Blood Red Summer
"Blood Red Summer" | ||||
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Single by Coheed and Cambria | ||||
from the album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | ||||
Released | November 9, 2004 | |||
Recorded | 2003 | |||
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Length | 4:05 | |||
Label | Columbia, Equal Vision | |||
Songwriter(s) | Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever, Josh Eppard, Mic Todd | |||
Producer(s) | Michael Birnbaum, Chris Bittner | |||
Coheed and Cambria singles chronology | ||||
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"Blood Red Summer" is the second single and sixth track from Coheed and Cambria's second studio album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. A video was recorded and received airplay on MTV, MTV2, and Fuse. The video was on the first preview disk packaged with the PlayStation Portable. The song peaked at 29 on the US Alternative Songs chart.[3]
Music video
The music video of the song (directed by Marc Webb) begins with lead singer/guitarist, Claudio Sanchez, in a cabin in the woods. He is shown setting up alarms and booby traps such as trip wires and spot lights outside the cabin and constructing a fence to surround the cabin. All the while he sees fellow band members Travis Stever, Michael Todd, and Josh Eppard, only to suddenly close his eyes and then they are gone. Claudio is then shown sitting in a store room surrounded by shelves of canned food, batteries, and bottled water, eating Campbell's soup from the can. As he eats, the spot lights come on and Claudio rushes to the nearest window to see his band mates outside running through his traps.
Travis, Michael, and Josh all have glowing, red eyes and move in staggered motions. While looking through a spacing in the wooden door, Claudio fires an arrow from a compound bow which hits Josh in the chest but barely fazes him. The three "infected" band members eventually break into the cabin and surround Claudio, attacking him. Claudio wakes up on the floor in front of a door and seems dazed. As his eyes open they are glowing red as well. The video ends with the four band members staggering off through the woods, possibly in search of their next victim.
Single track listings
CD
- "Blood Red Summer" (4:05)
Song credits
Performers
- Claudio Sanchez (Vocals/Guitar)
- Travis Stever (guitar)
- Michael Todd (bass)
- Joshua Eppard (drums/Backing Vocals)
Producers
Recorded at Applehead Studios in Woodstock, New York for Ill-Air Productions.
- Michael Birnbaum
- Chris Bittner
Mastered by
- Roger Lian at Masterdisk
Charts
Chart | Peak Position |
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US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[3] | 29 |
References
- ^ Sacher, Andrew (March 16, 2021). "15 albums that shaped progressive post-hardcore in the 2000s". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
- ^ Serra, David. "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth - Coheed and Cambria | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
- ^ a b "Coheed and Cambria - Alternative Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
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- Claudio Sanchez
- Travis Stever
- Josh Eppard
- Zach Cooper
- Michael Todd
- Chris Pennie
- Matt Williams
- Jon Carleo
- Nate Kelley
- Dave Parker
- 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)
- Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007)
- Year of the Black Rainbow (2010)
- The Afterman: Ascension (2012)
- The Afterman: Descension (2013)
- The Color Before the Sun (2015)
- Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (2018)
- Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind (2022)
- The Afterman (Live Edition)
- "A Favor House Atlantic"
- "Blood Red Summer"
- "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3"
- "Welcome Home"
- "The Suffering"
- "The Running Free"
- "Here We Are Juggernaut"
- "You Got Spirit, Kid"
- "Jessie's Girl 2"
- Live at the Starland Ballroom
- The Last Supper: Live at Hammerstein Ballroom
- Neverender: Children of The Fence Edition
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