“Welcome Home” by Coheed and Cambria

"Welcome Home" was the first single from Coheed and Cambria's Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, sitting third on the album and released by Columbia on September 20, 2005. Bandleader Claudio Sanchez wrote the words, and he has said the song is about the hostility between the Writer and Miss Erica Court, two characters in his Amory Wars story. The band produced it with Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner, David Bottrill mixed, and a string section, violins, viola and Tomas Ulrich's cello, darkens the storm.

It reached 24 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and a 7-inch backed with a live "The Crowing" was sold with the album. It later became a playable track in Rock Band, rode the Xbox 360 soundtrack of Madden NFL 06, served as the theme for NXT from June 2012 to February 2014 and turned up in the trailers and soundtrack for the animated film 9.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.