By calling them pretentious you yourself are falling into that category.

There's nothing pretentious about them. Coldplay are pretentious, Madonna, U2, Metallica.

Understand the word before using it. They are a great band & even better live. Their albums are story based...but who cares? I don't try & understand it album by album, I just listen & like the music. They format their albums that way because it's the way they want to format it. Not to appear superior to anyone. It just links to their comic books, that's who Coheed & Cambria are, 2 comic book characters. The hint was in the name.