The Prize Fighter Inferno - My Brother's Blood Machine
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Coheed and CambriaTeam Sleep
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The Spill Canvas
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1. The Going Price for Home2. The Fight of Moses Early & Sir Arthur McCloud
3. Our Darling Daughter You Are, Little Cecilia Marie
4. A Death in the Family
5. The Margretville Dance
6. Accidents
7. Run, Gunner Recall, Run! The Town Wants You Dead!
8. Who Watches The Watchmen?
9. Wayne Andrews, The Old Bee Keeper
10. The Missing McCloud Boys
11. Easter
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Dear Claudio Sanchez,
First off, let me start by saying your stuff in Shabutie was promising from the start, and you absolutely capitalized on it with a truly original and perplexing debut with Coheed and Cambria. Second Stage was impressive, and if nothing else, made me curious to hear more. I was never one of your Trekkie-like nerds that sought out the meanings and metaphors within each song on message boards, but I was always interested enough to know what was going on via a very nerdy, now-pathetic friend.
But then your band released In Keeping Secrets. And sure, it was alright, but you managed to top your own formerly endearing pretentiousness. I managed to suck it up and follow through with your curious tale, though.
Then – abortion.
What gave with IV? Let me just say it was no Jedi and it certainly was no Empire, so can you please explain? But as horrendous as IV was, what really concerns me is the Coheed and Cambria prequel My Brother’s Blood Machine, your solo release under the moniker The Prize Fighter Inferno.
I understand that in IV – as far as the epic goes – Jesse AKA Inferno AKA Coheed’s brother AKA the narrator dies. But then you decide to resurrect him on present-day Earth, which predates the C&C story, to tell the story of My Brother’s Blood Machine? Is that correct? If so, fuck you.
We all enjoy a good story and concept album, but you’re getting warped and starting to make the The Mars Volta look like the humble beginnings of a garage rock band. I fully appreciate the attempt at something new with The Prize Fighter Inferno; the fully acoustic guitar approach really works towards your advantage, and I definitely approve of the electronic attempt – even though it drastically sucks. Pull your brain out of your ass, and write an album we all know you’re fully capable of, sans arrogance please.
“The Blood Machine revolves around three families, but two are more important than the third,” you say. “The Bleam family is very much like a backwards Looney Tunes family where the husband and wife are insanely addicted to meth. The wife is out of her mind, and she thinks that God has come to her with a higher calling for her children, Longarm and Butchie Bleam. The mother tells them that God has given them a calling where they are the new 'dealers of death.' The sons believe that when the body dies the soul escapes, so they construct The Blood Machine in order to capture the soul when it leaves the body.”
You suck at story telling. But damn you’re a talented guitarist, as shown on Blood Machine’s “The Flight of Moses Early & Sir Arthur McCloud” and “Our Darling Daughter You Are, Little Crecillia Marie,” and “Run, Gunner Recall, Run! The Town Wants You Dead!” So what the hell is your problem you turd? Your guitar work is never in question, but what’s with these electronic-beat abominations? Were you developing these on the MS-Paint of beat programs? You should’ve coughed up the dough for someone else to make them because you clearly have no talent in doing so. Instead of just having a thematically retarded, acoustic guitar album, you’re left with a thematically retarded, acoustic guitar-electronica atrocity. But hey, at least your vocals and melody have returned to better form from IV.
I really think you’ve got the skills and potential to make a remarkable album, with or without a deficient story line. I suggest you take this as a learning experience, and write an album for someone other than yourself. I don’t suggest sacrificing your originality or artistic freedom, but if you really want to do something different, here’s an idea: Stop writing about this stupid story for one small album and challenge yourself with something new. Make a new, unrelated, uncomplicated, unretarded story, or even better yet, don’t make a concept album at all. We all know you can do it, and until then I suggest you make a worthwhile solo album where you don’t suck your own dick for almost 45 minutes.
Fuck You,
--Kamran Rouzpay
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Agreed, this review is terrible. I won't buy this album and I don't give a shit whether or not this guy thinks it sucks, but this review is shit...sorry.
