Some bands piece together a single elaborate concept album and consider themselves daring musical adventurers exploring uncharted territory. Compared to Coheed And Cambria, they’re package tourists tucking into the conceptual version of egg and chips. This is a band who have forged a concept career, with an ongoing sci-fi storyline now spanning nine of their ten studio albums and a slew of comics and books. Hells, this tenth outing is just the second part of a new five-part arc and the deluxe version comes with its own illustrated novella. Long-term fans can immerse themselves where Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures left off, following the footsteps of interplanetary fugitives Nia and Nostrand and their child Vaxis. You don’t have to take a crash co...