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Several bands over the course of rock & roll history have worked an ongoing mythology into their records: Jamie Hewlett's elliptical story line told within and between the albums and videos by Gorillaz, for example, or the freaky apocalyptic science fiction plot line, complete with lyrics in a made-up language, that was at the heart of French prog rock outfit Magma. In the midst of their career, however, the neo-prog alt-metal outfit Coheed & Cambria did something quite possibly without precedent: their primary story line, a multi-generational blood feud between three families known as the Amory Wars, grew so complex that one of the band's members started an entirely separate solo project, the Prize Fighter Inferno, to set up part of the story in a different musical style. The mastermind of the Prize Fighter Inferno is Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer and lyricist of Coheed & Cambria, who also pens an ongoing online graphic novel that fleshes out the primary story line. Sanchez had bee...