Good Apollo Graphic Novel

[Garett Press]

You can now order the graphic novel that will accompany Coheed and Cambria (http://www.coheedandcambria.com)'s thrilling new album. It is available in their online store (http://merchnow.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=CC). If you have been following the short film advertisements then you know that Christopher Shy (http://www.studioronin.com)'s artwork is marvelous and will truly bring new light, or should I say darkness, to this elaborate and ravishing story.

-Click read more for a short summary of the story.


*****WARNING: SPOILER ALERT*****

The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Man and wife Coheed and Cambria are used as the centerpiece to enable Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhelm Ryan's attempt at destroying his archrival Mage, Mariah Antillarea.
Due to a memory swiping years ago, the couple are lead to believe that their former lives have now come back to haunt them. They're told by General Mayo Deftinwolf (Ryan's Right hand) that they were long ago implanted with a great threat to Heaven's Fence , The Monstar Virus. A virus with the ability to turn its host (Coheed) into a being powerful enough to drain the Keywork's energy sources to spark Armageddon, while their dear old counterpart, Inferno was given the only means to unlock it.
Through more lies, they are led to believe their children have genetically acquired a mutated form of the virus, the Sinstar. This new strain only requires its host to mature to a certain age, and has no antidote unlike the Monstar. Their children cannot be saved and time will not side with them. Coheed and Cambria are faced with an unimaginable dilemma: to murder their own children or face Armageddon.

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Ten years after the "Turbine Blade", son Claudio emerges from the depths of Shylos Ten, the Fence's "quiet" planet where the Red Army performs its brutal interrogations & imprisonments. Finding out that his entire family has been murdered, he seeks vengeance. His foes, STM Wilhelm Ryan and General Mayo Detinwolf sense that he is still alive and holds special powers. They know they must stop him before he defeats them. Meanwhile, Inferno takes up arms against the Red Army ("Man your Battlestations") and Ryan's men in an effort to seek the same kind of vengeance. In Claudio's re-emergence he teams up with Ambellina, the Prise who is cast out by her peers and forced to be his guide. The pair seeks out Inferno to find answers as to why his family were killed and join together to destroy Ryan, the Keywork and all of Heaven's Fence.

The third piece is split into two volumes:

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Picks up right where IKSSE3 leaves off, only this time we step outside of the story to see how adverse happenings in the writers life affects the story. The writer battles with himself to destroy certain characters and the two worlds collide. The death of Inferno and Ambellina are story highlights.

Vol 2 (Title tba)

Back deep into the story where Claudio comes to grips with the fact that he is "The Crowing" and sets out for the ultimate battle with Ryan and Detinwolf, and we reach the end of the Story.

And The Prequel

The Bag.On.Line Adventures

We go back to how it all began, explain the exact origins of the KBI, Heavens Fence. Coheed and Cambria and the Monstar Virus.

[Ruggiero2oo8]

Oh Man.
Coheed And Cambria is AMAZING! :wow:

[ACA]

I bought the first comic book at Warped a few years ago... I didn't get into it. Maybe I just don't like comics.

In any case.. their music owns, and that is what matters.

-ACA

[broknxparachute]

awesome.

[FrancesdaMute]

i heard the album from some girl over the weekend....and i have no idea how this could disappoint anyone. i cannot wait for the 20th

[Katie Schmitz]

damn, i don't know if i want to spend $20 though..... :huh:

[Plaidical]

I bought the first comic book at Warped a few years ago... I didn't get into it. Maybe I just don't like comics.

In any case.. their music owns, and that is what matters.

-ACA

yaaa... Im so confused reading that first post. just let me enjoy the music

[UncleRico]

damn, i don't know if i want to spend $20 though..... :huh:
I know, that is a little steep. $25 with the CD is better, though.

This guy's artwork looks like the dude that did illustrations for Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Same guy?

[Greg Dona]

which parts does the graphic novel cover. and is claudio a good enough writer to pull off a captivating piece. will it be literary genius or pop-culture entertainment that is literary garbage (nothing against the garbage; i love it... i just wanna know what type of book it is).

