10 Hard Rock Music Artists Who Released Two Great Albums In 2 Consecutive Years
8. Coheed And Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension & The Afterman: Descension
That was either the greatest segue of all time or one of the worst.
You decide.
Modern champions of prog rock and loves of double-necked guitars Coheed and Cambria have been making excellent (if a little strange) music since their first album came out in 2002.
The music is actually part of a much larger narrative called The Armory Wars, which also contains novels and comic books written by frontman Claudio Sanchez. This makes Coheed and Cambria one of the few bands in the world with required reading.
In 2012, they put out the record The Afterman: Ascension, which is exactly the sort of title you'd expect from this lot. Critics really enjoyed it, with one calling it their "best album to date."
However, they weren't done.
Just four months later in February 2013, the band put out the second part of The Afterman, subtitled Descension.
The sequel was just as popular with both scoring well among critics and climbing to the exact same position in the US rock charts.
Hopefully this means that most people bought and listened to both. Otherwise there will be a lot of confused metalheads out there.