Coheed and Cambria play the Aztec Theatre on Wednesday, July 29 — a roughly 1,500-capacity theater date in San Antonio that reads as the right room for this cycle. Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe is out, the pentalogy is still in progress, and this isn’t a shed routing. It’s a theater run, which means you’re close enough to actually hear the record.
About Coheed and Cambria
Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe landed March 14, 2025 on Evil Ink Records — the third installment in frontman Claudio Sanchez’s five-album science fiction saga, The Amory Wars. Act I arrived in 2018, Act II in 2022. Act III is more personal than its predecessors: Sanchez writing about an addicted father, a beloved grandfather, and the anxiety of raising a child. The Amory Wars universe has always been a vehicle for something real. On this record, that relationship gets harder to ignore.
The band formed in Nyack, New York. Sanchez handles vocals, guitar, and keys; Travis Stever on guitar, Josh Eppard on drums and keyboards, Zach Cooper on bass. Six of their eleven studio albums have reached the Billboard Top 10. Their live production scales to the concept — elaborate staging and lighting, high technical execution. It’s the kind of show that justifies a theater booking.
Opening Act: Narrow Head
Narrow Head open the night — a Texas band out of Dallas, now Houston-based, on Run for Cover Records. Their sound gets called “grungegaze”: chunky guitar riffs up against dreamy melodic atmospheres, with Deftones and My Bloody Valentine in the DNA. Their 2023 album Moments of Clarity caught wider critical attention. A Texas band supporting a San Antonio theater date — the pairing makes geographic and sonic sense.
About the Aztec Theatre
The Aztec Theatre at 104 N St. Mary’s Street is a San Antonio landmark: a 1926 movie palace restored and reopened as a live music venue in 2009. Three levels — orchestra floor (standing pit), mezzanine, and balcony — give the room enough vertical architecture that the experience varies depending on where you land. Live Nation operates the space, steps from the River Walk. The building does something for a concert that a flat-floor club or a shed doesn’t.
Tickets
Doors open ahead of a 7:00 PM start. Tickets are on sale now with orchestra floor, mezzanine, and balcony options, plus premium packages. This is a return date for Coheed and Cambria in San Antonio — their last show here was approximately two years ago.