[GlassyLight]

GODDAMMIT

PUT A FUCKING SPOILER TAG ON THAT SHIT! I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW WHO DIES THERE!


augh.

[GoTHErelentless]

I'll buy this.

[Garett Press]

which parts does the graphic novel cover. and is claudio a good enough writer to pull off a captivating piece. will it be literary genius or pop-culture entertainment that is literary garbage (nothing against the garbage; i love it... i just wanna know what type of book it is).
The graphic novel covers what is contained on the new album and only that. Which is the struggle and interaction between writer and story, and also the beginning of the conclusion which will come in Volume II. The story is not literary genius... no. Think along the lines of Star Wars or something. Entertainment and action with some depth, but not profound.

[a hybrid]

for people confused this will be over 100 pages so its not just a flimsy comic book hence the price tag.

[pinkerton]

thank you for the spoilers. now i don't have to spend 20 dollars on some stupid comic i don't really care about.

although i will buy the cd on my birthday.

which is september 20th.

I LOVE COHEED!!!!

[a hybrid]

the synopsis hardly fleashes out the entire story. nor is it known if its even completely factual.

[sean omerta]

Christopher Shy > Wes Abbot.

[JHallow]

Does that mean Christopher Shy will be doing all the comics now or is this just a one off?

[s.deel.besonym]

I don't care that much but that was pretty fucking lame to not use A: the spoiler tag or B: say there were spoilers. Nice.

[Katie Schmitz]

:mpiss:

[I.O]

I love this album

[pinkerton]

why when i type in caps lock does it come up as just the first letter capitalized?

[dancezachdance]

Does anyone know the release dates for R Kelly Trapped In The Closet Chapters 6-10??

[a hybrid]

abbot is finishing the sstb comics and shy i believe will also be doing volume 2's graphic novel. who knows who will do inky.

[weworemasks]

Christopher Shy > Wes Abbot.

by a long shot. i think ill skim through the book before i buy it, cause the comics were...stupid in my opinion. i enjoyed the story aspect, but i could have gotten it from message boards and shit. the drawings were just meh cause it didnt fit the characters to me.

[sean omerta]

GODDAMMIT

PUT A FUCKING SPOILER TAG ON THAT SHIT! I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW WHO DIES THERE!


augh.
...

seriously, who did you not know died?

[minusthejosh]

man i can't wait for this, even though i'm completely lost on the story part. i'm predicting that this album will be amazing and destroy almost any other releases this year.

[FinchFan11]

i am not big into comics, but i skimmed through the website and every artist showed on the site is really good. from the sculptures to prints..its nice work..

[xearlynovemberx]

i love this album

[shetpisfock]

I guess i'm the only one that doesn't like this gimmick. thats ok.

[dancezachdance]

R Kelly?

not kidding..

[shetpisfock]

Exactly, I was completely down with the pissing on 18 year old girls faces concept, but the closet thing? Not feelin it.

[XmorganX88]

Second Stage Turbine Blade > IKSOSE3 > IV although IV= Album of the year.

Coheed own so hard. I've been getting into the story so much lately just trying to put pieces together.

20th of September will own my soul.

[mlautz]

He has refuted his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. --And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

--John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

[jfb392]

How the fuck are those "spoilers"?
The story has happened, you can visit a fansite and see the story..

[p, FRY]

pre-ordered this a couple of days ago. cannot wait to sit down and look at all this beautiful work.

[sean omerta]

by a long shot. i think ill skim through the book before i buy it, cause the comics were...stupid in my opinion. i enjoyed the story aspect, but i could have gotten it from message boards and shit. the drawings were just meh cause it didnt fit the characters to me.
felt mostly the same way.

I really would have actually preferred just text.

[slickwataris]

why when i type in caps lock does it come up as just the first letter capitalized?
I've been wondering that too.

[DroppedUrPocket]

You didn't use the spoiler tags! It was the perfect opportunity!

