In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3

It's fine, but too long. Also the song names were way more interesting than what the songs ended up being. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

An all timer, 10/10, from my favourite all time band!

Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine

The whole package here (an artistic universe w that sounds like wizard-battle fantasy dressed up in a sci-fi costume, complete with comic book and ancillary products) is pretty wild. I'm actually pretty envious, its an artistic legacy to aspire to. Musically its pretty conventional prog metal and honestly a lot of what is basically 90s hair metal. The sci-fi narrative was not really getting through to me. Point docked because the cover art is unforgivably dull give this thing is adjacent to a spaceship and sorcery comic book. Look to Hall of the Mountain King and repent!

In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 is a progressive rock album by Coheed and Cambria. As pretentious the title sounds the overall lyrics are indeed. The problem is that the song titles sound more interesting than the lyrics and music they over. Also the production of the instruments (especially the guitars) sounds flat. I guess due to too much compression. Also the guitar sound in almost all tracks is exactly the same (pedals and other guitar effects). This makes it a mediocre experience that mentally moves to the background. Only tracks that offer some alternative to one big sound that goes on forever are "Blood Red Summer" (variating in drum and feeling), "The Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer" (finally guitars sounding different) and the outro of "The Light & the Glass". It is just too boring and almost 70 minutes long.

With song titles and an aesthetic like that, I really didn't expect this to sound like woah-oh-oh Disney Channel pop punk. Kinda whatever. The concept seems cool, but it's just not very musically interesting. Surely there's a genre that would be more fitting for your tetralogy of sci-fi novels centered around an intergalactic war than the Phineas and Ferb theme song.

May 2, 2026 is there any emo punk missing from this list at this point? I guess someone could add Billy Talent Turns out the genre doesn't get less annoying to me when you stretch it out over 10-minute suites and 70 minute albums. To be fair, I thought The Black Parade was a bit annoying, so it's not Coheed and Cambria's fault that I can't immerse myself in this era of rock music. Lest we forget those prog elements-- I was intrigued at the promise of a sci-fi saga called The Amory Wars. But when the music sounds like this I could not give a fuck about the story. One of the characters likes to kill women, I picked up that much. His name is Al the Killer Good Charlotte makes a Rush album

I've dabbled in some Cohered and Cambria before and liked some of it but I really enjoyed listening to this full album. What can I say I'm a sucker for some progressive rock.

The creativity and technical skill on display are a perfect marriage of talent. This has always ruled.

Post-hardcore, pop-punk, experimental rock, emo, progressive rock, rock opera. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Three evils, The crowing

Camp but still fun

One of those albums I liked when I was 14, but doesn’t really land with me now. But still think we could make room for it on the list.

Tveksamt till en början men plattan växte. Det blir en stark trea.

Something about the vocals bothered me. Can't exactly pinpoint what it is. The music was fine

Pop metal. 3/5

I like em, so sue me.

Sure sounds like Coheed and Cambria

Love the band, but this is not the most interesting album 2

Not for me

There were some OK songs on this album but on the whole there was nothing special enough to make it stand out for me.

This rambles an awful lot. It's an album that has ambition, as well as staying power. Unfortunately I wasn't around for the full journey. It was all very competent and technically strong. It was just far too heavy for me. Bailed after track 3.

Way too much for one LP, especially for how homogeneous the tracks sound against one another. The lyricism tends toward slightly goofy, and while there was some interesting guitar here and there, it wasn’t nearly enough to justify a 70-minute runtime. This album would have benefited greatly from some editorializing, cutting all the unnecessary tracks and perhaps honing the vocals a bit.

I like classic progressive rock, e.g. Yes, ELP, Procol Harum, etc. but I just can’t get into this. 2 stars.

Lasted about 2 songs in. Overblown emo rock.

It's well produced, sung and played but it doesn't offer anything new. Seriously guys there a so so many bands that have been before and done all this.

