Bone Palace Ballet: Grand Coda

Chiodos | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Equal Vision Records
• ASIN: B001G7EGEC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,647 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The much-anticipated sophomore effort from Davison, Michigan's emo-metal-pop-punk heroes, Chiodos!

Recorded with up and coming producer Casey Bates (Portugal The Man, Fear Before The March of Flames) and mixed by award-winning engineer David Bendeth (Paramore, Breaking Benjamin, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus), Bone Palace Ballet is poised to break Chiodos into superstardom.

"It's great to go by the Smartpunk stage and see Chiodos' crowds growing with each stop of the tour. Word is defiantly out on these guys."
- Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman (July 2006) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, October 30, 2007

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Vaughn Deyhle - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bone Palace Ballet (Audio CD)

Yeah, I grabbed this CD as a gamble. Hadn't heard any of their songs, hadn't heard of the band. The cover caught my eye and the song titles tickled me just so. So I took a gamble.

And you know, I should HATE this album but I don't. Not quite my particular style of music but you can't deny they're good at WHAT THEY DO. Can't say that for everyone. (I'm looking at you, Fred Durst!) Yeah, the singer really, really sounds like a girl. Yeah, the album is uneven at times. But it's richly textured and got some very beautiful moments. I like the use of keyboards and how well it intertwines with everything else.

One thing that totally buggered me though: IT'S SO BLOODY SHORT!! First off, I like to get my money's worth. But also I gotta say, this album when it started off gave me the impression it was going to be epic in length, something I like a lot. It ain't. Some short albums out there are good but this one left me unsatisfied. I like throwing in Colors by Between The Buried And Me and just letting the whole monstrous thing wash over me ... it's exhausting but great, I feel invested in the album. This on the other hand feels like it's missing a good 20 minutes at least.

Still, they're intriguing to me and I'll probably pick up their other album, whatever it's called.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Follow-Up Album, September 12, 2007

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J. Liu (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bone Palace Ballet (Audio CD)

I've read the other reviews, and feel the need to defend this album. I'm a huge Chiodos fan and see them live any chance I get.

Bone Palace Ballet is a good 'sophmoric' album of sorts. I own "The Heartless Control Everything" and don't really consider that their first album since they seemed to still be discovering themselves. As everyone reading this knows "All's Well that Ends Well" was a sick album because of songs like 'Nereids', 'Best Friends' and 'No Penguins in Alaska' (sorry for the shortened titles, i'm at work). For the most part, fans don't listen to Chiodos for the 'Queen of Diamonds' or 'Lindsay Quit Lolligagging' which Bone Palace Ballet seemed to lack (for the most part). By further seperating Chiodos from these soft songs and pushing them into their side project, Cinematic Sunrise, Chiodos fans are getting a more refined, better defined Chiodos with every new album.

As for the structure of Bone Palace Ballet, every song follows the waltzy theme the album title suggests, which isn't a bad thing. This album is a bit different than their previous two, but shows the band's diversity. They went slighly softer, but held the tempo to a reasonable height throughout the album. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of their heavier tracks, but at least there weren't filler interludes and acoustic tracks like the previous album.

If you're a Chiodos fan, you can't not buy this album. It's not too far of a drop-off in intensity that you can claim they've sold out. The consistency of the theme throughout the album also sells me on their future albums. It shows me that the band has found their identity; understand that we, as fans, don't appreciate filler tracks; and will likely deliver another killer album in the future once they pick a more rockin' theme.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Epic Follow-up, June 7, 2010

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thethingaboutimmortality (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bone Palace Ballet (Audio CD)

From start to finish this album is simply breath-takingly amazing. From the steller opening track, "Is it Progression if a Cannibal Uses a Fork", you know you're in for a wild ride. And the ride is indeed wild and more than worthwhile. This is piano-laced, scream-riddled post-hardcore at it's greatest. The vocalist, Craig Owens, is definitely one of my all-time favorite singers, effortlessly switching from beautiful singing to a blood-chilling wail the next. What's truly amazing is that Chiodos, while creating some of the finest, horror-movie vibe songs you will ever hear, they also prove they can turn things down a notch and produce some truly gorgeous soft tracks (check out "A Letter From Janelle" and "The Intensity In Ten Cities"). And they have some wicked song titles as well, all of which live up to their interesting names- "I Never Said I was Powerful, I Said I was a Wizard", "If I Cut My Hair Hawaii Will Sink", and "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered". The last spoken words of closer "The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge is Unstoppable (The Final Battle)" describe the album perfectly- "Empty? Don't Talk to me about empty". It perfectly sums up the whirlwind of emotions and gothic atmosphere that surrounds the album- but there's also a sense of hope, a senses of survival that clings to it from beginning to end.

Definitely worth checking out.