[s.deel.besonym]

I guess i'm the only one that doesn't like this gimmick. thats ok.
You're cute. In that really UGLY little kid cute kind of way. Shut up, k? THX!

[lackofcolour 13]

dude. super sweet.

[Katie Schmitz]

You're cute. In that really UGLY little kid cute kind of way. Shut up, k? THX!

haha, awesome

[shetpisfock]

wait, I say I don't like a band, then I get called ugly and I'm told to shut up. I can't believe this is on ap.net! ;)

[VGB]

yeah I already preordered the album, I ended up hearing it early anyways casue I couldn't help myself, nevertheless I liked it so much I might just preorder a second copy along with the comic book. Thats how much I liked it.

[StrikeAnywhere9]

God damn it. lets get some news up here, so i can stop being bored between classes. oh yea and co ca suck pretty bad.

[tbag311]

Can't wait....got them both on preorder!

Anyways, I think i've listened to the willing well songs long enough to get some predictions.

(to keep in spirit) spoiler alert!

1) I think claudio (the character) becomes aware that the writer can kill him at any moment, but claudio also knows that if the writer kills claudio, he destroys the story. So claudio knowing this and the actions he takes can be described as 'fear through the eyes of madness'

2) I think it's claudio who kills the inferno. I think this is in the willing well II, because in the willing well III on the blood red summer/everything evil/ i,robot part it's claudio remembering the inferno (aka jesse) and regretting what he did.

3) my guess is that in the willing well IV:final cut, Claudio (or the crowing) is being killed. The blade comes down near the end of the solo (like 5 something in the song...you can hear it) and the i think the crazy hick music in the end is claudio in heaven


this is all my guess....and chances are it's completely wrong

[GoTHErelentless]

God damn it. lets get some news up here, so i can stop being bored between classes. oh yea and co ca suck pretty bad.

flame-bait much? :tool:

by the way, the Willing Well, all four parts, are amazing. Anyone heard the secret song on the CD yet?

[BurningStar]

Yeah, so i have been paying alot of attention to coheed, and i was very dissapointed to hear that there are only gonna be like 2 or 3 more albums in the story. I could be wrong, but i hope i am. I think that the music alone is amazing, but the fact that all the songs, follow a story, and the story is depicted in comic books. Caludio and the rest of the gang are geniuses, absolutely genius. I still have yet to go and get the god damn books, i dont have a credit card so its hard to buy them online, but i vow to do it by the time the new album drops.



P.S. everyone check out josh's project weerd science, its pretty amazing shit, and he is a pretty awsome guy.

[Garett Press]

I don't care that much but that was pretty fucking lame to not use A: the spoiler tag or B: say there were spoilers. Nice.
Dude those aren't really spoilers, that isn't unreleased information that I dug up. It is openly available and straight from the mouth of Claudio, thus not meant to be hidden or secret. So chill out, I put up a spoiler warning for those who really consider it so, but technically this is not the case.

[ForeverInADay]

man i can't wait for this, even though i'm completely lost on the story part. i'm predicting that this album will be amazing and destroy almost any other releases this year.
same goes for me

I'm not one for reading books either..but I think I'd read/buy this.

You're cute. In that really UGLY little kid cute kind of way. Shut up, k? THX!
HAHAHAHAHA nice.

[A picasso blue]

flame-bait much? :tool:

by the way, the Willing Well, all four parts, are amazing. Anyone heard the secret song on the CD yet?why would you listen to em? I 've managed to avoid listening to any song except "Welcome Home" because I want all the goodness of this CD to be a surprise.



and by the way, this guy's artwork looks amazing. really dark and almost nightmarish:


http://www.studioronin.com/books/except02.jpg (http://www.ccnow.com/cgi-local/cart.cgi?roninprints_EXCEPTBOOK02_h ttp://www.studioronin.com/home.php?menu=artbooks.php)

[GoTHErelentless]

I listened to them because I'm selfish and wanted to hear the gravy that is Good Apollo.

