This Heart is Everlasting

The Amory Wars (the story arc prevalent in the music of Coheed and Cambria) is named after the street on which its author, Claudio Sanchez, lived as a child. Philologists, however, will note a second connection that is likely unintended but uncannily accurate.

The Latin root word “amor” translates as “love”. What better title to encircle the tale of a universe whose destruction comes by a chain of events begun by a desperate act of love? This theme is blatantly recurrent through the entire saga, and for all its sci-fi grandiosity the Amory Wars remains an archetypal testament to sacrifice, hope, and redemption in the name of love.

Unintentional, maybe… but fitting.