Coachella Performance Hailed As “One Of The Best Of The Fest” (Buzzbands.la) As Headline Shows Sell Out Multiple Nights In DC and Philadelphia, As Well As Boston, Atlanta, Austin, Salt Lake City and More

Coheed and Cambria’s brand new fifth studio album Year Of The Black Rainbow (Columbia) has entered the Billboard 200 at #5, selling 51,377 copies. Spurred by a series of sold-out pre-release dates and the burgeoning presence of first single “Here We Are Juggernaut,” the record’s first week sales mark a career high chart position for the band.

Additionally, Year Of The Black Rainbow’s elaborate deluxe edition, featuring a 352-page novel co-authored by Coheed’s Claudio Sanchez and best-selling author Peter David, accounted for over 15,000 of the record’s first week sales. Pre-orders for the deluxe edition necessitated a second print run well before the record’s April 13 release.

Having wrapped a triumphant Coachella main stage appearance with a performance of “Welcome Home” featuring the USC Marching Band-one that has generated in excess of 30,000 YouTube plays in the last 72 hours-Coheed and Cambria will embark on what’s shaping up to be the band’s highest grossing headline tour to date beginning April 22 at a sold out Fillmore in Charlotte NC. Other shows that have already gone clean on the tour, which features support from Circa Survive and Torche, include Atlanta, Lake Buena Vista and Fort Lauderdale FL, Austin TX, Pomona CA, Salt Lake City, Boston, two nights each in Philadelphia and Washington DC. Additionally, a May 29 Atlantic City date has been added due to popular demand.

Finally, Coheed and Cambria has pitched in with tour mates Circa Survive and Torche to donate the proceeds of a limited edition silk screened poster by renowned artist Emek. Only 250 of the extremely limited posters will be made, with all copies numbered and signed by all three bands and auctioned off online. All proceeds will go to Oxfam America’s efforts to fight poverty and injustice the world over, including a leading role in providing assistance to Haiti in the aftermath of the recent Earthquake.

Check www.coheedandcambria.comfor further tour dates, information, etc.

04/22/10 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore* SOLD OUT
04/23/10 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle* SOLD OUT
04/24/10 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues* SOLD OUT
04/25/10 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution* SOLD OUT
04/27/10 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live*
04/28/10 – Austin, TX – Stubbs Waller Creek Outdoor* SOLD OUT
04/29/10 – Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom*
04/30/10 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom*
05/01/10 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom*
05/03/10 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre*
05/04/10 – Pomona, CA – Fox Theatre* SOLD OUT
05/05/10 – San Francisco, CA – Roseland Theater*
05/07/10 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater*
05/08/10 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo*
05/10/10 – Salt Lake City, UT – Murray Theater* SOLD OUT
05/11/10 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theater*
05/13/10 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue*
05/14/10 – Chicago, IL – Congress Theater*
05/15/10 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theater*
05/17/10 – Boston, MA – House of Blues* SOLD OUT
05/18/10 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis*
05/19/10 – Toronto, ON – Sound Academy*
05/21/10 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory* SOLD OUT
05/22/10 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory* SOLD OUT
05/23/10 – Columbus, OH – Rock on the Range
05/26/10 – New York, NY – Rumsey Playfield, Central Park*
05/27/10 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club* SOLD OUT
05/28/10 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club* SOLD OUT
05/29/10 – Atlantic City, NJ – House of Blues* (Just Added)

* with Circa Survive, Torche

Support for the upcoming tour will be Circa Survive and Torche. Tickets go on sale Saturday, February 20th.

The band recently made available a first taste of Year of the Black Rainbow by streaming the new song “The Broken” at www.coheedandcambria.com. The song is also available for purchase on iTunes, where it climbed to #5 on the Alternative Chart within hours of its release.

Produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool), Year of the Black Rainbow is the eagerly awaited prequel to-and likely the final installment of–the Amory Wars tetralogy chronicled on Coheed and Cambria’s four previous inter-related concept albums–The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007). The deluxe edition of the record, currently available for pre-order at www.coheedandcambria.com will include a 352-page Year of the Black Rainbow novel, penned by the band’s Claudio Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling author Peter David, as well as a “Making of” DVD featuring studio and interview footage and a Coheed and Cambria “Black Card,”providing fans early entrance to shows, discounts on band merchandise and exclusive downloads and offers.

Year Of The Black Rainbow’s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs on the northeastern U.S., six of which are now sold out.

Tour dates

Mar
W/Earl Greyhound
23 Rochester, NY – Harro East Theatre & Ballroom
24 Syracuse, NY – The Westcott Theater (SOLD OUT)
25 Clifton Park , NY – Northern Lights
26 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
28 Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
29 Hartford, CT – Webster Theater (SOLD OUT)
30 Scranton, PA – Hardware Bar (formerly Tinks) (SOLD OUT)
31 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (SOLD OUT)

Apr
17 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival

With Circa Survive, Torche
22 Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
23 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
24 Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues
25 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
27 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
28 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Outdoor
29 Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom
30 Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
May
01 Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
03 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre
04 Pomona, CA – Fox Theatre
05 San Francisco, CA – The Warfield Theatre
07 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
08 Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
10 Salt Lake City, UT – Murray Theater
11 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
13 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
14 Chicago, IL – Congress Theater
15 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
17 Boston, MA – House Of Blues
18 Montreal, QC – Metropolis
19 Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
22 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
23 Columbus, OH – Rock on the Range Festival*
26 New York, NY – Rumsey Playfield, Central Park
27 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
27 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

*no Circa Survive, Torche

Presale orders for the deluxe edition of Year of the Black Rainbow can be placed beginning this week at http://www.coheedandcambria.com. In addition to the CD and novel, the deluxe edition will include a “Making of” DVD featuring studio and interview footage as well as a Coheed and Cambria “Black Card,” which will allow fans early entrance to shows, discounts on band merchandise and exclusive downloads and offers. Sneak peeks at the new album’s artwork and other exclusive visuals can be seen at http://www.coheedandcambria.com.

Year of the Black Rainbow provides the long awaited prequel to the band’s four previous inter-related concept albums – The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) – which comprise “The Amory Wars,” the conceptual narrative driving the band’s lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. Year Of The Black Rainbow is also likely to be the final installment of the narrative of “The Amory Wars.”

Year of the Black Rainbow is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to the Sanchez, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.” The new record also features the studio debut of Coheed and Cambria drummer Chris Pennie, who has been playing alongside Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Robert Todd since 2007 and was featured on Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition, the CD/DVD box set documentation of the fall/winter 2008 four-night stands during which the band played its catalogue in its entirety, one album per night, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London.

Year Of The Black Rainbow’s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs on the northeastern U.S., four of which are already sold out. Earl Greyhound supports on the dates, which are as follows.

Tue-Mar-23 Rochester, NY Harro East Theatre & Ballroom
Wed-Mar-24 Syracuse, NY The Westcott Theater (SOLD OUT)
Thu-Mar-25 Clifton Park , NY Northern Lights
Fri-Mar-26 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground – Ballroom
Sun-Mar-28 Portland, ME Port City Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
Mon-Mar-29 Hartford, CT Webster Theater
Tue-Mar-30 Scranton, PA Hardware Bar (formerly Tinks) (SOLD OUT)
Wed-Mar-31 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg (SOLD OUT)
Sat-Apr-17 Indio, CA Coachella

The complete track listing for Year of the Black Rainbow is:

One
The Broken
Guns of Summer
Here We Are Juggernaut
Far
The Shattered Symphony
World of Lines
Made Out of Nothing
Pearl of the Stars
In the Flame of Error
When Skeletons Live
The Black Rainbow

“Year of the Black Rainbow” will be made available in a a deluxe package including a 300+ page prose novel of the same name, co-written by Claudio Sanchez and New York Times bestselling author Peter David, which promises to “tell the origins of Coheed and Cambria, and much more.” Presale information on the deluxe edition of “Year of the Black Rainbow” will be announced toward the end of December.