As a sci-fI fan, maybe I could enjoy reading *The Amory Wars*, the comic book saga Coheed and Cambria mastermind Claudio Sanchez wrote to flesh out his episodic prog-metal emo-pop / post-hardcore opera, declined album after album in the last twenty years or so. Unless you interpret all this the other way around and consider the band's work as an audio illustration for this endless list of "graphic novels"... I admittedly haven't read the latter, so what is about to follow should probably be taken with a huge grain of salt. But checking out their main plot, and browsing through their pages online, it looks like there's not much reflective distance in the piling up of clichés oozing from the project (a chosen one figure who is also an anti-hero of sorts tries to avenge the death of his parents battling a Thanos-like villain, basically put). Besides, the way Claudio seems to sublimate personal concerns in such a transparent manner in the pages I have seen have triggered a smirk from me: the main character of *The Amory Wars* is named after the author's first name (eyeroll 1), said character is designed and drawn to look like him in some sort of muscular superhero version of his own appearance (eyeroll 2), and "Coheed" and "Cambria" are actually the names of the main character's deceased parents, which Sanchez modeled after his own (don't worry, Claudio's IRL old folks are still alive -- which where I'm tempted to say 'eyeroll 3')... Honestly, it's hard not to immediately file the whole thing under the tag "immature art", and this even if I haven't read the thing. Creative writing very often draws from autobiographical elements, sure, but all this seems to go a step further and border on self-indulgent narcissism, right? Fittingly, that probable lack of distance and reflexive restraint in those comics is also felt throughout Coheed and Cambria's music itself: a) Said music seriously needs some self-editing, whether for individual tracks or for the whole LP. "But that sort of length goes with that prog metal turf," I already hear some of you protest. Maybe. Yet I'm not so sure the actual prog elements found in this record can justify said length this time around. More on that later... b) Sanchez's overwhelming vocal presence in *In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3* ends up becoming exhausting, and maybe the album's length is not solely responsible here... c) The hair metal elements (guitar pyrotechnics / harmonics, some of the vocal hooks and choruses...) are a little ridiculous, especially this side of the year 2000. d) The pop elements showcasing so many tired chord progressions and somewhat grating or lazy vocal lines feel like an overdose of cheese as well. Check out Coheed and Cambria's latest output by the way, where those pop impulses have fully taken over the whole band artistry. Simply horrible. Yet as prevalent those impulses are now, one could already sense Coheed and Cambria going this way from the time of *In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3*. You just needed to listen to some key details in it. In between the two musical extremities described in c) and d), you do have more intricate / interesting flourishes supporting prog rock / post hardcore moments going from merely competent to very decent, I guess... But taken as whole, those elements feel like an "economy" version of the far more insane / impressive / groundbreaking music The Mars Volta could pull off around the same time period, to take an example of a contemporary act operating in that particular subgenre. So shrugs here anyway, for the most part. Finally, the very flat production values of *In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3* -- elements already underlined in a few reviews out there -- are also emphasizing that "economy" tag I've just mentioned. Can't directly blame Sanchez for the sonic shortcomings -- budgeting all those projects using different mediums must be a logistical and financial nightmare, of course! Claudio has multiple talents, as a musician, as a performer, and as a writer, I'm not going to take that away from him, and more power to him for finding so many outlets for self-expression, while making a living out of them. Maybe there could have been ways to focus more cohesively on *one* of those skills, but who am I to judge what makes a man tick? All that being said, and to return to the subject of the album's production, I do agree with some of the reviewers in this section that the guitar compression and lack of dynamics also prevented me to find *In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3* somewhat listenable in the long run. Hiring cheap producers often logically yield cheap results. To be clear, I don't hate Coheed and Cambria, I'm glad one user attracted my attention to their multifaceted artistry, and more power to the band's fans as well while I'm at it. Yet I really do subjectively believe including this record in a finite list of 1001 essential albums is one of the biggest stretches I have witnessed on this generator. And my final grading will take this into account for sure. 1/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (4/5 for the musicianship and production values + 2/5 for the artistry) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 102 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 113 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 239 (including this one) ---- Hey Émile, j'ai répondu sous Demon Days ET ta sélection pour la users list ! 🙂