The Prize Fighter Inferno
The Prize Fighter Inferno is an acoustic/electronica solo side project of Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the band Coheed and Cambria. The first album, called "My Brother's Blood Machine" was released on October 31st, 2006 through indie label Equal Vision Records.
Music
Before the album's release, three official songs were available for listening online:
- The Fight Of Moses Early & Sir Arthur McCloud
- The Margretville Town Dance (later changed to The Margretville Dance)
- The Missing McCloud Boys
- Blood Machine*
These songs are available on the band's official MySpace page. Claudio Sanchez has confirmed that The Margretville Dance is to be the record's first single.
A 30 second clip of the song "78" was available on various websites advertising the release of the cd.
- Blood Machine was a song that was available on the band's myspace page. It was not released on the album.
Discography
"My Brother's Blood Machine" (Equal Vision Records 2006)
The Plot & Characters Of "My Brother's Blood Machine"
Like the albums of Coheed And Cambria, this album revolves around the same concept, with such recurring themes as the McCloud family and references to missing children. The only difference is that this album is being told from the point of view of a character known as "The Prizefighter Inferno" a.k.a. Jesse from the Coheed And Cambria concept. Contrary to popular belief, the series will not be called "The Amory Wars". Claudio is infact redoing The Bag On Line Adventures with a new artist and it is being renamed The Amory Wars.
The name of the upcoming album, My Brother's Blood Machine, is also a phrase that appears in Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. This story is set in the past of the universe from the Amory Wars. In an interview with rock-sound.net in 2005, Claudio Sanchez has said that the two stories "do connect, but not in the most obvious way."
Long-arm and Butchie Bleam brothers brought together by physical distortion and social seclusion are about to find themselves in the running for the most unusual job in the world.....DEATH! Listen to the story unfold as we follow these two misunderstood yet maniacal minstrels of macabre in a neverending race for ultimate power. Listen to the disturbing details as the songs takes you through the hell that is the Blood Machine. This is a story being told in song......this is hell being unleashed through love and sound...... I am the hitchhiker doomed to tell the tale of Margretville, I am your Guide, I am the Prizefighter Inferno.
In an interview posted by MTV News on September 29th, 2006, Claudio goes into much greater detail about the plot:
"Well, this story actually acts as a prequel to the Amory Wars," the center of the Coheed and Cambria mythology, Sanchez explains. The Inferno character, who appears in the Coheed concept as a man named Jesse, "dies in the Good Apollo: Volume One, and is resurrected on present-day Earth. So he leaves the solar system that the story takes place in, and gets resurrected in the present day. But before he can tell the story of the Amory Wars, he needs to tell the story of the Blood Machine."
Hang in there — it gets even more complex. "The Blood Machine revolves around three families, one being the Bleam family, who are our horrific sort of 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' family," he continued. "There's the McCloud family — where we have our main character, Cecilia — and the Early family. And [Cecilia's] love interest is the son of that family, Johnny. And there are so many subplots. One, for example, talks about how Cecilia's father happens to molest her, and eventually she can't take it anymore and tries to convince Johnny to leave with her. She steals her two brothers, who happen to be twins, and Johnny decides not to go. So she ends up running away with the twins into the woods, where she meets the Bleam family."
Sanchez said that there are two Bleam brothers — Long-Arm and Butchie — who are horrific monsters. "Their mother happens to be crazy, and she ends up telling these two kids that 'God has come to me with a higher calling for you — you need to be the new Death,' and she tells them that they have to go out and collect souls for God," he explained. "And so, out of their mind, they're like, 'OK, so when a body dies, how do we get the soul out of it?' They construct this Blood Machine, which basically tears a body to shreds, and they think that releases the soul."
Sanchez said there are numerous subplots that will unfold as well, including the elaborate background of the Bleam kith: The family's patriarch, a meth addict, dismembers his wife when he catches her pinching from his stash, and her death sends the Bleam boys on a downward spiral toward complete madness.