The Second Stage Turbine Blade is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria.

It was re-released on September 20, 2005, and included three previously unreleased bonus tracks.

[10] This album is one of five Coheed and Cambria albums (the others being Year of the Black Rainbow, Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures, Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind, and the non-conceptual The Color Before the Sun) not to have a multi-part suite, as In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 had the "Camper Velourium" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness had the "Willing Well" series, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow had the "End Complete" series, The Afterman: Ascension and Descension albums had the "Key Entity Extraction" series, and Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe had the "Continuum" series.

All lyrics are written by Claudio Sanchez; all music is composed by Coheed and CambriaNote: On the standard ten-track edition, the hidden track "IRO-Bot" is contained in "God Send Conspirator"; however, on the deluxe edition, it is contained in the "Everything Evil" demo.

Written by Claudio Sanchez and illustrated by Wes Abbot, the comics tell the story of Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon, a married couple who become unwittingly involved in interplanetary intrigue.