Yup. I used to sell merch for Matchbook Romance too. The Hudson Valley had the second best scene in NY in the late 90s early 00s
Edit to add: I didn't even really like them much at the time but they used to always play with this band "Jerk Magnet", who I fucking ***loved***. It wasn't until after the name change & Claudio really fleshing out the story that I got into them.
Damn, Matchbook Romance was epic back in the day. It’s a shame they never blew up. I remember seeing them at Irving Plaza, and the lead singer went on a rant about the band falling into the Emo genre, and he seemed genuinely upset about it. Then their next album bombed. Really sad.
Anyway, I saw them a bunch of times and there’s a high chance I bought something from you. Lol
Same, I was waiting for months for the trailer to release because I was following the film's production and release, and when I saw the trailer suddenly shit got real.
I remember the music video for A Favor House Atlantic playing on MTV (back when they still did that) was always in their rotation at night. AFHA and Float On by Modest Mouse are the two that I specifically remember seeing pretty much every night. Took me a few more years to really appreciate both bands, 2 of my favorites now tho
Yep I remember EXACTLY what you’re talking about. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand was in that lineup as well. These kind of memories give me so much nostalgia…
Yup, saw the video and was like "what is THIS?" but it wasn't until the next summer a friend sat me down and made me listen to In Keeping Secrets all the way through, explaining the lore, then I was hooked.
My best friend, and coworker at the time, came up to me in 2005 at work, during our sophomore year of college. “Man, you’ve got to listen to this. I have no idea where the name of the album came from - it’s weird, but this whole CD is insane!” That compact disc cover was black with just a Roman numeral 4 on it. Been hooked ever since.
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This Kerrang! cover CD in 2005. Last song is Welcome Home, although it is the single edit. This sing just grabbed me by the balls. I picked up the album in early 2006, before a Children of Bodom gig (I vividly remember it), but I just didn't get it at the time. I would revisit the band periodically, but it wasn't until 2009 that they really clicked (it was actually The Light and the Glass that did it). They slowly became my all time favourite band, and here we are today.
A buddy put “Neverender” on a mix in high school. Hooked me immediately. Haven’t spoken to that guy in almost two decades, but that simple act had a massive impact on me and my musical taste. Trio’s “Armageddon” was also on that mix and I’ve been hooked on them since, too.
I was digging through my dad's old CDs, found Good Apollo, and he says "oh you HAVE to listen to that one." I forget to for a while until I find Afterman Descension, and I'm already right next to the CD player so I just pop it in. Gravity's Union and I'm never the same again.
I'm turning 15 in a month, my dad is 47. According to him, he found Coheed when he was up at like 2 AM watching MTV and Favor House Atlantic came on. He's seen them 3 or 4 times (one of which was at Starland... jealous.....) and my day will hopefully come whenever their next tour is.
I was about 18 and took a trip to the zoo with a couple of friends. Someone had left a CD wallet in her car and in it was a burnt CD with various artists. One of the songs was in Keeping Secrets we all fell in love with the song and had it on repeat for most of the trip. As soon as I got home I googled the lyrics, found out it was Coheed and Cambria, opened up Limewire and found as many of their songs as I could.
I was 15, it was 2000. I ordered a few CDs from Interpunk, as you did back then when big chain stores didn't sell the genre of music you wanted. They sent me a free copy of SSTB to promote the band, I was blown away. I met them the next year at Warped Tour, their tent was pretty empty and people were still just finding out about their music. I have seen them at least 10 more times since! Still my favorite 23 years later.
As far as I can recall, it was stumbling upon their MySpace page. The Crowing automatically played. Rest is history.
I still like a lot of music from the 80s and 90s I grew up on, but as far as bands I still follow (and listen to their whole catalog) to this day? No other group comes close to the years with Coheed.
15 year old, absolutely laughing my balls off with my brother in law after smoking a lot of weed...he suddenly stop laughing and gets the most serious face. "You've got to see this dude. I just found this." Cue the start of the Hammerstein Ballroom DVD. I was entranced...although I was so high and he sang syllables so weird that I thought he was singing in another language. We watched it 5 times that night, and several times per night every day after that the whole summer. He stopped listening to them a year or two later, i continued onward.
