I'm an unabashed Coheed fan. I have been for more than a decade, before I even showed up at WRRV. With the success their new songs are having and how huge their WRRV Sessions was, I thought it would be a good idea to share my top 5 Coheed tracks, and see what you guys liked as well.

Honorable Mention: Here We Are Juggernaut

This song is a thumper. It's dark and a little scary. It sounds like Claudio is daring something bigger and badder to come at him. Totally underappreciated, if you ask me.

Number 5: Atlas

Totally new entry, but it blew me away when I listened to the new album, "The Color Before The Sun." Yes, I really enjoy You're Got Spirit, Kid and Here To Mars, but Atlas has something I'm not sure I've heard from Coheed before. The vocals were punchy without being screamed, and the music is freaking killer. Plus, it's a little emotional, and I can relate to the "dad" stuff lately.

Number 4: Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial)

One of the weirder titles for Coheed and Cambria, this song was off the album "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume I: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness", which is an equally bonkers (also see AWESOME) title.

There's an effect on Claudio's voice that really ratchets up the prog-rock/creepy vibe for the song. It's not necessarily a song with screaming choruses or rip-roaring guitar solos. It's just all over awesome. It's been one of my favorites since the album dropped way back in 2005.

Number 3: Delirium Trigger

THIS TRACK is what told me Coheed and Cambria were something different. The whole album "Second Stage Turbine Blade" kinda changed my perspective on music, with the clear emphasis on a thrashing sci/fi story line, but this song just stood apart. SSTB was a phenomenal album, and at first I loved "Devil in Jersey City", but there's something chilling and haunting, while being completely ominous, about this song. Describing this creeping terror and then just adding that "Hello?" to the lyrics.

Phenomenal

Number 2: A Favor House Atlantic

This song is so good, it's obviously in the hard rock/prog/alt category, but it could pass for a pop song. It's what SHOULD be in the #1 spot if there wasn't a complete show stopper ahead of it.

Number 1: Welcome Home

"You stormed off to scar the armada...."

People overuse the word epic these days. Ice cream can't really be epic. A burrito isn't epic. If you check out Dictionary.com, epic is defined as "noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style", and "heroic; majestic; impressively great:".

Welcome Home is epic, in both styles of the word.

It is the song that can be the opener or closer of a show, and works great as both. The opening acoustic riff, the chugging of the pre-verse with the symphonic background. The thudding of the guitars and bass as the verse slams along, the drums pounding in the background. The chorus that dips a little bit before crashing back into the verses again. The guitar solos, followed by the choral singing at the end of the song.

Just plain ridiculous.

A story about betrayal and retribution and revenge. All housed within the original Coheed and Cambria storyline.

It's #1, and the competition isn't even close.

More From WRRV-WRRB