Music
Coheed and Cambria Announce New Album ‘Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind’ for May 27th!
At long last, Coheed and Cambria has finally announced details of their widely anticipated new album, Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind, an ambitious thirteen-track epic produced by the band’s own Claudio Sanchez and Zakk Cervini that will be released worldwide on May 27th.
“Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind welcomes us back to “The Amory Wars” as the 2nd installment of the five-part “Vaxis” arc about a couple on the run from tyrannical forces and their mysterious new addition,” explains the press release.
Today the band has launched pre-orders for the album on DSPs and for the collection’s deeply immersive Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set.
The album’s limited edition deluxe box set includes the exclusive 96-page illustrated hardcover novel “A Window of the Waking Mind” which was developed by Sanchez and written by his wife Chondra Echert with strikingly realistic color artwork by Chase Stone.
The 9” x 12” box set also houses an exclusive Quintillan Speaker Containment Unit Lamp (approx. 8” diameter), a 3-panel fold-out poster of expanded album cover art, and the A Window of the Waking Mind Black Card which will allow all cardholders early access to tickets and early entry to Coheed and Cambria headline dates! All box sets will also come with a CD copy and download of Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind along with an official Certificate of Authenticity.
Furthermore, fans who pre-order the limited edition box set before January 23, will receive autographed copies and have their name included within the pages of the accompanying illustrated hardcover novel. For more information on Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set, visit www.coheedandcambria.com.
Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind includes the recently released singles “Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord)” and “Shoulders”, the latter of which vaulted into the Top 10 at Active Rock Radio, marking the group’s career highest radio chart position to date.
Coheed and Cambria will celebrate the forthcoming LP with “The Great Destroyer Tour,” a U.S. headline run that will feature support from special guests Sheer Mag. The coast-to-coast trek is set to get underway on February 16th with a sold out show at the legendary Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, CA and will continue through mid-March giving audiences an opportunity to see the band live in intimate clubs across the U.S. For tickets and more information on the “The Great Destroyer Tour,” visit www.coheedandcambria.com.
VAXIS II: A WINDOW OF THE WAKING MIND
- The Embers of Fire
- Beautiful Losers
- Comatose
- Shoulders
- A Disappearing Act
- Love Murder One
- Blood
- The Liars Club
- Bad Man
- Our Love
- Ladders of Supremacy
- Rise, Naianasha (Cut the Cord)
- Window of the Waking Mind
“THE GREAT DESTROYER TOUR” WITH SPECIAL GUESTS SHEER MAG
Feb 16 – Pappy and Harriet’s – Pioneertown, CA (SOLD OUT)
Feb 17 – Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV
Feb 19 – El Rey Theatre – Albuquerque, NM
Feb 20 – Rialto Theatre – Tucson, AZ
Feb 22 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City
Feb 23 – The Soundstage at Graceland – Memphis, TN
Feb 25 – Mars Music Hall – Huntsville, AL
Feb 26 – The Fillmore – New Orleans, LA
Feb 28 – The Mill & Mine – Knoxville, TN
Mar 01 – The Signal – Chattanooga, TN
Mar 02 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC
Mar 04 – The NorVa – Norfolk, VA
Mar 05 – The National – Richmond, VA
Mar 06 – PromoWest Pavilion at OVATION – Newport, KY
Mar 08 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO
Mar 09 – The Sylvee – Madison, WI
Mar 11 – Clyde Theatre – Fort Wayne, IN
Mar 13 – GLC Live at 20 Monroe – Grand Rapids, M
Mar 14 – Main Street Armory – Rochester, NY
Mar 15 – Empire Live – Albany, NY
Mar 17 – Fete Music Hall – Providence, RI (SOLD OUT)
Mar 18 – College Street Music Hall – New Haven, CT
Mar 19 – XL Live – Harrisburg, PA (SOLD OUT)
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.
You must be logged in to post a comment.