Equal Vision Records
2006
My Brother's Blood Machine
About This Album
If Claudio Sanchez's voice wasn't so damned distinctive, there'd be just about nothing tying his solo project the Prize Fighter Inferno to his primary progressive emo-rock band Coheed & Cambria. OK, sure, there's the story line that connects the two groups together, but if you can clearly decipher what's going on throughout My Brother's Blood Machine, props to you. According to Sanchez, this album is told from the point of view of Inferno, aka Coheed's brother Jesse, who died in Coheed & Cambria's 2005 album. The plot line of his story predates the whole saga that dominates C & C's albums, setting up the three-family feud known as the Amory Wars. The Blood Machine is basically some kind of contraption built by two brothers of the Bleam family -- whose mother tells them that they are the new "dealers of death" appointed by God -- used for catching souls once they leave the bodies of the dead. A young girl named Cecillia McCloud runs into the brothers in the woods while fleeing her abusive father and that's where the Prize Fighter album begins. Or at least something like that. Confused yet? Thankfully, the music of Sanchez's side project (one which he worked on intermittently for about seven years) is a million times more straightforward than the concept driving it.
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