Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York, formed in 1995. It consists of Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever, Josh Eppard, and Zach Cooper.
The group's music incorporates aspects of progressive rock, pop, heavy metal, and post-hardcore.
members: Claudio Sanchez
formed in: New York
labels: Columbia Records, Equal Vision Records, 300 Entertainment
genres: progressive rock, alternative rock, progressive metal
influenced by: Dream Theater, Black Sabbath, Jane's Addiction, Pink Floyd, At the Drive-In, Don Caballero, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin
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In March 1995, after the split of Claudio Sanchez and Travis Stever's band called Toxic Parents, they formed a band with Nate Kelley called Beautiful Loser. The band featured Stever on vocals and guitar, Sanchez on guitar, Kelley on drums and Jon Carleo on bass. The group was short lived, breaking up by June 1995 after an argument over gas money. Stever left the band, and the resulting trio was named Shabütie, a word taken from African tribe chants that means "naked prey" in the film The Naked Prey.
The band's style is described as progressive rock by Equal Vision, Spin, and AllMusic. Songs such as "Blood Red Summer" and "Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)" have been noted in many reviews of the band also to contain several elements of pop, as exemplified by one review by Sputnikmusic which says "Coheed and Cambria manage to bring new life to a dying genre, and mix up the standard pop-punk scheme with creative and original riffs." The band has also been described as alternative rock, new prog, progressive metal, emo, post-hardcore, and alternative metal.