Credit: LeAnn MuellerOn Coheed and Cambria's most recent album, 2015's The Color Before the Sun, the band took a break from their long-running Amory Wars concept, a sci-fi storyline that's been told continually throughout their discography. But speaking with ABC Radio, frontman Claudio Sanchez confirms that Coheed's next album, due out later this year, will be returning to the concept.

"The next record is actually the first part of a pentalogy inside the Amory Wars," Sanchez explains, "pentalogy" being a fancy word for a five-part story.

He adds that, chronologically, the new album follows the events of Coheed's 2007 effort, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow.

As for why Sanchez wanted to step away from the Amory Wars for The Color Before the Sun, he explains that he had something pretty momentous happening in his personal life that he wanted to share through his music.

"I took the break because my son was being born, it was this whole new experience for me, and I just wanted to champion that in a record," he says. "I definitely missed doing the concept, but not at that moment in time."

Making this new album, however, made Sanchez realize how much he "missed" and "appreciated" the storyline Coheed had built.

"That's why it's gonna be a pentalogy," he says. "It's gonna have some weight within the Amory Wars."

Coheed and Cambria plan to play some of the new material on the band's upcoming co-headlining tour with Taking Back Sunday, which begins July 6 in Miami. Live Nation is offering $20 tickets for shows on the tour through its National Concert Week promotion, which concludes Tuesday, May 8.

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