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Coheed and Cambria Drops New Sci-Fi Anthem Rager “The Dark Sentencer”
Coheed and Cambria have returned today with their first single in three years, “Dark Sentencer”, presumably off their forthcoming album arriving later this year through Roadrunner Records. The band dropped the 10-minute long track this morning via YouTube, which is a welcoming return to form after their departure on 2015’s The Color Before the Sun. “The Dark Sentencer”, which is an anthem rager, returns to the sci-fi theatrical concept that made them famous.
Check out this lengthy discription of the song…
“Years ago, chaos cut through this atmosphere. The fractured worlds that inhabit this space were once locked in a force of uncontrollable destruction. Gravity was lost. Their planetary trajectories conjoined in one catastrophic collision, choking to remain viable even as the dying glow of their cores peek through the cracks and scars of those impactful moments. Yet a gasp is a sign of life and the planets that many might have cast off as annihilated space continued to show a pulse across the hopelessness. This discarded earth is still very much alive…and made profitable by the 5 Houses of the Star Supremacy, an elite society who looked to the sky and saw potential in the wasted planets. The opportunistic approach could hardly be considered an act of empathy for the human condition, as the decision to convert the dying planets into private prisons meant another type of life sentence awaited those shipped off to their remote reaches. Here, the desolate and derelict would burn away slowly, trapped in a race to death with the very ground they stand on. In this space, between the Well and unknowing.
Our Story Starts there. Into our future, yet far beyond our past. In a romance between a pair of Unheavenly Creatures.
Weaving through the blacked out space toward the freckling of cracked planets, The Gavel moved like a funeral procession. In many ways, it was the end of life for the two prisoners being transported within its unmitigable walls, to the most deplorable and prized of the doomed prisons, known simply as The Dark Sentencer.”
This summer Coheed and Cambria will set out on a U.S. co-headline tour with Taking Back Sunday and special guests The Story So Far. The 28-city U.S. tour, produced mostly by Live Nation, will begin on Friday, July 6th in Miami, FL and make stops in Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Austin, Denver, Las Vegas and more. The summer tour will culminate in a performance at Comerica Theatre in Phoenix, AZ on Sunday, August 12th (see attached itinerary). Tickets for all dates are on sale now. For tickets and more information please visit www.CoheedandCambria.com.
COHEED AND CAMBRIA 2018 TOUR DATES
JULY
06 – Miami, FL – Bayfront Park Amphitheater
07 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
08 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place
10 – Atlanta, GA – Chastain Park Amphitheater
11 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
13 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
14 – Charlotte, NC – Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
15 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Pavilion
17 – Boston, MA – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
18 – Philadelphia, PA – Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
19 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
21 – Brooklyn, NY – Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk
22 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE – Outdoors*
23 – Columbus, OH – Express Live! Outdoor Amphitheatre*
25 – Minneapolis, MN – Armory
26 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
27 – Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
29 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
31 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
AUGUST
02 – Sugar Land, TX – Smart Financial Centre
03 – Austin, TX – Austin360 Amphitheatre
04 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
06 – Denver, CO – Sculpture Park
07 – Salt Lake City – Union Event Center*
09 – Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre*
10 – Las Vegas, NV – The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
11 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre
12 – Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre
We learned a couple weeks back that the band Ice Nine Kills is joining forces with the slasher video game Dead by Daylight, with an Ice Nine Kills Collection inspired by the heavy metal band now available. Along with the collection, a tie-in music video has been unleashed.
Ice Nine Kills enter the fog today with “Play Dead,” a brand-new single and music video created in collaboration with Dead by Daylight. Written for the game’s 10th Anniversary, “Play Dead” brings Ice Nine Kills into one of horror gaming’s most iconic worlds, uniting two genre-obsessed universes built on suspense, survival, mythology, and the thrill of the kill.
The track was created in collaboration with longtime Dead by Daylight composer Michel F. April and arrives alongside the in-game Ice Nine Kills Collection, allowing players to represent the band inside the game’s ever-expanding horror universe with unique DLC.
Stream “Play Dead” here and watch the Ice Nine Kills music video below!
Ice Nine Kills’ brand new music video for “Play Dead” features Devon Sawa (Final Destination, “Chucky”) and Krsy Fox (Terrifier 3), along with the legendary Tony Hawk.
Ice Nine Kills mastermind Spencer Charnas tells us, “Ice Nine Kills has always lived somewhere between menace and mischief. ‘Play Dead,’ our take on Dead by Daylight, is a collision of hooks, horror, and total chaos. As lifelong horror fans, we find it surreal and an absolute honor to have Ice Nine Kills’ music officially tied to Terrifier, Scream, Ready or Not, and now, the iconic survival horror game Dead by Daylight.”
“Collaborating with Dead by Daylight gave us the chance to step into a world that feels deeply aligned with our creative instincts,” Charnas continues. “The game has an incredible legacy, and that chaotic, eerie, immersive energy is something we respect and admire. We wanted the song to feel like a real extension of that universe, not just inspired by it, but genuinely part of it.”
“Dead by Daylight has always been about celebrating horror in all its forms, and Ice Nine Kills shares that same passion for the genre we have,” said Mat Côté, Head of Partnerships for Dead by Daylight. “We’ve always been big fans of their music, and their creativity and deep connection to horror culture made this collab feel incredibly natural. We’re excited for our players to represent the band in-game with the Collection we created together, and we can’t wait for everyone to experience the new Dead by Daylight crossover track the guys cooked up.”
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