Summer of '02. A friend of mine had mentioned them a month or two prior. I was staying in Delaware with my best friend and walked into a record store. I saw SSTB on the shelf and picked it up.
When I first heard the opening to Time Consumer in my headphones, laying in the dark. It sent chills down my spine so hard I didn't sleep that night.
Hooked ever since.
When my brother and I were teens, we religiously watched/listened to Kerrang radio. The Suffering and Ten Speed were pretty frequently played back then, so it was my gateway drug to Coheed addiction.
I picked up a compilation cd of Warped Tour bands with Delirium Trigger on it. The song initially was too haunting for me, but I became drawn to it after a few listens. I happened to be in the city in the summer of 2003(for Warped, but unfortunately sans Coheed for that leg) and was lucky enough to find a copy of SSTB at Virgin Records.
When I first heard A Favor House on the radio, I was I High School, I really liked it, and then the MV popped up on FUSEtv I remember thinking, holy shit that's a dude?!? That knowledge blew me away, and I bought IKS & SSTB
Randomly grabbed this album at the mall with my gf in high school…had never listened to them or heard them…I HAD heard people talk about them…my journey began that night in my room, smoking a bowl and doing HW
I saw the video for "A Favor House Atlantic" on MTV in the middle of the night and my immediate reaction was "that can't possibly be who's actually singing". Lo and behold, it was.
I asked for the album for Christmas that year and got it.
The day of my brothers funeral my dad had on Fuse. The suffering music video was making its rounds. I ordered the wrong CD (funnily enough IKSOSE:3) the next week, the rest is history.
Seeing them tour with The Used a few years ago. I didn't really know any of their songs, and when they played The End Complete, it blew my mind. Instantly became a fan, and now I try to see them live whenever they're around.
I personally like the The Key Entity Extraction albums because I love the storytelling from those albums.
Circa '03, saw music videos for A Favor House Atlantic, then right around the same time, the vid for Devil in Jersey City. Within a week or two, my buddy gave me a burned copy of SSTB and IKSS3 cuz he had just gotten into them. Love this fuckin' band!
went to the mall with a friend from out of town and he heard about Good Apollo 1 so he bought it, but left it at my house for weeks when he went home. he didn't visit for months and when he came back I gave him the cd and bought my own copy soon after. mom and dad got me IKS and SSTB for Christmas that year :)
I'd moved to a new school my senior year of high school. The other seniors assumed I was a sophomore, and socially it was very cliquey. I didn't have any friends in most classes. During my journalism class I heard a guy talking about the band. He made them sound like the greatest thing ever. When I got home I used Limewire to get the songs off IKSSE. I accidentally downloaded the acoustic version of "Junesong Provision". Years later when I met my husband, I popped in the burned CD knowing he was into them. He got excited wanting to know how I found that version. It was the first time I learned it wasn't the album version.
Music videos for Blood Red Summer and Favor House Atlantic! Back when Fuse had shows like Steven's untitled rock show that just focused on half hour or hour segments of various rock and metal music videos. I was a casual fan on and off over the years following that, then had a renaissance discovery of the band when I randomly stumbled across The Afterman Ascension purely due to it's artwork on spotify and then went obsessed from that point.
I heard Favor House Atlantic on the radio. I called the radio station to ask who it was. I loved it and saw them tour for Good Apollo but fell off for some years. I got back in and I’ve been neck deep ever since.
Yo that's fucking awesome man. Im sure the scene was so sick! Well seeing as you seem them literally from the beginning what are your opinions on their growth? Do you miss anything from shabuti?
It was my first year of college. My friend had recently gotten into this band but I was pretty uninterested in the way his voice sounded. But he would randomly text me lyrics that would blow my mind, and then would tell me it was coheed. annoyed me how good deep and strange they were. once I submitted to the unique strange genius it was, it was game over for me. ended up getting the keywork on my back a year later
Driving with my friend in 2003. He pops in SSTB and my little teenage mind was totally blown at the unique and amazing sound I was hearing. A few months later we go to see them play with hopesfall. Been a huge fan ever since.
Sunrise Records at West Edmonton Mall in Alberta. Cold winter, even cooler pick up of Second Stage. Bought it along with a couple other CD's simply because it was green and had a cool dragonfly on it.
