Coheed and Cambria ran a countdown clock on their official website over the weekend encouraging fans to submit their phone numbers for a special announcement via phone call and/or text before the general public. Since Coheed just released an album last year most people assumed they’d be using this countdown to announce a tour, and waddayaknow, they were right! Cool idea on Coheed’s part for a way to build hype around a tour announcement.

I just received a phone call from an “unknown” number with a difficult to decipher recording playing, but I got the gist: tour soon, password “secrets.” And then a few minutes later I received a text with a link to this page offering up tour dates and pre-sale links.

This is no ordinary tour, though: the band will be playing their landmark second album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 in its entirety. I never much got into that album — I prefer the one directly after it — but I know diehard Coheed fans go gaga for it, so that should be fun. Thank You Scientist will support on all dates, which are as follows in September and October, getting the band home to NY just in time for Comic Con: