He’s busy fusing hip-hop and heavy metal for the 21st century, but the Oxymorrons drummer loves the sci-fi prog of Coheed And Cambria.
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Inspiring the wider music world…
“I used to take drum lessons at a place called the Long Island Drum Center in Nyack in New York state. I found out that there was a band that was blowing up from around that area and that they [Coheed And Cambria] used to rehearse in Nyack. So I’m like,‘Cool, a local band that’s making waves!’And I’d watch them just getting bigger and bigger. This was around the time of In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 and I was really fascinated by them.
There are so many nuances about that band. First of all, the progression of where they started and what they became and secondly, they were just obviously very album-focused. They have this ongoing sci-fi plot going across their albums that they then turned into a comic book series. Every single one of their albums felt like a piece of a much larger puzzle. It was very cool that they were able to grab singles out of them, but the album is what felt so important because it was part of the larger story.
Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness is where I feel that they took that pivot from a lot of the post-hardco
