Year Of The Black Rainbow' provides the long awaited prequel to the band's four previous inter-related concept albums Ś The Second Stage Turbine Blade' (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3' (2003); Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV', Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness' (2005) and Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow' (2007) - which comprise "The Amory Wars," the conceptual narrative driving the band's lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. Year Of The Black Rainbow' is also likely to be the final installment of the narrative of "The Amory Wars.
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