This song is a great example of what I love about this new album. On one level, it fits into the overall ongoing story of these two records, which kind of serve as a sort of background story for the world of Heaven's Fence and the Keywork, but on another it is clearly a personal story that Claudio is telling about the band's ex-bassist Mic Todd. (That part's according to Claudio himself in a recent interview.)
The "Key Entity Extraction" songs in general seem to be about these people (or maybe ghosts of people?) that Sirius Amory encounters while discovering the Keywork. Domino appears to be a boxer taken in by the dark side of the sport and manipulated into a life of crime and eventually dying because of it. That story is of course analogous to Mic Todd's own, if his recent arrest is any indication. I think it's awesome that Claudio is able to write such a personal song that also fits in with the high concept of the band's music...even if it's perhaps a bit heavy handed.
I figured the song was so much more than the story. The dedication he put into it with intricacies like the maniacal laughing, which weren't in any other recent songs let me know this was personal for him. It's great how he managed to distance himself from the story, allow creative process, yet expose so much of his personal experiences to the audience. It's why I've been a coheed fan since IKSSE:3.
I figured the song was so much more than the story. The dedication he put into it with intricacies like the maniacal laughing, which weren't in any other recent songs let me know this was personal for him. It's great how he managed to distance himself from the story, allow creative process, yet expose so much of his personal experiences to the audience. It's why I've been a coheed fan since IKSSE:3.
This song is a great example of what I love about this new album. On one level, it fits into the overall ongoing story of these two records, which kind of serve as a sort of background story for the world of Heaven's Fence and the Keywork, but on another it is clearly a personal story that Claudio is telling about the band's ex-bassist Mic Todd. (That part's according to Claudio himself in a recent interview.)
The "Key Entity Extraction" songs in general seem to be about these people (or maybe ghosts of people?) that Sirius Amory encounters while discovering the Keywork. Domino appears to be a boxer taken in by the dark side of the sport and manipulated into a life of crime and eventually dying because of it. That story is of course analogous to Mic Todd's own, if his recent arrest is any indication. I think it's awesome that Claudio is able to write such a personal song that also fits in with the high concept of the band's music...even if it's perhaps a bit heavy handed.
I figured the song was so much more than the story. The dedication he put into it with intricacies like the maniacal laughing, which weren't in any other recent songs let me know this was personal for him. It's great how he managed to distance himself from the story, allow creative process, yet expose so much of his personal experiences to the audience. It's why I've been a coheed fan since IKSSE:3.
I figured the song was so much more than the story. The dedication he put into it with intricacies like the maniacal laughing, which weren't in any other recent songs let me know this was personal for him. It's great how he managed to distance himself from the story, allow creative process, yet expose so much of his personal experiences to the audience. It's why I've been a coheed fan since IKSSE:3.