“Year of the Black Rainbow” provides the eagerly awaited prequel to the band’s four previous inter-related concept albums — The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) — which comprise “The Amory Wars,” the conceptual narrative driving the band’s lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez.

Through the group’s career, Coheed and Cambria have created consistently complex and challenging musical soundscapes to frame the psychological and narrative arcs of the band’s futurist mythic visions.

“Year of the Black Rainbow” is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to the Coheed and Cambria, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.”

Songs on “Year of the Black Rainbow” include “Here We Are Juggernaut,” “The Broken,” “Pearl of the Stars” and “Guns of Summer.”

In a post this week on the band’s website (www.coheedandcambria.com), Coheed and Cambria confirmed that “….the new album will be the ‘Origin Story’ or ‘The Prequel,’ and likely the final story of the ongoing concept story of ‘The Amory Wars.’”

There is another reason for Coheed supporting H&H. Black Sabbath (Dio version) was Claudio and Travis’ favorite group growing up, and Claudio’s very first concert – at NY’s Beacon Theater in October of 1992. “The night would prove to be one of the most influential of my life. I got the overwhelming feeling that the whole stage was alive–the lights seemed to be as controlled by the sounds as everyone there, and I would exit the venue that night with a fire lit under me.”

Seventeen years later, the band shares the stage with their mentors.

HEAVEN & HELL TOUR DATES

8/07
Vancouver, BC
Thunderbird Arena

8/10
San Jose, CA
Event Center Arena

8/11
Los Angeles, CA
Greek Theater

8/12
Phoenix, AZ
Dodge Theater

8/14
Albuquerque, NM
Journal Pavilion

8/15
Denver, CO
Red Rocks

8/18
Cincinnati, OH
PNC Pavilion

8/19
Chicago, IL
Charter One Pavilion

8/21
Detroit, MI
Meadow Brook Pavilion

8/22
Cleveland, OH
Nautica Pavilion

8/23
Baltimore, MD
Merriweather Post Pavilion

8/25
New York, NY
WaMu Theater @ MSG

8/27
Wallingford, CT
Chevrolet Theatre

8/28
Boston, MA
Bank of America Pavilion

OTHER COHEED & CAMBRIA TOUR DATES

5/28
Atlantic City, NJ
House of Blues

5/29
Sayreville, NJ
Starland Ballroom

5/30
Hunter, NY
Mountain Jam

6/12
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Coliseo de Puerto Rico

6/14
Manchester, TN
BONNAROO

8/08
Grant Park, IL
LOLLAPALOOZA

10/02
Austin, TX
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS

There are only 15,000 limited box sets available worldwide.

Neverender was originally intended to take place in New York and Los Angeles exclusively. The 15,000 tickets for these shows sold out entirely within an astounding three hours of going on sale. When the band saw how fast all 8 shows sold, they decided to extend the tour to include Chicago and London.

“‘Neverender’ came about because we wanted to celebrate the end of the Coheed and Cambria saga in a special way,” says Coheed frontman Claudio Sanchez. “We wanted to come up with an idea that paid proper respect to this phase of our career, while at the same time gave our fans something truly unique and different. Many of these songs have never been played in front of an audience before so I think we’re going to be freaking out at the same time our fans are. It’s going to be a major challenge. We’re psyched our fans have been so loyal and amazing. We figured they deserved this.”

“Brilliant. Words absolutely fail to describe how epic this thing is. If you don’t have it, get it. It’s worth every penny. They’re so bloody tight, and the musicianship is just astounding! This is an incredible celebration of Coheed and their career so far. The documentary is really cool and enlightening as well. A great package. This is why I love Coheed. They’re truly like no other band out there right now.”

“Wow, just wow, I’m not sure that I can find the words to describe the incredible quality of these DVDs (haven’t gotten to the CDs yet). The editing is beyond brilliant, every shot flows so well with the music. The camera work is phenomenal, scoping individual members at the perfect times, cutting back to the full band, consistently peppered with the very best of the crowd’s intensity.”

Pick up your copy now before it’s too late!