Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow by Coheed and Cambria

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow, mercifully shortened to No World for Tomorrow on the shelves, came out on Columbia on October 23, 2007. It's Coheed and Cambria's fourth album and a direct sequel to Volume One, carrying Claudio Sanchez's sprawling sci-fi saga The Amory Wars into its fourth chapter. The full title hides in the lyric booklet and on the rim of the vinyl's fourth side, but Sanchez insists that's the real name.

With Josh Eppard gone, Taylor Hawkins played drums on what would be his only Coheed record, and Nick Raskulinecz produced. The result is the band at their most muscular: Sanchez's high, keening voice over riffs that swing between prog-metal heft and arena-sized hooks, with Travis Stever's guitar and Michael Todd's bass pushing hard. "The Running Free" is the punchiest thing here, a fist-pumper built for the pit, and the album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200.

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