| The Second Stage Turbine Blade | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Coheed and Cambria |
| Cover: | CoheedAndCambriaSSTB.jpg |
| Released: | March 5, 2002 |
| Recorded: | October – November 2001 |
| Studio: | Stainglass Studio in Paramus, New Jersey |
| Length: | 48:44 |
| Prev Title: | Delirium Trigger |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
The Second Stage Turbine Blade is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. It was originally released on March 5, 2002 through Equal Vision Records. It is their first album and part one of a tetralogy, telling the story of The Amory Wars. It was re-released on September 20, 2005, and included three previously unreleased bonus tracks.
The album introduces the husband and wife characters Coheed and Cambria, the characters from whom the band's name originates.[1]
This album is one of five Coheed and Cambria albums (the others being Year of the Black Rainbow, , , and the non-conceptual The Color Before the Sun) not to have a multi-part suite, as had the "Camper Velourium" series, had the "Willing Well" series, had the "End Complete" series, and and Descension albums had the "Key Entity Extraction" series.
Note: On the standard ten-track edition, the hidden track "IRO-Bot" is contained in "God Send Conspirator"; however, on the deluxe edition, it is contained in the "Everything Evil" demo.
In the summer of 2004, Evil Ink Comics released a series of ten comic books as a tie-in to the album. Written by Claudio Sanchez and illustrated by Wes Abbot, the comics tell the story of Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon, a married couple who become unwittingly involved in interplanetary intrigue.