The Afterman: Ascension is the sixth studio album by progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the first part of a double album, the second part of which is The Afterman: Descension. The band took seven months to record the album between 2011 and 2012, released a live acoustic version of "Sentry the Defiant" in February 2012, and announced a release date of October 9 later that year. The first single released was "Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute". It is the first Coheed and Cambria album since 2005's Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Read more on Last.fm.
As Coheed is wont to do, they let the utter cheesiness of their efforts overshadow the album’s ability to be enjoyed at times. Overall, though, they continue to produce great prog-rock (in the most traditional sense), and even return to a more apt production “sound” this time around.