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| The Amory Wars | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Evil Ink Comics |
| Format | (Vol. 1) 10 Issues (Vol. 2) 12 Issues (Vol. 3) 10 Issues |
| No. of issues | 32 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert |
| Artist(s) | Rags Morales |
| Colorist(s) | Emilio Lopez |
| Editor(s) | Blaze James |
The Amory Wars is an ongoing series of science fiction comic books and novels created by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert, published by Evil Ink Comics. The name also refers to the fictional conflict at the center of the story, which is told across the published works and is also the primary focus of most of the band's music.
Each of Coheed and Cambria's studio albums (with the exception of 2015's The Color Before the Sun)[1] tells a chapter in the saga originally narrated by Sanchez's lyrics. The band also makes use of recurring melodies, self-referencing musical and lyrical cues in certain songs that reference key moments in The Amory Wars mythology. Some individual songs on these albums (e.g., "The Crowing", "Everything Evil", "Three Evils") use a particular song structure named by Brad Osborn as the "terminally climactic form"[2] in order to depict a particularly violent action from the story.
The mythos is not wholly comprehensible through the music and lyrics alone. Sanchez created The Amory Wars comics and novels to better depict the story's events and characters.
- ^ Reed, Ryan (July 8, 2015). "Coheed and Cambria Pause Sci-Fi Concept for Personal New Album". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
- ^ Osborn, Brad (2013). ""Subverting the Verse/Chorus Paradigm: Terminally Climactic Forms in Recent Rock Music"". Music Theory Spectrum. 35 (1): 37. doi:10.1525/mts.2013.35.1.23. hdl:1808/19147.