Coheed and Cambria - Devil in Jersey City

Music video by Coheed and Cambria performing Devil in Jersey City. (C) 2005 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

[@timelessperspective]

20 years ago I was a prominent Tae Kwon Do instructor and I drove an hour every day to work. The Second Stage Turbine Blade was the only album I had in my car for that whole year and I never got sick of it. It was the best thing I had ever heard.

[@bobbyguajardo9471]

Like many I was introduced to coheed by favor house Atlantic but when I discovered this album, it was all I could listen to. Like you for years.

[@Smotheredinpowderandlead]

It is an amazing album. These songs don’t leave.

[@samurai215]

Coheed And Cambria are probably the best band that too many people have never heard of.

[@alberoisto640]

At the drive in is up there too

[@ReaperKezia]

Protest the hero, Archspire & bloodred hourglass are all EXTREMELY underrated

[@PrettyRagdoll]

Yes.

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

Cky too

[@jimmygalindo2019]

Mastodon!!!!

[@zerovstheworrld]

i used to love this song years ago, in like middle school, and i JUST rediscovered this band by accident because i found out they’re performing with primus, a band i love. this is one of the best most creative bands ever, i can’t believe i forgot about this song and band

[@Schrodingers-Fat]

I can't believe it has been almost 19 years since this album was released. I remember the summer of 2002 so well.

[@seaandbells]

Mad isn’t it! I had delirium on a label sampler before the album hit, played it to a few friends who all laughed and hated it…..fast forward a few years and they all loved it!!

[@lortoubrowne6749]

So funny to see Claudio with short hair. This reminds me of when i used to watch this video, Brandnew, TBS, The Black Maria, Hawthorne Heights, Underoath and many bands in Yahoo! Launch, pre- KZbin.

[@AgentDewy]

Well over a decade ago an impressionable 15 year old saw this video and was inspired to pick up a guitar - and still plays to this day. Thank you, Claudio, for your musical genius.

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

There you go! A lot of their songs made me pick up the ax in a similar fashion.

[@xvaughanx]

That's pretty cool, for me it was the Ash song "Kung fu"

[@miggu333]

really now, I am always amazed, thank you very much

[@garko320]

This is the coheed I fell in love with

[@Dwickeh]

all these years later and only now I find out there's a music video for this.

[@Whatuhdo1]

Don’t feel bad, I’ve been a fan for 15 years and have a Keywork tattoo and this was my first time learning about it. Lol.

[@IS-hf4zx]

Here in 2020 saying the same thing

[@IS-hf4zx]

I probably saw it ages ago but forgot

[@herpdederp12]

I used to watch this video on their website bc KZbin wasnt a thing yet Pretty sure it was a tiny picture too but it's hard to remember

[@brennanputman7588]

2020 and i just found out.

[@sjaitalia88]

Lowkey one of the best albums of the 21st century. Come at me

[@chrisf1354]

It's my favourite album of all time.

[@Crazylegoman3791]

Yes

[@willdemi5618]

One of the only musicians who was a hardcore atdi fan who made an album that actually stands up to their legacy. Who else besides the band members other bands?

[@KnifeNinjaEDC]

2002. 18 year old me playing this album front to back. Over and over.

[@nobiazcustomsinc5030]

its been fun to watch the progression of claudios hair over the years lol. i remember when it was a mini fro when the band was still called shabutie playing backdoor cafe in Nyack NY lol

[@rakkon1]

👀

[@jerzkid87]

oh man this was one of those car cds with 'mixtape' sharpied on it and beach sand scratching it up. The kind youd find in the door pocket

[@aeriagloris4211]

You're a poet

[@theftking]

The way Claudio bounces as the camera shakes is so 2003 emo.

[@johnwilkesbo]

coheed and cambria was not emo

[@michaelblasius7705]

Emo-adjacent for sure

[@distilleromg]

How is it that a better video quality & improved audio hasn't been made yet? I'm not much of an audiophile but god damn it feels like the backs of my eyes go numb because my ears can't take the full load of the punishment.

[@brianortiz5100]

This helped me through a tough time in my life. Claudio singing along with the band expertise...they are greatness.

[@aeriagloris4211]

I was 12 or 13, My dad died of a heroin overdose - my mom has moved us into my grandma's house and I was sleeping on the couch, failing at school. I didn't give a fuck about anything except my cd player and my skateboard. I don't even know why I got the album, my god. Grabbed it from the store I think along with the system of a down album both had just come out. Time consumer, delirium trigger, everything evil changed my young life. And I was already aware of a broad range of music too. Had never heard anything like this before, shook me to my core. Emotion pouring off. Good god it's been over twenty years.

