Each of Coheed and Cambria’s studio albums (with the exception of 2015’s The Color Before the Sun) tells a chapter in the saga originally narrated by Sanchez’s lyrics. The band also makes use of recurring melodies, self-referencing musical and lyrical cues in certain songs that reference key moments in "The Amory Wars" mythology. Some individual songs on these albums (e.g., "The Crowing", "Everything Evil", "Three Evils") use a particular song structure known as "terminally climactic form" in order to depict a particularly violent action from the story.