Career
He is the creator of the comic book series The Amory Wars, as well as Key of Z and Kill Audio, both co-written with wife Chondra Echert. Sanchez co-authored the novel Year of the Black Rainbow with Peter David. Sanchez primarily provides lead vocals and guitar in Coheed and Cambria.
However, he has also used theremins, synthesizers and harmonicas in his side projects.
Early in his career, Sanchez first performed with several different bands, all of which lasted a short period of time. After breaking up with "Beautiful Loser", Sanchez went on a trip to Paris, where he began writing a story, initially referred to as "The Bag.On.Line Adventures of Coheed and Cambria", named after a store near where Sanchez stayed whilst in Paris.
Two characters named Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon live in a fictional foreign galaxy known as Heaven"s Fence. Sanchez was the lead singer and guitarist for Shabutie, which formed in Nyack, New York, in 1995.
Shabutie released several EPs and wrote several songs which would eventually be released on The Second Stage Turbine Blade.
The band broke after Nate Kelley walked out on a performance, but was later reformed with Josh Eppard replacing Nate Kelly on drums. This new band was dubbed Coheed and Cambria, named after the characters Sanchez had written about in Paris. Sanchez began producing comic books in 2000, beginning with The Bag.On.Line Adventures.
The Bag.On.Line Adventures lasted two issues due to problems with the artist, deadlines and financial issues.
Sanchez"s next project was the graphic novel Good Apollo, I"m Burning Star IV Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. The graphic novel was released alongside the album of the same name, however Sanchez has stated that the novel was incomplete due to financial issues.
Sanchez began anew in 2008 with the series The Amory Wars, which chronicles events album by album. The Second Stage Turbine Blade was covered in two five-part comic book limited series.
Alongside Peter David, Sanchez co-wrote the novel The Amory Wars: Year of the Black Rainbow, chronicling the events of the Year of the Black Rainbow album.
Sanchez also released a twelve issue comic book series adapting In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 under the Amory Wars name. A forthcoming adaptation of the Good Apollo 1 storyline was foreshadowed at the end of the twelfth issue. The story focuses on The Blood Machine, a vicious contraption that murders its victims and takes their souls.