Prize Fighter Inferno, the bio

Claudio Sanchez

Whether you have invested a little or a lot in the Coheed and Cambria Chronicles, The Prize Fighter Inferno is a separate, more accessible world to sink into. In addition to achieving success with Coheed and Cambria, Claudio Sanchez is now taking on a whole new story angle as The Prize Fighter Inferno and a new album entitled My Brother's Blood Machine.

In the last installment of Coheed and Cambria, we witnessed the death of the character Inferno, often referred to as Jesse (Coheed's Brother) in the previous volumes. Inferno, the narrator of those stories, has now been resurrected on present-day Earth where he must tell the story of My Brother's Blood Machine, which pre-dates the Coheed and Cambria chronicles. Of the 11 songs on the album, we hear a softer side of Sanchez enveloped in mellow electronic grooves and gentle compositions. Some tracks adopt dance rhythms while others are hypnotizing in melody and verse.

"It wouldn't make sense for me to do Coheed again in a side project," says Sanchez. "Side projects should be very left field. I knew some of the material I was working on for Inferno wasn't fit for Coheed, but I wanted to release it. A lot of the material is kind of old; some of it about 7-8 years old. It's been a big work in progress. I love folk music and singer/songwriters, and I very much like sequencing and digital electronic music, so I just figured 'why not?'

"When we were called Shabutie (Coheed's original moniker), the initial idea for Coheed and Cambria was to be an acoustic/electronic side project. So I guess The Prize Fighter Inferno is kind of the original idea for Coheed and Cambria," says Sanchez.