Coheed And Cambria Embrace Cannibalism In New Video

Upstate New York rockers Coheed And Cambria are more than half-way through a six-date Canadian tour with Baroness after being part of New Jersey's Bamboozle festival earlier this month.

"The night before was Snoop Dogg, and then Bret Michaels was on the other stage," guitarist Travis Stever says of his Bamboozle experience. "That was kind of interesting, kind of mixing it up.

"It was a great crowd. It was very much like Warped Tour because of the bands that were on it."

Coheed are used to playing in front of diverse crowds. They've travelled with Clutch and were part of last summer's Warped Tour. Although Stever says he enjoyed Warped, a traveling festival may not be something they'll try a second time.

"Traveling on Warped Tour, you know, everybody's trying to top this and that. It's like a summer camp on tour. I could see how a lot of people really love it because they can become the cool kids at summer camp, you know what I mean? For us, we just went out on Warped Tour and we had a good time because we were together playing and we were able to pull it off every day. But as for the summer camp aspect, I was never really into that."

Coheed's latest album, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow, is their most successful yet. It debuted at #6 on the U.S. sales chart and should pick up momentum again via a new video for its second single, "Feathers." The video was shot last month and it's safe to say that the group haven't lost their creative control and definitely haven't sold-out.

"We don't think that the video aspect of the whole thing should be taken so seriously," says Stever. "We have this serious concept to follow as a band, but at the same time that doesn't have to reflect in our videos.

"The band has a great sense of humour and we feel that it should show in our videos. 'Feathers,' with the cannibal family-esque kind of thing going on, was one of [lead singer/guitarist] Claudio [Sanchez]'s ideas. I can't say it was the most well-received video, but none of our videos really have been.

"When it comes down to it, they let us make a video about a mother putting men in a meat grinder and feeding it to her family. They could have said 'no.'"

Coheed And Cambria and Baroness will play Winnipeg's Burton Cummings Theatre on May 27 and Toronto's Sound Academy on May 31.