[@chrsev01]

I'm curious as to how this helped you? This is trauma trigger. This is about rape.

[@jbaer0]

@@chrsev01different people cope differently 😮

[@realitycheque22]

One of best bands Coheed!!!!!... been listening to them for 20 years!!! Great song!!!!

[@giovannisportello2740]

One of the best albums of the 21st century

[@breakalime]

Being in high school and listening to this song every day during morning registration on my friend's Creative ZEN.

[@emilya218]

I relate to this down to the zen

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

@@emilya218 SAME!!!!

[@PrettyRagdoll]

YES!! Omg, I felt like the only person in High School with a creative zen!

[@1isbetter]

I remember listening to this in 2002 now im 29 and still jamming out to this

[@SpaceCaptainCreations]

I was lucky to see them twice around the time this album came out. Freaking fantastic. I must say the live at starlight ballroom dvd is probably one of the best concert DVDs in my collection, one of the greatest live bands in the world.

[@randomazzhero]

Cant believe it took me until 2021 to discover this band

[@jayceorourke5672]

Same here dude

[@jiujitsugiek4705]

Came across Coheed at a Equal Vision Showcase in 2004 never looked back....been listening to them ever since

[@JAllen-c6s]

Those Equal Vision & Victory Record showcases back in the day were pure bliss

[@drewbocop]

this song still gives me goosebumps after all these years... finally seeing them, 16 years later soon :)

[@angelespiritu7260]

I listened to this song when I was a little and now I find myself listening to this song over and over again remembering my dad. I miss him so much😭😭😘😘

[@aeriagloris4211]

Hope you're doing okay.

[@7pines77]

I keep discovering my new favorite song every time I watch a different video from this band

[@t.mendoza1396]

i know the premise for this song is supposed to be sad but this song is so awesome

[@treychapa9941]

god 20 years in the making they are the best band EVER!

[@Ghostyfrost9688]

God damn this band is still sooooo good to listen to after all these years

[@aeriagloris4211]

It's ridiculous

[@austinwiebe3801]

This is early 2000s if I've ever seen it

[@crazyorchidlady8629]

i remember downloading this on limewire

[@peteralmosrajhoczki622]

+Von Vanta Memories ^^. Thank you, I almost forgot its name :D

[@tas9158]

Lol same

[@joshuabaca6257]

For shame

[@squirtlesquadblastoise7166]

Ah I bet your computer had some gnarly viruses

[@johncook7395]

Oh man. Those were the days! So many time I wish I could go back there. 😟

[@Jerichoswa11]

If you're listening to this song in 2021, look up Claudio Sanchez' comic books, The Amory Wars. Every Coheed song is based off the comics. This particular song is about some really dark material in the first book. Each book of the series shares the same name of every Coheed album, and each album follows the story.

[@willdemi5618]

This song is about going to see Thursday. Totally get it. I feel you Claudio.

[@willdemi5618]

Maybe murder city devils were CO headlining? Yeah puts it all in perspective.

[@korn454]

I recently started getting into these guys.

[@bosskat824]

thanks for sharing the song I love it I have for a long time

[@GOZARCK]

wow song from 2005 and now 2020 im here, and i love it!

[@Aweirdjoe]

Probably the Coheed song about the most disturbing part of the Amory wars story. Also the only video to have Coheed and Cambria to star in it

[@ghostface1183]

Only found them recently and fell in love specially with this song and the album that was released on my birth year and his voice is so unique it’s amazing

[@kennethwilliams5230]

Something spirals and equals a surplus in breathing allowing others to pass and you to chill whenever it asks for your soul does it seem possible to equip the incidental to a pride near you that nothing is of shame but everything in a direction it can flow to crashing in boundaries of an individual that sees the truth in speaking through silence that alters the course of embarrassment that's designed to get you to fix thyself for the climax that delivers restitution whenever work becomes a problem, that all is at ease when difficulties surmount to begging for the solution one might consider intrusive although inspired to network to end all exposure of little things that soon become unknown that starting off is greater than ending up with a unicycle allowing one to feel!

