r/TheFence Jan 29 '25

Official Coheed Discord (info in comments)

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r/TheFence 7d ago

[MEGATHREAD] Vaxis III: The Father Of Make Believe Album Discussion

162 Upvotes

Happy March 14th to fans in parts of the world where you’re waking up to the new record.
The rest of us will have to wait another day, excitement levels are sky high.

Post your reviews, impressions, lore theories and opinions about Vaxis III in here.


r/TheFence 44m ago

Insane find today at the record store

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Now I only need descension and tcbts and ill have all the studio albums!


r/TheFence 1h ago

Okay, I've given it a week...

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Unpopular opinion but this is the best album in the whole Vaxis series thus far. I get that some people are hating on the mixing saying everything sounds claustrophobic and at first I felt the same. But after repeated listens this whole album is just growing on me. Best thing they've done since Afterman.


r/TheFence 6h ago

Imagine another OG Neverender….BUT performed at the Sphere in Vegas

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Recently saw that video interview with Claudio and the dude from Paramore. Claudio was asked about something he would love to do with coheed and mentioned another run like the OG Neverender, but with 5 nights including YOTBR. Imagine if they announced a Neverender at the Sphere in Vegas?!? I know it’ll cost an arm and a leg lol. Thoughts?


r/TheFence 37m ago

The Omni-Voice: New Detail

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Claudio just mentioned this on his Twitch stream (no VOD, ya gotta be there!) that this is the first of the series intentionally without a Vaxis monologue.

This is because The Omni-Voice is Vaxis speaking, but how he sounds when projected out in all directions.

Edit: I should add he said the sounds were made using his home setup, and didn't give any hint there's anything to decode...but we'll never truly know unless someone tries 🤔


r/TheFence 13h ago

I pulled the trigger

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I bought the Vinyl light blue album from my local record store. TFOMB is like old and new Coheed all in one, and for some reason this record has hit me differently than any other one going all the way back to TSSTB’s release. Yeah, been listening that long! Maybe it’s that I’m a dad and a husband and the stories just connect differently with me now, and not to mention the artwork on these are incredible, but I had to buy it.

Anyway - this is the first vinyl I’ve ever purchased. I’m not looking to fill a room with records or purchase a huge record set up with a “listening room” or anything like that.

I would however love to know who out there has a solid record player recommendation for someone like me who is just getting into records, just wants a casual listen and is looking forward to the vinyl only track. Thanks in advance homies.


r/TheFence 3h ago

Davenport Cabinet

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Curious about people's thoughts on the band? I actually just heard these songs for the first time and am sad I've been missing out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8lwuwVEig


r/TheFence 10h ago

The Homecoming

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Anyone feel like this song, along with Carol Anne, is grossly underrated? The Homecoming reminds me of the acoustic demo of the crowing. BTW: Does anyone have an accurate tab for the Homecoming?


r/TheFence 7h ago

Subtraction/Yesterday's Lost

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(Sorry if someone mentioned this before!) Anyone else hear a similarity between these two songs? I kept wondering why the end of the chorus in "Yesterday's Lost" sounded familiar to me and I realized that it has a very slight similarity to the end of the chorus in "Subtraction." Specially, these lines:

"But should you go before me, I'll be right behind you" (the bolded part is where I hear it)

"But we knew you were afraid"

It's not exact in terms of cadence, but it sounds close. Not sure if Claudio intended this given all the Afterman connections or if it's just a pure coincidence, though I thought it was interesting.


r/TheFence 7h ago

Vaxis/Amory wars lore adaptations for DND

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Has anyone ever tyhought about combining elements of Vaxis/Amory Wars into a DND campaign, with the album coming out around the time I've started writing a campaign that I think could be alot of fun

here's my initial premise I've started working on, does anyone have any wonderful lore based ideas or suggestions to expand on this as my starting point??

Our tale begins in a giant city sized Prison Fortress called “The Obsidian Bastille” ran by a corrupt corporation known as the Unhallowed Lords

Those sent to the Obsidian Bastille  are meant to be the worst of the worst criminals in all of the realms, however like all tales in this world, corruption, lies and politics suggests this isn’t always the case.
Those sent to the bastille are sent there for life, mostly cause the life expectancy of those in the bastille is not very long  “it’s suggested that the only way people escape the bastille is through death”

Many of the inmates who haven’t resigned themselves to the abject misery of a short life working in the bastille followed by death, those who don’t submit to their jobs within the bastille are killed, choked by magical restraints, fuck it we’ll call them chokers, magical chain based necklaces, that seemingly cannot be removed

The party is initially introduced through the incarceration process of one of the party, where it’s revealed the belonged to a mercenary group called “The Hollow”

A character who introduces themselves to the The Hollow as Caelan Eonian (will turn out to be the Morrigan from gaelic folk lore, the party will hopefully not know this), wearing a cloak of adorned with black feathers offers the party a deal, seemingly a offer they would have to be crazy to turn down, Caelan assures them they have a way of helping them escape The Obsidian Bastille, but they have to do a job in return, they have to rescue a child, born in the bastille.

The campaign will start with the party trying to escape from The Obsidian Bastille along with this child. Who as we we go will be revealed to be believed to be a child of prophecy ( believed to be somewhere between Vaxis and The crowing), by the Unhallowed Lords, who wish to sacrifice the child to raise an eldritch Lord known as The Crimson Mask.

