The Second Stage Turbine Blade

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The Second Stage Turbine Blade
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 5, 2002
RecordedOctober – November 2001
StudioStainglass Studio in Paramus, New Jersey
Genre
Length48:44
Label
Producer
  • Michael Birnbaum
  • Chris Bittner
Coheed and Cambria chronology
Delirium Trigger
(2000)
The Second Stage Turbine Blade
(2002)
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
(2003)
Singles from The Second Stage Turbine Blade
  1. "Devil in Jersey City"
    Released: 2004

The Second Stage Turbine Blade is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. It was originally released on March 5, 2002 through Equal Vision Records. It is their first album and part one of a tetralogy, telling the story of The Amory Wars . It was re-released on September 20, 2005, and included three previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Contents

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Story

The album introduces the husband and wife characters Coheed and Cambria, the characters from whom the band's name originates. [10]

This album is one of five Coheed and Cambria albums (the others being Year of the Black Rainbow , Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures , Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind, and the non-conceptual The Color Before the Sun ) not to have a multi-part suite, as In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 had the "Camper Velourium" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness had the "Willing Well" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow had the "End Complete" series, The Afterman: Ascension and Descension albums had the "Key Entity Extraction" series, and Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe had the "Continuum" series.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Claudio Sanchez; all music is composed by Coheed and Cambria

The Second Stage Turbine Blade
No.TitleLength
1."Second Stage Turbine Blade"0:53
2."Time Consumer"5:50
3."Devil in Jersey City"4:50
4."Everything Evil"5:53
5."Delirium Trigger"4:48
6."Hearshot Kid Disaster"5:44
7."33"3:30
8."Junesong Provision"5:21
9."Neverender"5:23
10."God Send Conspirator"6:36
Total length:48:44
Re-release bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Elf Tower New Mexico"6:07
12."Junesong Provision" (acoustic demo)5:47
13."Everything Evil" (demo)13:37

Note: On the standard ten-track edition, the hidden track "IRO-Bot" is contained in "God Send Conspirator"; however, on the deluxe edition, it is contained in the "Everything Evil" demo.

Personnel

Coheed and Cambria
Additional

Tie-in comics

In the summer of 2004, Evil Ink Comics released a series of ten comic books as a tie-in to the album. Written by Claudio Sanchez and illustrated by Wes Abbot, the comics tell the story of Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon, a married couple who become unwittingly involved in interplanetary intrigue.

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