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