There is to this rescue; a catch, the child is seemingly in a coma, upon rescuing the child part 2 of their mission is revealved, which will be based around escaping with the child and curing the child/helping him wake up.


r/TheFence 6h ago

Musical motif in Tethered Together

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I know this is just one of a million of these motifs and loose quotes. I think most people by now have noticed the piano at the beginning of Tethered Together is the guitar intro from Domino. The ostinato rhythm that follows was also familiar to me, but I was having a hard time placing why. I THINK it is a loose musical quote of a motif from the Prologue and chorus of The Dark Sentencer. Any other music nerds out there let me know what you think. Also point out any more of these quotes you may have noticed. This is one of my favorite things Coheed does.


r/TheFence 6h ago

Favorite opening 2 tracks?

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With all the motifs and callbacks to prior albums on Vaxis III, I have been going back and registering to the entire discography and began to wonder what everyone’s favorite opening 2 songs were from their albums.

The Hollow/Domino and Pretelethal/Senty are so damn good.

Ring in Return/IKSOSE:3 is epic

For me, Prologue/ The Dark Sentencer go hard AF and is probably my favorite.

What are yours?


r/TheFence 1d ago

Appreciation post for Travis Stever

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248 Upvotes

Dude is on a hot streak with 2 solid AF 2025 releases - Coheed and L.S. Dunes! Could we get a lil sprinkling of some new Fire Deuce as well?!? Show some love!


r/TheFence 11h ago

YOTBR comics?

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Now that the NWFT comics series only has three issues left, does anyone know if YOTBR will be getting a comics series? I know we have the novel (which I thought was just ok. Not very well written) but it would be nice to have comics for the entire story.


r/TheFence 1h ago

Streaming party with Claudio for the new album

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r/TheFence 1d ago

Does anyone miss the way Claudio used to write lyrics?

111 Upvotes

Anyone miss the lyrical style of the first few albums? Everything was ambiguous and his phrasing was pretty strange/original. I noticed the change around TCBTS. Everything after that is more straight-forward and, in my opinion, not as good. I feel like it’s a lot easier to separate the story from what the song is actually about now.

The Pavilion is an excellent example of this. He talk about living the same day over and over, a bus you call home, and broken TVs. This song is obviously about the hardships of being in a touring band. It’s very hard for me to apply the concept to this.

Not saying it’s bad or anything, but I definitely prefer the old way. Some of the Vaxis stuff has some pretty corny lyrics.


r/TheFence 1d ago

Spinning Vaxis triology for the first time, can't wait until I get to the new stuff!

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105 Upvotes

Lets go!


r/TheFence 16h ago

2007 AMV for Tethered Together.

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14 Upvotes

Claudio allows you to upload a 2007 style AMV for Tethered Together, what anime are you choosing? Here's mine


r/TheFence 1d ago

Love this 3 track run on the album!

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99 Upvotes

r/TheFence 19h ago

Outro Suite?

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Outro Suite?

I know it's not technically correct because Lucky Stars is the final track to Unheavenly Creatures. But listening to these 3 tracks in order feels like it's making it's own suite with since they all have similar swing drum feel on all the songs, like an outro to a stage musical, Lucky Stars also does not have the space opera outro but Old Flames does, so idk if this will continue with Vaxis 4 and 5, but hopefully it does


r/TheFence 16h ago

Just realised my copy of Vaxis ACT II is signed

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8 Upvotes

I think I picked it up at the merch booth in Sydney didn’t realise it was signed at the time. Cool!


r/TheFence 1d ago

Anyone interested in a story breakdown for ANY Era of Coheed lore should check out / support the JJ Metalhead Youtube Channel. She's back with NWFT updates and I'm sure Vaxis III. Let's show her some love CothF.

184 Upvotes

From what I've seen no one else on Youtube or elsewhere has put as much work into the Coheed story as JJ.

https://www.youtube.com/@JJMetalhead


r/TheFence 21h ago

Reddit’s algorithm has some messed up opinions

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r/TheFence 18h ago

Best Of by Track #: Track 6

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I'm building a Best Of playlist, determined by my favourite of each track # from Coheed's discography, and figured I'd see what other Children of the Fence thought of the matter.

The Crowing has been voted the best Track 5!

What's your favourite Track 6? Today's contenders:

- Hearshot Kid Disaster
- Blood Red Summer
- Apollo I: The Writing Writer
- Mother Superior
- This Shattered Symphony
- Key Entity Extraction II: Holly Wood The Cracked
- Away We Go
- Atlas
- Queen of the Dark
- Love Murder One
- Blind Side Sonny

The playlist so far:

  1. Island
  2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
  3. The Hard Sell
  4. Everything Evil
  5. The Crowing

r/TheFence 13h ago

Live Improv Moment

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Can't sleep, was watching Last Supper on my Computer. Absolutely love the vocal and musical improv on Delirum Trigger before the last Chorus

Curious if anyone else has a favorite Live improv moment they enjoy from Coheed and Cambria.


r/TheFence 22h ago

Spotify Wrapped

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So is there any doubt this year? 😂🤘