Roadrunner Records group Coheed and Cambria have announced new U.S. headlining tour dates. The trek, which kicks off November 3rd in Albuquerque, NM, features support from Maps & Atlases and Thank You Scientist. Fan club presale tickets will be available beginning Wednesday, September 12th at 11am local time, with general onsale beginning Friday, September 14th at 10am local time. For updates and more information, please see coheedandcambria.com.
Coheed and Cambria’s new studio album and Roadrunner Records debut, THE UNHEAVENLY CREATURES arrives Friday, October 5th. The album is available for pre-order HERE, with all orders receiving instant grat downloads of recently released tracks “The Gutter,” “Unheavenly Creatures” and “The Dark Sentencer.”
Pre-orders are also currently underway (but nearly sold out) for the deeply immersive VAXIS – ACT I: THE UNHEAVENLY CREATURES – LIMITED EDITION DELUXE BOX SET, which includes an exclusive eighty-eightpage 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 box 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 three-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. For more information on VAXIS – ACT I: THE UNHEAVENLY CREATURES – LIMITED EDITION DELUXE BOX SET, please visit coheedandcambria.com.
Boasting 15 songs over 78 minutes, THE UNHEAVENLY CREATURES marks Coheed and Cambria’s furious return to concept albums, the ‘First Act’ in a brand-new story arc set within the backdrop of The Amory Warsuniverse. The LP was heralded earlier this summer with the arrival of its title track, “Unheavenly Creatures,” joined by an official video, streaming at the band’s official website HERE. Directed by P.R. Brown, “Unheavenly Creatures” takes us inside the story’s opening chapters where we see two captured criminals (Creature and Colossus) being walked through a ship on their way towards judgment for committed against society, and perhaps, one another. The video premiered via an exclusive interview with Sanchez at Marvel.com; Sanchez also joined Marvel’s weekly podcast, “This Week In Marvel,” for an extended discussion of THE UNHEAVENLY CREATURES and much more, streaming HERE.
“Unheavenly Creatures” has been greeted by instant critical applause, with EW declaring the album “as majestic as its narrative suggests: Pummeling intros, arena-rock riffs, and celestial synths make for one of the year’s most intricate, head-spinning listens.”
Coheed and Cambria made their long-awaited return this spring with the arrival of “The Dark Sentencer,” the first new music to be released by the band since their acclaimed 2015 LP, The Color Before The Sun. Leaked to fans by Sanchez along with the opening paragraphs from the album’s aforementioned novella, the 10-minute prog manifesto made a massive global impact with Revolver declaring, “The soaring song with its rolling guitar riff could soundtrack the montage to any intergalactic underdog story.” “’The Dark Sentencer’ opens with prickly guitars that build into a stadium-sized thump,” noted Rolling Stone while Consequence of Sound hailed “The Dark Sentencer,” adding, “Gang vocals and ephemeral harmonies underscore the band’s trademark shredding.”
Coheed and Cambria – who only just wrapped a U.S. co-headline trek with Taking Back Sunday that showed the band closing out each night to the biggest headline audiences of its career – will celebrate THE UNHEAVENLY CREATURES with a wide-ranging global tour, including upcoming visits to Canada and the United Kingdom. Additional headline dates will be revealed soon. For updates and more information, please see coheedandcambria.com.
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
2018 TOUR DATES
9/12 – 9/22 – Canadian Headline Tour
10/9 – 10/16 – UK Headline Tour
11/3 – 11/14 – US Headline Tour
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
OCTOBER
09 – Cardiff, UK – Y Plas
10 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3
12 – Newcastle, UK – O2 Academy
13 – Manchester, UK – Academy
14 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy
16 – London, UK – Roundhouse
NOVEMBER
3 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
5 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
6 – Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall
7 – Saint Louis, MO – The Pageant
9 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
10 – Fort Wayne, IN – Piere’s
12 – Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection
13 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
14 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City