Cincinnati, OH
As for ranting on Claudio for continuing the story - I agree, it'd be cool to see what he'd do for a bit if he abandoned the Coheed story and just wrote... not doubt, but seriously - how the hell can you fault a dude for sticking true to his guns. It seems the more artistic a band gets, the more shit they get. If you want to say "This album made to satisfy yourself doesn't particularly satisfy me", then I have would have no choice but to respect that. To say "Hey - cut that shit out and quit being pretentious - put something we'd all like out" - that's bullshit. If they were going down a path you liked while being artsy, maybe you were one of the few that shared similar tastes in "art" as them... but then all of a sudden they put out an album with far broader mass-populous appeal, you'd bitch them out for being "sell-outs". There's not winning as a creator of any medium if you play to what you think people want, because you can often be wrong.. so what can you do to garauntee your own personal goals of sucess if not monetary success by lucking it out or "selling out" - you create something that you are personally proud of. At the end of the day, be sales good or bad, be reviews good or bad, if you did what was in your head and what you wanted to do - at least you have that. I just have a huge problem with your basis for attacking the artistic want of a band. If it's not your deal then move on and let them deal with poor sales.
I personally give this album 3.5 stars. It's good and I like it, but it's very short and not overly varied - but I still find myself listening to it a lot as I do like the catchy electronic element that he added in.
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I appreciate the electronica on this album. I love how Juvenile it sounds. The tarot card album art is exceptionally creative, Claudio's vocals are always unique and impressive, and each song is fun to sing along to.
This album is a collection of songs Claudio has been recording over the course of seven years. It isn't a massive Good Apollo-era brain fart. This album is what Claudio is capable of, the tunes he has playing in his head when he isn't writing for Coheed. I don't hear pretense, and I don't hear suck.
I really enjoy this album.
Your review is fine and good, but I really think it is far too caustic to be anything anyone is going to agree with, Kamran.
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Having said that, I know I'll go back to it, because I love practically everything Claudio's done, and personally I think IV has some of Coheed's best tracks on it.
And come off it, why would you want Claudio to do something different? That's what you have other artists for. Claudio Sanchez makes music FOR this story. If you don't like it, then don't write him off for it, listen to another band.
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West Haven, CT
The truth about Coheed And Cambria is that orignally there was one cd supposed to be made with one story and at the end they died, in the process Claudio wanted to have a single short story book or comic etc etc. A bunch of "under ground indie kids" started hearing the hype about these guys and they had a little street cred and went on playing even though they remained on the verge of giving up for about 10 months.
As it turned out people started going to shows after they went on tour with bigger acts such as Thursday,Thrice etc etc.
That brought them money and semi-fan which brought them more chances for this story to get bigger and "better"
Apperantly they lost the spark with IV, and Claudios story wasn't being told right through the art forms. Most of it orignally wasn't written that big which is why it's full of loose ended bullshit that has no real meaning(till he writes it). IV(the idea,concept,people in it,cd) was bascially written in under a few months and ended up not impressing too many persons. the 2nd stage turbine blade, was written half story/half reality, Newo Ikkin= Nikki Owen(Claudios girlfriend who broke up with him and moved out to California and wouldn't talk to him anymore)
The Prize Fighter Inferno was a side project of music that Claudio would randomly make while bored,jamming,jerking off his guitar. This random story is another improv he pulled out of his ass, which also problay is short ended and is full of "mystery" The cd it's self is awesome, it has it's momments where it is bland but for the most part Claudios vocals and melodies are some of the best since sttb and his guitar skills reamin tight and Travis' help on a few parts is very smooth and just right for the sound. This cd deserves a 4-5.
Besides josh and Mic left the band so R.I.P Coheed And Cambria.
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West Haven, CT
You didn't really "tear this album up"
It's a pretty decent cd, Claudio's vocals are alot better,i'd rather hear his higher pitched voice, rather than that annoying Mike Jones pitch he uses live and on the new cd in like every other track.
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