Coheed & Cambria have released a new single, "Shoulders," their first original new song since 2018. It finds the band embracing their love of classic heavy metal riffage, before exploding into the kind of soaring chorus that Coheed have been churning out since day one. It unmistakably the work of Coheed, and they sound pretty damn inspired for a band two decades into their career. Listen and watch the lyric video below.

No official word yet on a new album, but frontman Claudio Sanchez recently shed some light on the band's next album in an interview with Consequence:

I’ll be honest. A lot of times, with bands who’ve been around and built a strong fanbase like we have, I think there might be a tendency, intentionally or unintentionally, to try to give the fans what they want and not take too many risks. But after making music for so long and entering a pandemic, we didn’t want limitations to the creative process. The [next] record is going to be what I hope people perceive this band to be in 2021/2022.

It’s a modern record. It’s a Coheed and Cambria record, but it’s looking forward, not backwards.

He also adds, "I think the biggest influence of the record is my son and navigating parenthood within this strange new world we all found ourselves in." Stay tuned for more on Coheed's tenth LP.

Coheed also have an upcoming tour with The Used and Meet Me @ The Altar (including a NJ show at PNC Bank Arts Center on 9/19), and they're setting sail aboard their S.S. Neverender cruise in October.

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