In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth

by Coheed and Cambria

Overview

Coheed and Cambria continue to combine metal, pop, and sometimes punk influences on In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. The high-register vocals of Claudio Sanchez are reminiscent of Shudder to Think's Craig Wedren. The vocals combined with the glam metal-pop music of such tracks as "The Velourium Camper I: Faint of Hearts" and "Blood Red Summer" can at times bring out the influences of Queen, T. Rex, or the Cars, and the recent influences of Cap'n Jazz or Jets to Brazil. Coheed and Cambria could look a bit more to these influential bands that they take from and cut down on song length and tedious poetry. The production of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 keeps the passionate emotion at bay. The double-tracking of guitars can give an interesting metal-influenced sound, as on "Cuts Marked in the March of Men" and "The Crowing," but production choices hold back the distortion and push up the reverb, keeping the whole record a bit too safe. Coheed & Cambria are at their best when they combine the half-time chumpdowns of Braid-like emo with late-'70s/early-'80s-influenced glam pop stylings. "Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)" and "The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer" are Coheed and Cambria's best examples of their uses of angular, driving metal and passionately sung/screamed double-tracked vocals. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 furthers Coheed and Cambria's efforts to make an epic record, but that may only be in length and a grand vision of the final outcome that falls a bit short. ~ David Serra

Product Details

Release Date:	06/29/2004
Label:	Bmg / Bmg / Sony Music
UPC:	0888430564220
Rank:	32398

Tracks

1. The Ring in Return
2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
3. Cuts Marked in the March of Men
4. Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)
5. The Crowing
6. Blood Red Summer
7. The Camper Velourium I: Faint of Hearts
8. The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever
9. The Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer
10. A Favor House Atlantic
11. The Light & the Glass

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Coheed and Cambria   Primary Artist
Travis Stever   Guitar
Danny Louis   Keyboards
Luc Van de Ven   Bass
Avalon Peacock   Choir/Chorus
Rachel Havens   Choir/Chorus
Julia Nichols   Choir/Chorus
Josh Eppard   Drums
Michael Todd   Bass

Technical Credits

Chris Bittner   Engineer,Producer
Travis Stever   Group Member
Michael Birnbaum   Engineer,Producer
Roger Lian   Mastering
D. Sandshaw   A&R
Justin Meyer   Drum Technician
Curtis Tanner   A&R
Kwame 'Gangstrophagus' Wiafe Akenten   Group Member
Josh Eppard   Group Member
Michael Todd   Group Member
Bill Scoville   Design,Art Direction
Luc Van de Ven   Group Member
Blaise James   Navigator
Avalon Peacock   Group Member
Rachel Havens   Group Member
Julia Nichols   Group Member
Coheed and Cambria   Composer