The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut - (2006)
Music Video/Single by Coheed and Cambria
Well I’m an idiot and can’t remember anything. I missed one more video from Good Apollo Part 1. The final track on the record, it culminates all of the hate and anger seething through some of the tracks. Storywise, the writer (the one telling the story) decides the best way to end it is by killing off the Prise Amberlina a representation of his cheating girlfriend in his life. What ends up happening in the world of the Amory Wars, is that the army of the tri-mage Ryan Wilhelm and Claudio’s rebel forces clash with the climax being the death of Amberlina. Songwise it is a pretty typical piece of prog rock from these guys. Lyrics are different, instrumentation is spaced out, and the track pleases because of this. I dig the solo and the vocal delivery I feel is on point. I do feel it could have been a bit shorter by a hair, but it’s not that big of a deal.
The video however, NSFW. Watch it and you will see what I mean. It is a representation of the writer killing his girlfriend for cheating on him. It’s actually related to the story this time so that’s good on them. The quality of the video and audio is crap, but it was self produced so I guess it was expected. The track fits well with the video, but the effect is sort of lost due to the garbage quality. If it were redone with a better production budget it might be better, but in its current state it has a hard time presenting the message effectively.
The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut gets a like while the video is a meh.
Listen to it yourself and give me your opinions. Like it? Dislike it? Why?