(His son, Atlas, is now four.) “That was the first and only record I could write from an autobiographical standpoint,” he says. The band paused that knotty narrative with 2015’s The Color Before the Sun, a more compact song cycle born from Sanchez’s excitement and fears of fatherhood. If I can’t get issue one, I’m just not going to read it.'” It’s like a monthly issue comic book, like, ‘I don’t want to get invested into this 10 issues in. “Concept records in themselves are not weird, but for a band to continue a concept over their discography can be a little intimidating to somebody on the outside.
He’s referring to “The Amory Wars,” the gargantuan sci-fi saga that his band, prog-rock quartet Coheed and Cambria, have unfurled over the last 16 years. “What we’re doing is weird,” Claudio Sanchez admits with a belly laugh.