I was not disappointed, and my copy (along with novel) shall be in the mail on the 20th.

As for more albums in the concept, Claudio has often talked of creating albums/music from other characters' perspectives in the story; perhaps more obscure characters. Instead of chronicling the events of Claudio, which is what the latest two albums are, he'd revisit certain concepts he'd touched on but didn't have the chance to flesh out.

He created an entire universe, there isn't much that these guys can't do in terms of limiting their creativity.

By the way, Wes Abbot should be drawing a manga, not this.

[giantasinrobot]

I listened to them because I'm selfish and wanted to hear the gravy that is Good Apollo.

I was not disappointed, and my copy (along with novel) shall be in the mail on the 20th.

As for more albums in the concept, Claudio has often talked of creating albums/music from other characters' perspectives in the story; perhaps more obscure characters. Instead of chronicling the events of Claudio, which is what the latest two albums are, he'd revisit certain concepts he'd touched on but didn't have the chance to flesh out.

He created an entire universe, there isn't much that these guys can't do in terms of limiting their creativity.

By the way, Wes Abbot should be drawing a manga, not this.
anyone else preorder the album back when they had the dvd/cd offer?

[DroppedUrPocket]

giantasinmywang

[GlassyLight]

...

seriously, who did you not know died?


Uhh, Jesse, the Inferno? He is a major character, you know.

And for the record, the reason why I was pissed is because I must be one of about ten people on this board who didn't get a pirated/review copy of the album. I want to form my own theories on what the music is trying to convey before knowing what happened. That is in fact my favorite part of this band.

That said, I did not go out looking for interviews about the album yet. I have not looked up anything on what the new album is to hold, story wise. The only thing I know about the album is what Welcome Home says and, now, regretfully, who dies. It's almost certainly a major plot point when a major character dies (see the whole Harry Potter/Spoiler debacle of a few months ago), and I merely found it in poor form when an unreleased piece of work is partially ruined before we law-abiding types get a chance to see what happens. It's like someone telling you the Gunslinger's ultimate fate in Dark Tower before the 7th book had come out. Not cool.

[DroppedUrPocket]

Uhh, Jesse, the Inferno? He is a major character, you know.

And for the record, the reason why I was pissed is because I must be one of about ten people on this board who didn't get a pirated/review copy of the album. I want to form my own theories on what the music is trying to convey before knowing what happened. That is in fact my favorite part of this band.

That said, I did not go out looking for interviews about the album yet. I have not looked up anything on what the new album is to hold, story wise. The only thing I know about the album is what Welcome Home says and, now, regretfully, who dies. It's almost certainly a major plot point when a major character dies (see the whole Harry Potter/Spoiler debacle of a few months ago), and I merely found it in poor form when an unreleased piece of work is partially ruined before we law-abiding types get a chance to see what happens. It's like someone telling you the Gunslinger's ultimate fate in Dark Tower before the 7th book had come out. Not cool.

Way to spoil shit for everyone. Penisface.

[A picasso blue]

You can now order the graphic novel that will accompany Coheed and Cambria (http://www.coheedandcambria.com)'s thrilling new album. It is available in their online store (http://merchnow.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=CC). If you have been following the short film advertisements then you know that Christopher Shy (http://www.studioronin.com)'s artwork is marvelous and will truly bring new light, or should I say darkness, to this elaborate and ravishing story.

-Click read more for a short summary of the story.


*****WARNING: SPOILER ALERT*****

The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Man and wife Coheed and Cambria are used as the centerpiece to enable Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhelm Ryan's attempt at destroying his archrival Mage, Mariah Antillarea.
Due to a memory swiping years ago, the couple are lead to believe that their former lives have now come back to haunt them. They're told by General Mayo Deftinwolf (Ryan's Right hand) that they were long ago implanted with a great threat to Heaven's Fence , The Monstar Virus. A virus with the ability to turn its host (Coheed) into a being powerful enough to drain the Keywork's energy sources to spark Armageddon, while their dear old counterpart, Inferno was given the only means to unlock it.
Through more lies, they are led to believe their children have genetically acquired a mutated form of the virus, the Sinstar. This new strain only requires its host to mature to a certain age, and has no antidote unlike the Monstar. Their children cannot be saved and time will not side with them. Coheed and Cambria are faced with an unimaginable dilemma: to murder their own children or face Armageddon.

