Watch: COHEED AND CAMBRIA receives key to Nyack, New York
15-04-2025
On Sunday (April 13),internationally renowned rock band COHEED AND CAMBRIA returned to the village of Nyack, New York, the community that nurtured the bandmembers’ talents and gave them their earliest notoriety, to accept the key to the village and celebrate April 13 as the newly declared “Coheed And Cambria Day”. At the SpringFest Street Fair, COHEED AND CAMBRIA performed a short acoustic set to commemorate the event. Nyack’s mayor Joe Rand and Nyack chamber of commerce trustee Tristan Dunnigan gave COHEED AND CAMBRIA the key to the village before the band played for their hometown fans at Hezekiah Easter Veterans Memorial Park.
Fan-filmed video of yesterday’s event can be seen below.
Watch ‘Searching For Tomorrow’ below.
COHEED AND CAMBRIA vocalist and primary songwriter Claudio Sanchez is a Nyack High School alumnus. The band got their start at a weekly youth event sponsored by the Nyack Center called the Backdoor that showcased their talents in front of an audience composed mostly of teenagers from all over the tri-state area.
Claudio has a house in Nyack and his family still resides in Valley Cottage. COHEED AND CAMBRIA lead guitarist Travis Stever is from Rockland County and lives full time in Nyack with his family. His wife serves on the board of the Nyack Park Conservancy. COHEED AND CAMBRIA drummer Josh Eppard is from Kingston, New York and has been with the band since its days at a weekly event at the Nyack Center called the Backdoor, which showcased local acts from across the Lower Hudson Valley. COHEED AND CAMBRIA bassist Zach Cooper is originally from Pine Bush, New York.
COHEED AND CAMBRIA‘s eleventh studio album, “Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe”, was released in March. The official music video for the LP’s lead single, “Someone Who Can”, was filmed in several locations throughout the village, including Olive’s and Nyack High School.
‘The Father of Make Believe’ also included the previously -released single “Blind Side Sonny,” arguably Coheed and
Cambria’s most aggressive track to date that was complemented by a Max Moore-directed video that unveiled a new villain in The Amory Wars realm.
Speaking about “Searching for Tomorrow” and The Father of Make Believe, bandleader, vocalist and lead guitarist Caludio Sanchez shares, “This song is a reminder that always looking for something better in your life robs you of being able to appreciate the good things you already have.
With every album I try to ‘outdo’ the one before, or at least make something that sounds different and evolved in some way. I think that initial struggle added to the feeling of having a kind of musical midlife crisis…this constant internal battle of searching for creative release and growth…the being unsure if it’s the right path. This one took more effort in the beginning, but in the end I think the digging was worth it for the subsequent surge.”
Watch the previously released “Blind Side Sonny” below.
Speaking about the new single, vocalist Claudio Sanchez shares, “‘Blind Side Sonny’ is a song about revenge. What may seem like an innocent choice to someone could be the breeding ground of another’s malicious misunderstanding. Perception can be your worst enemy.”
Additionally, the Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe limited edition box set is available for pre-order today and features a CD and digital download along with various exclusives, including Blind Side Sonny's fully wearable and functional helmet and neuro-dynamic display goggles, Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe hardcover illustrated novella coffee table book, neuro-dynamic display goggles app for display customization, 11.5” x 35” Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe bedroom poster and a signed Death Certificate of Siv Trafinder. Box set is available for pre-order HERE.
Pre-order / save The Father of Make Believe, purchase the box set and check out “Searching for Tomorrow” above, see live details and album details below, and stay tuned for more from Coheed and Cambria coming soon.
Track list:
1. Yesterday Lost
2. Goodbye, Sunshine
3. Searching For Tomorrow
4. The Father of Make Believe
5. Meri of Mercy
6. Blind Side Sonny
7. Play The Poet
8. One Last Miracle
9. Corner My Confidence
10. Someone Who Can
11. The Continuum I: Welcome to Forever, Mr. Nobody
12. The Continuum II: The Flood
13. The Continuum III: Tethered Together
14. The Continuum IV: So It Goes
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