Coheed and Cambria's fifth album pairs the band's affinity for complex storylines with tight, sticky hooks, making for a compact, prog-fueled hard-rock supernova. Tentacle-like synths and spiderweb drums entangle on "Guns of Summer," while on "Here We Are Juggernaut," vocalist Claudio Sanchez wails conspiratorially over an avalanche of metallic riffs and seething keyboards. Even the LP's denser songs, like the vintage heavy-metal creeper "In the Flame of Error," possess an accessible edge, welcoming listeners into their thrashing, expansive latticework.