Metascore
73 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Finally, Coheed have made an album worthy of repeat listens, rather than a monster you skim through to hit the interesting parts. [Nov 2005, p.218]
  2. C&C's music factory comes across as a unique, modern perspective of both rock's past and present.
  3. 80
    [A] dense, inventive disc. [Oct 2005, p.134]
  4. Conceptual plots aside, this is an album that finally lives up to the heavy metal promise and unapologetically delivers the goods with a full head of steam.
  5. Insane, but in a good way. [Nov 2005, p.123]
  6. 60
    Stupendously silly but... indisputably proficient. [Nov 2005, p.103]
  7. Next time, Coheed could do with less prog and more rock.
  8. While the overlong album sometimes threatens to bury C&C with its own excess, the craftsmanship suggests the band is more than capable of breaking into the mainstream. [24 Sep 2005]
  9. Decent and decadent, Good Apollo is still ultimately the least of the band's 3 full lengths. It continues the band's tradition for experimentation, with melodies breaking through the chaos but it is less successful and equally disappointing with no new tricks.
  10. Bleak and despairing... gloomy and numbing. [23 Sep 2005, p.86]
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 85 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 58
  2. Negative: 4 out of 58
  1. A bit of weak drum parts, but enough great tunes and guitar chords and riffs that are different enough to pick out yet fit within the same style that accompanies the album. Full Review »
  2. I liked the album a lot and imo it was some of Coheed and Cambria's best work. Quite a few good tracks on the album but also quite a few bad ones as well. Still worth the listen though. Full Review »
  3. Pretty good album. I liked most of the tracks on it but like all albums it does have its bad ones. I would say its one of their best albums. Though it could have done with that lame bonus track added onto the last song. Full Review »