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Issue date: 4/14/05 Section: Spectrum

Coheed & Cambria have been all over the TV the past year. Going from a small following on an underground label (Equal Vision) to playing the Warped Tour and selling out the Roseland Ballroom as well as several other dates on their first headlining tour. Not to mention the video for their song "A Favor House Atlantic" played on MTV while their second record went gold. They've also been featured in magazines like Rolling Stone, Spin and Revolver.

Coheed & Cambria are at work on their third album, which will hopefully bring back some old fans and gain some new ones. Josh Eppard, drummer of New Jersey's own prog/emo/punk/hard rock band took some time out of his busy schedule to talk with The Commonwealth Times about Rush and MTV.

CT: I just wanted to tell you I am a humongous fan of your band. You guys are incredible and I've been following you since the Second Stage Turbine Blade.

JE: That means a lot. We get a lot of flack for it nowadays it seems like a lot of the kids liked the first record or even a lot of the ones who liked the second record "In Keeping..." when it came out now hate it. I don't know why. We went against the grain from the get go anyway, man. We were getting courted by major labels for a year and a half and we went with the one that felt like they believed in the record and I'm really glad we signed with Columbia. And who'd ever thought that the "Favor House" video we made would get on MTV.

CT: Oh, right.

JE: We got drunk at a bar and made a stupid video. Who'd ever thought MTV would have picked it up? It just happened, and when it did we were excited and weirded out, cause I think it's kinda weird they picked that video up.

CT: What do you think of people comparing you to Rush?

JE: I think it's kinda funny, cause, I see why. Obviously, we're a progressive band and Claudio has super high vocals. But it was weird at first because none of us were really big Rush fans so I know that we never strictly went and ripped Rush off except on "In Keeping..." There's that 2113 song which is kind of a joke (laughing). We just made it obviously so proggy and we had a good time doin' it. You know, we like to play those kind of songs, obviously, and we thought it was weird so we went and listened to Rush after that.

CT: Well, my favorite song on the album is "The Crowing." How the breakdown happen? Was that completely spontaneous in the studio or did you write that? Your drumming is incendiary that song, it's incredible.

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Issue date: 4/14/05 Section: Spectrum

Coheed & Cambria have been all over the TV the past year. Going from a small following on an underground label (Equal Vision) to playing the Warped Tour and selling out the Roseland Ballroom as well as several other dates on their first headlining tour. Not to mention the video for their song "A Favor House Atlantic" played on MTV while their second record went gold. They've also been featured in magazines like Rolling Stone, Spin and Revolver.

Coheed & Cambria are at work on their third album, which will hopefully bring back some old fans and gain some new ones. Josh Eppard, drummer of New Jersey's own prog/emo/punk/hard rock band took some time out of his busy schedule to talk with The Commonwealth Times about Rush and MTV.

CT: I just wanted to tell you I am a humongous fan of your band. You guys are incredible and I've been following you since the Second Stage Turbine Blade.

JE: That means a lot. We get a lot of flack for it nowadays it seems like a lot of the kids liked the first record or even a lot of the ones who liked the second record "In Keeping..." when it came out now hate it. I don't know why. We went against the grain from the get go anyway, man. We were getting courted by major labels for a year and a half and we went with the one that felt like they believed in the record and I'm really glad we signed with Columbia. And who'd ever thought that the "Favor House" video we made would get on MTV.

CT: Oh, right.

JE: We got drunk at a bar and made a stupid video. Who'd ever thought MTV would have picked it up? It just happened, and when it did we were excited and weirded out, cause I think it's kinda weird they picked that video up.

CT: What do you think of people comparing you to Rush?

JE: I think it's kinda funny, cause, I see why. Obviously, we're a progressive band and Claudio has super high vocals. But it was weird at first because none of us were really big Rush fans so I know that we never strictly went and ripped Rush off except on "In Keeping..." There's that 2113 song which is kind of a joke (laughing). We just made it obviously so proggy and we had a good time doin' it. You know, we like to play those kind of songs, obviously, and we thought it was weird so we went and listened to Rush after that.

CT: Well, my favorite song on the album is "The Crowing." How the breakdown happen? Was that completely spontaneous in the studio or did you write that? Your drumming is incendiary that song, it's incredible.

Continued...

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