{"id":8334,"date":"2012-12-27T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2012-12-28T00:11:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T07:11:55","slug":"coheed-and-cambria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/12\/coheed-and-cambria\/","title":{"rendered":"COHEED AND CAMBRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8335\" title=\"COHEED-AND-CAMBRIA-M-Review-NOV-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COHEED-AND-CAMBRIA-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COHEED-AND-CAMBRIA-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COHEED-AND-CAMBRIA-M-Review-NOV-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>C<\/strong><strong>OHEED AND CAMBRIA<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Afterman: Ascension<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Hundred Handed\/Everything Evil]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Products of the early-\u201900s emo boom, Coheed and Cambria distinguished themselves with an evolved, complex punk sound, basing all of their albums around a continuing fantasy storyline, <em>The Amory Wars<\/em>. Their sixth album, <em>The Afterman: Ascension<\/em>, continues the epic tale with all of the pageantry one would expect. At times mathematical, Coheed\u2019s song structures display a prog-like aptitude, but like all good storytellers they understand the value of details, as displayed in the romantic keyboard suites, savvy use of strings and occasional guttural screams. Newcomers need not be daunted by the legacy of the concept albums leading up to <em>Afterman<\/em>\u2014it isn\u2019t necessary to interpret the rallying cries and love songs as dialogue between characters. Though sprinkled with sci-fi allusions, this space odyssey\u2014which continues next year with \u00a0<em>The Afterman: Descension<\/em>\u2014is more Warped Tour than\u00a0Comic Con. \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COHEED AND CAMBRIA The Afterman: Ascension [Hundred Handed\/Everything Evil] Products of the early-\u201900s emo boom, Coheed and Cambria distinguished themselves with an evolved, complex punk sound, basing all of their albums around a continuing fantasy storyline, The Amory Wars. Their sixth album, The Afterman: Ascension, continues the epic tale with all of the pageantry one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,5598,5597,5594,5596,5475,5595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8338,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions\/8338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}