

Modern progressive rock band Coheed and Cambriaâ€™s upcoming sixth studio album will be a double concept album entitled, â€˜The Afterman,â€™ and will be released in two separate full-length volumes. The band made the announcement today via a cinematic video trailer on their official website. The first volume, â€˜The Afterman: Ascension,â€™ will be available on both physical and digital platforms October 9, 2012 via Hundred Handed/Everything Evil, and distributed through Fontana/Ingrooves. The second volume, â€˜The Afterman: Descensionâ€™ is slated for release in February 2013. The band has also confirmed a handful of intimate Northeast U.S. club shows leading up to the release of â€˜The Afterman,â€™ starting September 13 in Kingston, NY (dates are below).

The trailer, a 90-second black and white classic film-noir style short, from director Robert Schober, depicts a cosmonaut preparing to leave his spaceship for a journey into a mysterious unknown; over an instrumental Coheed and Cambria musical bed. Watch the visual now at www.coheedandcambria.com

A deluxe version of the â€˜The Aftermanâ€™ will include a hardcover coffee-table book with expansive art by Heidi Taillefer and Nathan Spoor with collaborative written work from singer/creator Claudio Sanchez and writer Peter David that will create a song by song experience. David previously worked with Sanchez on the prose novel adaptation of the bandâ€™s 2010 album â€œYear of the Black Rainbow,â€ and the graphic novel adaptation of their 2003 album â€œIn Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (which reached #4 on the New York Times Bestsellers list for graphic novels earlier this year).â€ All the bandâ€™s titles, including â€˜The Afterman,â€™ fall into a grand sci-fi story arc called â€˜The Amory Wars.â€

It was announced previously at this monthâ€™s San Diego Comic Con that The Amory Wars has been picked up by Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson of Leverage Productions to be developed into a live-action feature film.

Musically, â€˜The Aftermanâ€™ sees the band perfecting their powerhouse progressive rock, soul and even pop landscapes. The dual release also marks the return of original drummer Josh Eppard, who the band parted ways with in 2006, bringing with him his benchmark percussive grooves. Coheed and Cambria self-financed and co-produced â€˜The Afterman,â€™ alongside Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner, who produced the bandâ€™s first 3 albums, in Woodstock, NY. The album was mixed by Rich Costey (Muse, The Shins, Foster the People) and Ryan Williams (30 Seconds To Mars).

â€œThis is without a doubt, the most honest record Iâ€™ve ever written,â€ says Sanchez. â€œThough all the songs can be interpreted through our main character in the story, they were initially written in a very spontaneous manner.â€ â€œIn the past,â€ he continues,â€ Iâ€™ve always had a predetermined idea of what the story was going to be when I approached the songs. With â€˜The Aftermanâ€™ being a new story within the (â€œThe Amory Warsâ€) arc, I allowed the events of my life to drive the concept, and therefore opened up the songwriting to a fuller degree.â€

Coheed and Cambria is currently on the road with rock legends, Iron Maiden.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

AUGUST

01 Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre with Iron Maiden

02 Reno, NV – Knitting Factory*

03 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre w/ Iron Maiden

04 Sacramento, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheater w/ Iron Maiden

06 Phoenix, AZ – Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion w/ Iron Maiden

07 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater*

09 Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre w/ Iron Maiden

10 Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater w/ Iron Maiden

12 Albuquerque, NM – Hard Rock Pavilion w/ Iron Maiden

13 Denver, CO – Comfort Dental Amphitheater w/ Iron Maiden

15 San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center w/ Iron Maiden

16 Pharr, TX – Pharr Events Center*

17 Dallas, TX – Gexa Energy Pavilion w/ Iron Maiden

18 Houston, TX – Woodlands Pavillion w/ Iron Maiden

*Headline show

24 Reading, UK – Reading Festival

25 Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival

SEPTEMBER

13 Kingston, NY – Ulster Performing Arts Center*

15 Chicago, IL – Riot Fest Chicago

16 Charlotte, NC – WEND Wienie Roast

19 Buffalo, NY – Town Hall*

20 Toronto, ON â€“ Mod Club*

21 Rochester, NY – Water Street*

22 Albany, NY – Hart Theater at The Egg*

24 Syracuse, NY – Wescott Theater*

25 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground*

26 Hartford, CT Webster Theater*

28 Worcester, MA – Palladium**

29 Atlantic City, NJ – House of Blues**

* w/ 3

** w/ 3 and Deerhunter

OCTOBER

31 Hamburg, DE – Grunspan

NOVEMBER

01 Dortmund, DE – Visions Westend Festival

02 Utrecht, NL – Tivoli

04 Brussels, BE – VK Club

05 Paris, FR – La Fleche D’Or

08 London, UK – Koko

09 Glasgow , UK- ABC

11 Birmingham, UK – Academy

12 Manchester, UK – Ritz Ballroom

About The Amory Wars: An epic, sci-fi fantasy set in an alternate universe (Heavenâ€™s Fence) that chronicles the rise of superhuman dictator Wilhelm Ryan, and the one family that could hold the key to liberating the world from his tyrannical reign. The mythology was originally created by Sanchez to serve as inspiration for the bandâ€™s albums, but the series expanded to other mediums, including both prose and graphic novels.

About The Afterman: Sirius Amory, the most celebrated astronomer/scientist in the alternate universe of Heavenâ€™s Fence is â€˜â€˜The Afterman.â€™ Sirius (pronounced â€œSy-ruhssâ€) is credited with the discovery of the energy force (known as The Keywork) that binds the 78 planets of these worlds together. He embarks on the greatest discovery of his existence, and possibly mankindâ€™s. By doing so, what is truly most important to him begins to slip right through his fingers.

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