Coheed and Cambria are experimental emo... it seems that the emo, scene, and that general direction has merged with the "intellectual" outlook, in that electro, IDM, experimental, and other similar intellectualist mishmash has barged it's way in, in a creative outburst, and been latched onto with permanent grip. Seems the kids like that sort of thing.
Reason why I bring up electro and IDM is that they're part of experimental movements, and they're associated with intelligence, and quite intellectual people. There's a whole aesthetic going on with it, quite unfortunate really because there's some good stuff lurking in there, and the snobbery is something that just surrounds it and makes a nuisance of itself. But it's there.
This snobbish, aesthetic of intellectuals, has become part of what it is to be emo at the moment... it's very "scene" to like experimental, and weird indy stuff. Coheed and Cambria is basically just a really accessible version of that.
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