[@justinklebieka5486]

It's too bad that nobody heard of this band when they came out except for some of us LOL I grew up in Connecticut and I heard of this band they were right on the other side of tappan zee bridge

[@FacelessDenizen]

Still amazing.

[@thomascovino2443]

2021- moved to jersey city and this song hits diff

[@jemt1290]

For those not familiar with the Amory Wars (yeah, you see, there is a comic book series written by Claudio that syncs with each album, mind blowing I know), this is a song about Josephine (Coheed and Cambria's daughter) being about to have sex in a car with her boyfriend in Jersey City, but they're then assaulted by a gang and she gets raped in front of her boyfriend. As if things couldn't get any worse, she comes home only to be murdered... well, beaten to death... by her father... with a hammer.... to her head.... yeah it's very depressing but magical at the same time.. it is amazing how your mind blows when you finally understand certain words or expressions used by the band, like "hey shabutie", "House Atlantic", "Second Stage Turbine Blade", "The Crowing", "Silent Earth", and even their own logo... Totally recommended, but you will wanna puke at some moments.

[@toothco]

jemt1290 currently reading this.

[@nobiazcustomsinc5030]

yeah armory wars is ROUGH in some parts lol but i think ive drawn the keywork on just about everything i own lol

[@JustIn-op6oy]

Damn, I need to reread the comics/graphics novels. I thought that Second Stage Turbine Blade and The Color Before the Sun were the only albums that weren't part of the Amory Wars continuity. Thanks for the heads up dude.

[@JustIn-op6oy]

Related question - was The Second Stage Turbine Blade originally intended to be part of the comic arc or was it retconned to be part of the story?

[@williamdouglas7025]

@@JustIn-op6oy It was originally meant to be part of the story.

[@user-wo3ki4ej1b]

One among the fence since 05…. Time flies

[@albyrose4755]

At this point I have forced literally hundreds of people to listen to this album. They're usually down after a few tracks this being one.

[@jan-jans143]

i was 15 years old when i first heard this on yahoo music. where there is an ad in the middle of the song. the quality of recording is blurry. hahaha

[@shannonroyal-mcneil3631]

I love this band so much that if my son would have been born a girl we were gonna name her Cambria 🖤🖤🖤

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

Did you name him Claudio then?? Haha

[@Piece-Of-Time]

Name him "Writing Writer"

[@basketballadigonzalez5561]

@@Piece-Of-Timenah, Ten Speed 🚲

[@Piece-Of-Time]

@@basketballadigonzalez5561 Good Apollo

[@TheAfker]

you can tell its an old one when claudio isnt 60% majestic hair

[@theb3654]

I was literally singing this song to myself then i open KZbin and its my first suggestion.

[@rayryan6666]

Can we please get a re-upload of this where the audio track doesn't sound like it's coming thru a mattress?... Please?

[@stephanievogelei163]

😂

[@-Gax-]

Apparently not..

[@basketballadigonzalez5561]

But it sounds so good

[@FacelessDenizen]

still listening in 2023. don't let them scare you...

[@carlyncook1211]

If there is anybody out there that remembers Ben Coffey, tip a glass. RJ, you got the same tattoo the same day. That was y'all THING. Speak up, its been 13 years on new years eve

[@justinwimmer5398]

Finally on youtube! Sweet!

[@derekmetante8346]

Absolute banger

[@THEREALREDBARON1]

Pound-for-pound?? Coheed might be the greatest band ever created. Hands-down. 😉

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

Love coheed!🤘

[@BirdOfHermes2113]

I was 32 years old when I learned that Nyack was in New York not New Jersey. 20 years. You know how many people I said, "Oh yeah my favorite band is from Jersey" to? probably partially because of this song. tf

[@JKDVIPER]

Wow. This one bangs. LONG WAY DOWN from GOO GOO DOLLS feels like an influence. SUPERB PUNK METAL. ❤😮

[@erikmuniz199]

Claudio's hair is unreal. The best hair in metal.

[@argetect2847]

Metal? I got bad news for ya my friend.

[@RoguePlanetSounds]

@@argetect2847 Oh, c'mon. We can all agree they're post-hardcore/prog-rock or whatever you wanna call it but they're are definitely elements of metal sprinkled throughout some of their songs. Mainly their later albums though.

[@Marionettetc]

"Metal" lol

[@metalmaniacx79]

Dude go listen to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Saxon and then come back lol.

[@hawtpawket]

Just started reading The Armory Wars and i'm already like, "Poor sweet Josephine" :'(

[@stacy8191]

My heart hurts when I watch this.

