The Second Stage Turbine Blade

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.

Story
The album introduces the husband and wife characters Coheed and Cambria, the characters from whom the band's name originates.

This album is one of five Coheed and Cambria albums (the others being Year of the Black Rainbow, Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures, Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind, and the non-conceptual The Color Before the Sun) not to have a multi-part suite, as In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 had the "Camper Velourium" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness had the "Willing Well" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow had the "End Complete" series, and The Afterman: Ascension and Descension albums had the "Key Entity Extraction" series.

Track listing
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.

Personnel

 * Coheed and Cambria
 * Claudio Sanchez – vocals, rhythm guitar
 * Josh Eppard – drums, piano
 * Michael Todd – bass, vocals
 * Travis Stever – lead guitar


 * Additional
 * Michael Birnbaum – production, mixing
 * Chris Bittner – production, mixing
 * Jayson Dezuzio – recording, pre-production
 * Roger Lian – mastering
 * Nate Kelley – drums (on "Delirium Trigger" and "33")
 * Dr. Know – guitar (on "Time Consumer")
 * Todd Martin – recording (on "Delirium Trigger" and "33")
 * Montana Masback – additional vocals (on "Hearshot Kid Disaster")

Tie-in comics
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.