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Coheed and Cambria, from left: guitarist Travis Stever, drummer Josh Eppard, guitarist and singer Claudio Sanchez, and bassist Zach Cooper.

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From fantasy to reality, guitarist and singer Claudio Sanchez charts a new course on The Father of Make Believe, the newest part of the concept rockers’ Vaxis series.

When it came time to record Coheed and Cambria’s latest release, Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe, guitarist and singer Claudio Sanchez first sat down and listened to their last album, Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind, and realized he wanted to recapture some of that winning formula. “Even though Windowwas a Covid baby, and there were hurdles that we had to face, I was so proud of that record,” he attests. With the exception of cutting the drums in a Los Angeles recording studio, A Window of the Waking Mindwas a remote project, a new experience for Coheed and Cambria, but one worth repeating, according to Sanchez. “The material on The Father of Make Believe has the same DNA, so I was like, ‘Let’s just copy what we did last time, and we’ll deal with the future later.’"

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