100 Songs that Define Heavy Metal

Coheed and Cambria - "Welcome Home"

100 Songs that Define Heavy Metal

Show Notes

SONG - Coheed and Cambria "Welcome Home"

Release Date - September 20, 2005

Metal Blade Records CEO Brian Slagel talks to Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria about their song "Welcome Home", his writing process, his career, the other forms of media he uses for storytelling and much more.

Ryan Williams also discusses the production of the song with Brian and author Martin Popoff shares a wealth of information about the song.

You can watch the entire unedited version of the interview HERE:

https://youtu.be/oAbDnzxxpNk

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