"Welcome Home" | ||||
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Single by Coheed and Cambria | ||||
from the album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | ||||
Released | September 20, 2005 | |||
Format | CD | |||
Recorded | 2005 | |||
Genre | Progressive metal | |||
Length |
6:15 4:29 (radio edit) |
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Label | Columbia, Equal Vision | |||
Producer(s) | Michael Birnbaum, Chris Bittner, Coheed and Cambria | |||
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"Welcome Home" is a song by progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria, released on September 20, 2005 through Columbia Records. It is the third track on the album, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. The song was the first single on the album and was made into a music video. The song tells of the hostility in The Writer and Miss Erica Court's relationship in The Amory Wars, according to bandleader Claudio Sanchez. It reached #24 on the Mainstream Rock chart. A 7" version backed by a live-version of "The Crowing" and sold with the album.
The song was featured as a playable track in the game Rock Band, as well as the soundtrack of the Xbox 360 version of Madden NFL 06. It was also the official theme of the re-branded version of WWE NXT between June 2012 and February 2014.
In 2007, this song was included in the Harmonix music video game Rock Band, exposing Coheed and Cambria to a considerably wider audience. However, the words "whore" and "fucking" were edited to "wolf" and "mucking" respectively. The conclusion of the song was also edited, replacing the fade-out and the strings with a short guitar solo as the player earns the ending bonus points.
An instrumental version of the song was used in the trailer and soundtrack for the movie 9. It is used in the promo ad for the TV channel Versus. It is frequently used as "bumper music" in Sirius XM Holdings program The Howard Stern Wrap-Up Show on Howard 100/101.