In 2011, Warner Bros. and WaterTower Music put collectively a compilation album for Rocksteady’s open-world superhero sport Batman: Arkham Metropolis. The album featured some fairly large names like Panic! on the Disco, Blaqk Audio, and Serj Tankian, all contributing unique songs meant to pay tribute to the caped crusader. Amongst them was progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria, whose track “Deranged” was one of many promotional tracks for the file. These days, the album has been faraway from most streaming platforms, and you may solely discover remnants of it in fan-uploaded tracks on locations like Spotify. However right this moment, Coheed and Cambria re-released “Deranged,” and a small piece of Batman historical past is again on streaming companies the place the band can reap the advantages.
Coheed is re-releasing “Deranged” alongside a brand new track titled “The Joke.” Based on the vinyl single’s retailer web page, “The Joke” isn’t a track from the band’s upcoming album, however is extra of a “bridge” between its most up-to-date one, “Vaxis II: The Window of the Waking Thoughts,” and its subsequent. The band says the one felt higher paired with a re-release of “Deranged,” and given the track’s themes of creating a “joke” of somebody, the parallels are fairly obvious. The band even makes a fairly overt tribute to The Joker within the track’s music video, which contains a Joker-like character plaguing the thoughts of Al the Killer, a personality from the Amory Wars story informed within the band’s albums.
Admittedly, “Deranged” has by no means been my favourite Coheed track, nevertheless it’s good to see a minimum of one track from the Batman: Arkham Metropolis album discover its manner again onto streaming companies beneath Coheed’s label, the place the band could make a number of cents. “The Joke,” in the meantime, is so groovy that I already know I’m gonna have it on repeat all day. Zach Cooper killing it on the bass with this one.
The Batman: Arkham collection hasn’t had a correct motion sport since 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight, however Camouflaj is making a brand new VR sport set within the universe referred to as Batman: Arkham Shadow, which shall be coming to Meta Quest 3 later this 12 months. There’s additionally Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which, uh, your mileage could range.
