Ten Speed (of God's Blood & Burial)
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"Ten Speed" is a song by rock
band Coheed and Cambria
from their 2005 album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
. It is the third single from the album. The band requested that fans come to Los Angeles
to appear in the video, which was released summer 2006, in Europe.
In the Good Apollo graphic novel, Ten Speed is the manifestation of the Writing Writer's evil thoughts in the form of a bicycle. Ten Speed tries to convince the Writer to kill off a character named Ambellina. Ambellina is a Prise who is sent to watch over the story's main character, Claudio Kilgannon
. The Writer discovers that Ambellina is based on his own cheating ex-girlfriend, Miss Erica Court, and to get over her, he must kill off the Ambellina character.
A cover version
of the song is available as a downloadable track to play on the rhythm video game Rock Band as of January 29, 2008 making it the second playable song by Coheed and Cambria, the other being Welcome Home. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50780 Because of the complex recording, the master track is impossible to be implemented. A cover version by WaveGroup was used.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band Coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York. Formed in 1995, the group incorporates aspects of progressive rock, punk rock, metal and post-hardcore....
from their 2005 album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is the third studio album by prog quartet Coheed and Cambria. It was released on September 20, 2005...
. It is the third single from the album. The band requested that fans come to Los Angeles
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to appear in the video, which was released summer 2006, in Europe.
In the Good Apollo graphic novel, Ten Speed is the manifestation of the Writing Writer's evil thoughts in the form of a bicycle. Ten Speed tries to convince the Writer to kill off a character named Ambellina. Ambellina is a Prise who is sent to watch over the story's main character, Claudio Kilgannon
Claudio Kilgannon
Claudio Kilgannon is the main character of the story The Amory Wars, which is the concept behind the albums of the band Coheed and Cambria. The setting of this story is Heaven's Fence, a locale also commonly referred to as The Keywork although these two are not the same thing.The story is further...
. The Writer discovers that Ambellina is based on his own cheating ex-girlfriend, Miss Erica Court, and to get over her, he must kill off the Ambellina character.
A cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of the song is available as a downloadable track to play on the rhythm video game Rock Band as of January 29, 2008 making it the second playable song by Coheed and Cambria, the other being Welcome Home. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50780 Because of the complex recording, the master track is impossible to be implemented. A cover version by WaveGroup was used.