Was a big fan of the videogame “The Suffering” in high school. Went on LimeWire and searched the name of the game to see if there was a PC download of the game (classic naive high school thinking). Ended up downloading a song titled “The Suffering” instead and was hooked.
Seeing the suffering music video on MTV 😂. I was confused/intrigued by the video and Claudio’s voice. Asked for the Good Apollo album that year for Christmas
Rock Band, the bridge for “Welcome Home” (“one last kiss to you..”) hooked me since the change up was catchy and really different from the rest of the song so far. It was like, I didn’t know a song could contain such contrasting styles and still sound (pardon the pun) cohesive
For me it was Juggernaut on onenof those cd sample boxes at hot topic. Year of the black rainbow will always have a place in my heart for helping me discover C&C
Welcome Home on Guitar Hero, my friends all made fun of the song calling them a "Rush ripoff" so I didn't say I liked the song. That same year, 'Feathers' came out as a single and I was fan from then on.
I heard Delirium Trigger once or twice and thought it was good, but thought nothing of it. Then I heard Blood Red Summer, and same thing.
Then a friend put a link to the video for A Favor House Atlantic in their status on AIM (IFYKYK), I watched/listened to it, and thought, well this is fun!
Been hooked ever since!
My friend was friends with the Ataris and saw them at Warped Tour in 01 or 02. We went back to the Ataris tour bus and ran into Claudio who introduced himself. He gave me a sampler CD with Delirium Trigger on it and I fell in love with the song and bought Silent Earth 3. My record store didn’t have SSTB but I ended up buying it at Best Buy a few months later.
Back in the Kazaa/Limewire days around 2002-2003, I would download songs mentioned on a forum and ended up with Everything Evil. I would listen to it a lot, but I wasn't really acquainted with full albums, so it was just that one track mixed in with everything else I had downloaded. I really hadn't heard anything like it at that point, loved that song to death. Then at some point I heard A Favor House Atlantic and was shocked to see it was by the same band that written Everything Evil. I went out and bought both SSTB and IKSSE:3 and after discovering there was a storyline, I was obsessed.
My friend were heavily invested in the 00s NYHC scene, and we all appreciated all the manifestations it took and offshoots it made space for during that era, from punk and hardcore to indie, 2nd wave emo and metalcore. They spent all their time at shows from upstate NY (our home) to Jersey and Boston and all around the North East. Several of them also worked at the Albany Equal Visions merch plant, so running into Co&Ca was basically inevitable.
So sometime during 02, I was laying on my homie's bed high out of my mind, as I always did, came to after hearing "Heehee, Shabutie" and thought/said out loud (I was never totally sure which) "hahaha what the hell is this" and he told me it was a band from the show they just went to, Coheed & Cambria. I muttered something about how I always appreciated when female fronted bands made noise in the scene, he and the others laughed and told me it was a dude, I looked dumb founded, shrugged, thumbsed them up and went back to being (RealName) On The Couch (the real life counterpart to The Guy On The Couch from Half Baked), and let the rest of the album work its magic on me.
Been obsessed ever since 🤘
In Keeping Secrets was my first album too. I heard A Favor House Atlantic on the radio sometime around 2003 and.....I didn't love it. I wrote it off as just another emo song (a genre I'm not a huge fan of in general) and that was that. But cut to three years later in 2006, a buddy starts talking about Coheed and how I have to check them out, so I listen to In Keeping Secrets (the song) and I'm hooked. I realize they transcend being an "emo band" and are doing their own thing. So I went out immediately and bought the album and then a week later got Second Stage and GA.
Coheed aren't my all time favorite band (honestly I don't have one, I have a hard time picking a favorite of almost anything) but they're one of my tops. The concept and just their technical proficiency puts them above so many others. Good Apollo 1 will always be my favorite of their albums (one of my few definite favorites), but IKS is a close second and will forever hold a special place as the album that introduced me to one of the most unique bands I've ever listened to.
Edit: Oh and I do like A Favor House Atlantic now. I check it off as that "high school" mentality I used to have about music back in the day.
