Blood Red Summer - (2004)
Music Video/Single by Coheed and Cambria
While I just reviewed what was considered to be Coheed and Cambria's most straight forward emo track, I am about to review their most straight forward pop rock track. At least at this point in their discography. Blood Red Summer is a very fun and catchy track that uses the same ironic formula heavily used on their debut. Darker/negative lyrics with an upbeat attitude. It's not like the song is about suicide or anything but you can see the negative lyrics are still there. It works again on this track, and is becoming one of my favorite tracks off of the album. It might overtake The Crowing on my list. The track itself in relation to the story is that Claudio is talking to his uncle Jesse "The Prize Fighter" Inferno, about taking on the duties of saving his universe. Pretty big stuff but all will be revealed in my story review once it is up. (Ok that is the last time I am mentioning that.) The song is a pop song that fits the radio. There really isn't much else to be said about the track. The singing and instrumentation are par for the course and the lyrics are cool. It probably is a pretty bad representation of the band overall though as we do not see as many pop rock tracks this early on in their discography.
As for the video, once again the lyrics and the video do not match up. No story elements here. What we do get is a fun little side show with Claudio setting up traps to protect him and a wooden cabin out in the middle of the woods from something. As he finishes setting up wire traps and light fixtures he sits down to eat a meal of canned noodles. Then his former bandmates begin to show up with blood red eyes looking to eat him. Its very light on any gore though. The closest thing is an arrow going straight into someones chest and them spitting out what looks to be water. Then he pulls it out and continues running. There was obviously a point where all of the members lived in the cabin as Claudio is experiencing flashbacks of his bandmates hanging around. The bandmates were probably converted to these blood red eye zombies and are coming after Claudio and ripping through the cabin's defenses. It all ends with Claudio getting converted to the blood red eye zombies and he and the other three zombies walk towards a bright light. As for the presentation aspects, Claudio's lip-syncing is pretty bad and feels awkward at times. The song sounds fine with the video and doesn't really affect the video's or the song's quality. Overall the video is fun but I still would like to see a story based video that isn't animated.
The song gets a like and the video also gets a like. Not enough here to give it a meh or dislike in the form of cons.
Listen to it yourself and give me your opinions. Like it? Dislike it? Why?