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which still torment him six years later. He is even called to directly in this line: “Jesse! Just come look at what your brother did.” “Jesse” is the name given to Inferno within the false memories of Coheed. There is no sequential time structure and the audience is pulled through space and time along multiple threads and find the Supreme Tri-Mage pulling the strings. It is as if Inferno is within a bad dream, mind and heart racing, bouncing from scene to scene, slow and haunting, and upon awakening can only say, This happened and then that happened. Oh yeah, and that also happened — just trying to retell the events of an awful nightmare to an ear trying to keep up. It’s the way Claudio Sanchez sings out the two lines beginning with “Stay until Wednesday” in a childish voice and that simple “and” at “And she screamed, Claudio!” which compel me to draw out this feeling. The track begins with the beating of the drum, providing the pulse of anticipation and fear throughout the song, which is transformed and intensified by an electric guitar starting in the first stanza, and the listener can hear a door creak open and close. This door can be the one that takes us into the Kilgannon home, to the horror of slaughtered children, a home still leaking with gasoline and the murder of men unable to set this house ablaze; this door offers us a glimpse into the monstrous will of Heaven Fence’s ruler, and the slow whisper of “Wait for” is chilling as it sends shivers down the spine, letting us know that this is a haunting tale. “Everything Evil” is one of the most important songs in the Amory Wars saga, as it can, in just a few minutes, remind us of how we have come to this point, at any point in the story.
Lakisha Dupree
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