Camper Velourium" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness had the "Willing Well" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow had the "End Complete" series, The Afterman: Ascension and Descension albums had the "Key Entity Extraction" series, and Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe had the "Continuum" series.
Track listing
Note: On the standard ten-track edition, the hidden track "IRO-Bot" is contained in "God Send Conspirator"; however, on the deluxe edition, it is contained in the "Everything Evil" demo.
Personnel Coheed and Cambria Claudio Sanchez – lead vocals, rhythm guitar Travis Stever – lead guitar Michael Todd – bass guitar, vocals Josh Eppard – drums, piano
Additional Michael Birnbaum – production, mixing Chris Bittner – production, mixing Jayson Dezuzio – recording, pre-production Roger Lian – mastering Nate Kelley – drums (on "Delirium Trigger" and "33") Dr. Know – guitar (on "Time Consumer") Todd Martin – recording (on "Delirium Trigger" and "33") Montana Masback – additional vocals (on "Hearshot Kid Disaster")
Tie-in comics In the summer of 2004, Evil Ink Comics released a series of ten comic books as a tie-in to the album. Written by Claudio Sanchez and illustrated by Wes Abbot, the comics tell the story of Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon, a married couple who become unwittingly involved in interplanetary intrigue.
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