Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness by Coheed and Cambria

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, Coheed and Cambria's third album, arrived on September 20, 2005, through Equal Vision and Columbia, their first major-label release. It's the third chapter of Claudio Sanchez's four-part Amory Wars saga, and this time the story is told through the Writer, the author inside the tale whose own demons bend the plot as it goes, with a graphic novel released the same day.

The music is as outsized as the title: prog-rock ambition, metal crunch and emo heart all at once, Sanchez's voice riding over twin guitars with Travis Stever. It was the last studio album with drummer Josh Eppard before his first departure, with Michael Todd on bass. "Welcome Home" was the first single, a galloping monster later heard in Rock Band, followed by "The Suffering", the catchiest thing they'd done.

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