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Ten years after the "Turbine Blade", son Claudio emerges from the depths of Shylos Ten, the Fence's "quiet" planet where the Red Army performs its brutal interrogations & imprisonments. Finding out that his entire family has been murdered, he seeks vengeance. His foes, STM Wilhelm Ryan and General Mayo Detinwolf sense that he is still alive and holds special powers. They know they must stop him before he defeats them. Meanwhile, Inferno takes up arms against the Red Army ("Man your Battlestations") and Ryan's men in an effort to seek the same kind of vengeance. In Claudio's re-emergence he teams up with Ambellina, the Prise who is cast out by her peers and forced to be his guide. The pair seeks out Inferno to find answers as to why his family were killed and join together to destroy Ryan, the Keywork and all of Heaven's Fence.

The third piece is split into two volumes:

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Picks up right where IKSSE3 leaves off, only this time we step outside of the story to see how adverse happenings in the writers life affects the story. The writer battles with himself to destroy certain characters and the two worlds collide. The death of Inferno and Ambellina are story highlights.

Vol 2 (Title tba)

Back deep into the story where Claudio comes to grips with the fact that he is "The Crowing" and sets out for the ultimate battle with Ryan and Detinwolf, and we reach the end of the Story.

And The Prequel

The Bag.On.Line Adventures

We go back to how it all began, explain the exact origins of the KBI, Heavens Fence. Coheed and Cambria and the Monstar Virus.
i don't mean to be an ass, but in the Second Stage Turbine Blade Cambria and and coheed really do have superpowers. it's not a lie. the only thing they're lied to about is how well they'll be treated

Can't wait....got them both on preorder!

Anyways, I think i've listened to the willing well songs long enough to get some predictions.

(to keep in spirit) spoiler alert!

1) I think claudio (the character) becomes aware that the writer can kill him at any moment, but claudio also knows that if the writer kills claudio, he destroys the story. So claudio knowing this and the actions he takes can be described as 'fear through the eyes of madness'

2) I think it's claudio who kills the inferno. I think this is in the willing well II, because in the willing well III on the blood red summer/everything evil/ i,robot part it's claudio remembering the inferno (aka jesse) and regretting what he did.

3) my guess is that in the willing well IV:final cut, Claudio (or the crowing) is being killed. The blade comes down near the end of the solo (like 5 something in the song...you can hear it) and the i think the crazy hick music in the end is claudio in heaven


this is all my guess....and chances are it's completely wrong
he can't die because there's another album to go

Uhh, Jesse, the Inferno? He is a major character, you know.

And for the record, the reason why I was pissed is because I must be one of about ten people on this board who didn't get a pirated/review copy of the album. I want to form my own theories on what the music is trying to convey before knowing what happened. That is in fact my favorite part of this band.

That said, I did not go out looking for interviews about the album yet. I have not looked up anything on what the new album is to hold, story wise. The only thing I know about the album is what Welcome Home says and, now, regretfully, who dies. It's almost certainly a major plot point when a major character dies (see the whole Harry Potter/Spoiler debacle of a few months ago), and I merely found it in poor form when an unreleased piece of work is partially ruined before we law-abiding types get a chance to see what happens. It's like someone telling you the Gunslinger's ultimate fate in Dark Tower before the 7th book had come out. Not cool.
did you read that? the dark tower series? i hated the ending so much

[blahme]

mmmm..i got their comics (the first two) signed at comicon.

[UncleRico]

did you read that? the dark tower series? i hated the ending so much

No kidding. I loved the series so much and it started going downhill with #5. And that ending was BULLSHIT. I felt so ripped off afterwards...