10 Most Creative Rock Bands Of The 2010s
8. Coheed And Cambria
Like The Dear Hunter, New York post-hardcore/progressive rock quartet Coheed and Cambria are best known for their serial narrative: The Amory Wars. Indeed, all of their first four studio sequences (released between 2002 and 2007) act as consecutive installments in their interstellar meta mythology of war, star-crossed romance, science, religion, betrayal, and destiny.
While 2010’s Year of the Black Rainbow served as the initial chapter of that story—so it’s a direct prequel to their debut LP, The Second Stage Turbine Blade—both 2012’s The Afterman: Ascension and 2013’s The Afterman: Descension focused on a new, but tangentially related, hero (Sirius Amory) and a plot. Likewise, 2018’s Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (which will be getting a sequel later this year, with three subsequent sequels planned) centers on more newcomers.
If that weren’t enough, mastermind vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez crafted several graphic novels along the way that expanded upon the lore. Typically, they’ve been included as part of elaborate box sets that also pack other inspired goodies.
Their music videos are a ton of fun, too, be they Here We Are Juggernaut’s city-wide celestial apocalypse, Old Flames’ cyberpunk ballet, or even You’ve Got Spirit, Kid’s homage to '1980s cinematic adolescence.