[@Marionettetc]

A c&c fan that actually listened to the lyrics! I'm shocked honestly how man teeny boppers sing along with this gross ass song

[@ianprescott669]

Quite a throwback. Wow

[@Swa_g_g_y]

took 10 years to publish this on youtube? oh well can't complain, still awesome. :)

[@Dwickeh]

way longer than that lol

[@movebydesire113]

I remember only me hear their song in my school, i feel im the coolest person ever

[@Nicodegalloyo]

Down the street the corner boys FUCK SHIT UPPPP!!!!

[@edveda2233]

2002 claudio is bae.

[@jacobhill8568]

Lorddddd forgive meeeeee

[@helmhamburgerhand]

They need to make a movie out of these albums. Can use Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Oded Fehr...

[@Schrodingers-Fat]

Mark Wahlberg has been looking into securing the rights. Seriously.

[@gushido84]

Awesome

[@badmanjones179]

....you got a better quality upload for the official upload orr

[@anahyestefaninunezadrianze1806]

[@lilzachytwotimeabihh]

SONG GOES SO FUCKING HARD

[@betweentwotemples]

GODLIKE

[@macgyverdroid]

2020

[@melaniesoares7748]

ausome!!!

[@necrodamus5481]

Itd be great if the Amory Wars got a proper live action or animated netflix or amazon prime series. I thought of movie but i couldnt help see that as a Tommy style rock opera

[@louieartjao9385]

nice claudio

[@johnholmes8994]

2022 if you're here you too are a child of the fence!

[@alexkelly2606]

Why is it everywhere I find this audio it's muffled? ]:

[@SchnellVITALVINYLVLOG]

Saw them at the FU Church in 03

[@intactGB]

I like how the video was released in 2015, but the quality is 2005

[@kenyahiguchi7707]

intactGB you realize how old the song is right? They probably filmed the video awhile ago and just uploaded it a year ago

[@coltsfanmurf]

the video has been around over 10 years, this one here was uploaded in 15

[@Fuvail]

intactGB lol this video is over 10 years old and it's been on KZbin for awhile to but this is a re upload

[@gagebowser8698]

you poor soul... look how short his hair is lmao. this is old

[@nobiazcustomsinc5030]

this video is over a decade old. quality was actually pretty good back then.....look at his hair lol

[@Stevie1996]

i wish that this band would bring back their screams & not make them back round screams

[@jan-jans143]

how old is this kid now?

[@marlonvilha]

YEAHHH

[@ericksonvasco3500]

thanks youtube algorithm

[@joejerrell2142]

Holy shit balls Claudio and the guy look like they were 16 in this video

[@jordanq9257]

Love you Coheed x

[@thegreatcornholio343]

I know for a fact that everyone when they first listened to coheed and cambria they thought it was a woman.

[@theycallme_sta_cey]

Michael, why did you have to hold up a Walgreens?

[@Schrodingers-Fat]

Opioids turn the best men into shells.

[@crischepalic]

Sopa Nissin 😏

[@dsc_dsc]

Noooo it's censored, FUCK SHIT UP!!!!!

[@Zerklass]

+tuertodsc Lets fire it up!

[@lunchboxandthemastersofthe5982]

I didn't know about Coheed when this came out didn't get into them until Welcome Home. It's funny to see his hair compared to how HIGE it is today lol

[@S0phisticatedZ0mbie]

Why have i never seen this video

[@TDWP53]

This song's story is really fucked up.

[@patsucks8765]

Most of coheeds songs are

[@TDWP53]

Bonskatesurf It makes me love Claudio just a little bit more :0

[@lanceroberts7548]

Josephine got it rough for sure

[@B.A.R69420]

What is it?

[@Akron162]

A girl named Josephine gets gang raped and then is murdered with a hammer by her own father for unrelated reasons. All in the same night. Lovely story...

[@rena10009]

0:26 she about to be told about the aliens

[@xvaughanx]

Anybody know directed this video? Looks very Shane C Drake

[@esmoratheexplorer8250]

You don't have the country banjo version?

[@rush211289]

Can’t believe they censored fuck sheeeet uuuuup. You can barely tell what he’s saying! See, you didn’t even notice he was saying that.

[@68skot]

The audio is really bad in this video. Awesome song though.

[@invadermarshall6351]

Such a fucking banger

[@dekaorange3269]

What the hell is up with the audio?