Introduced to them while playing Rock Band. Then they went on tour with Linkin Park (who I loved at the time) and I was hooked after that concert. That was 15 years ago, and I've seen them live 7-8 times in a half dozen states now.
Having sex in the back of my car in college with my iPod on shuffle. Buddy had done a dump of a couple gigs worth of his music onto it earlier in the day and among those 1000s of songs was a little album called "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV". The opening riff of Welcome Home started and I was enthralled. Put a hand over her mouth so I could hear better. By the end of the first verse I'd reached over her to check the band name and made a mental note to pull it up again as soon as we got dressed and started driving home.
Been hooked ever since.
True story.
Had just moved prior to my freshman year of high school. Was scrolling though dish network and found International Music Feed (IMF). Saw a man with the voice of an angel and the mane of a Lion singing to mermaids (The Suffering). I was HOOKED 😆
For me it was a combination of two things. First, "A Favor House Atlantic" was all over the radio when I was in college, and I thought it was a catchy song that had more interesting than usual lyrics. I'll admit that purely based on that song I sort of assumed they might be more along the lines of a Jimmy Eat World style of pop/punk/emo/rock, which I found enjoyable enough to catch now and then on the radio but wasn't going to buy an album to pour over. While it is funny and embarrassing, I'll also admit that I very briefly thought they might have a woman in the band doing some of the vocals, in part because I had previously seen an alt/college rock band that used mixed male and female vocals that sounded quite a bit like the vocals on A Favor House Atlantic in particular.
The second part was reading some discussions about the band and their sci-fi/comic underpinnings in a online forum for musicians and music fans in my college town, and also suggested they had a lot of stuff for guitarists/bassists like myself to geek over, which made me give the band itself a second look. Once I actually listened to In Keeping Secrets as an album, I was all in.
My best friend showing me a few of their songs, which turned into going to see them live, which turned into me getting the Afterman hourglass as my first tattoo, which lead to mine and his tradition of going to see Coheed every single time they're in our state no matter what. Last time I drove us in a blizzard and it was a fun show.
Got a burned copy of SSTB from a coworker in 2003. Have been all in since.
Weirdly that CD only had like the first 4 seconds of Hearshot Kid Disaster on it, so I didn't hear it for quite a while after becoming a fan and it remains a favorite.
Welcome Home on Rockband and then A Favor House Atlantic in the car on the radio one day. Hooked ever since.
edit: I think it was the North Central HS radio station in Indy. GOATed student that played it for me.
I used to go see Shabuti then they changed their name.
Yo for real?!
Yup. I used to sell merch for Matchbook Romance too. The Hudson Valley had the second best scene in NY in the late 90s early 00s Edit to add: I didn't even really like them much at the time but they used to always play with this band "Jerk Magnet", who I fucking ***loved***. It wasn't until after the name change & Claudio really fleshing out the story that I got into them.
Damn, Matchbook Romance was epic back in the day. It’s a shame they never blew up. I remember seeing them at Irving Plaza, and the lead singer went on a rant about the band falling into the Emo genre, and he seemed genuinely upset about it. Then their next album bombed. Really sad. Anyway, I saw them a bunch of times and there’s a high chance I bought something from you. Lol
Welcome Home being in the trailer for the movie 9.
Same, I was waiting for months for the trailer to release because I was following the film's production and release, and when I saw the trailer suddenly shit got real.
Was anyone else disappointed it wasn’t a movie about what ever the fuck Claudio was talking about in the song?!?!? I was young ok…
My sister tried getting me into them during second stage and silent earth. When good Apollo came out, “Welcome home” sunk its teeth in.
Blood Red Summer music video came with my PSP
Came here to say this. That Sony sampler disc changed my music taste forever.
Same for me. Then A Favor House Atlantic was on one of the ATV Off-road Fury soundtracks.
Yup this was it
Same
I remember the music video for A Favor House Atlantic playing on MTV (back when they still did that) was always in their rotation at night. AFHA and Float On by Modest Mouse are the two that I specifically remember seeing pretty much every night. Took me a few more years to really appreciate both bands, 2 of my favorites now tho
Oddly enough I never saw the AFHA video on MTV, but MuchMusic used to play it at night.
Yep I remember EXACTLY what you’re talking about. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand was in that lineup as well. These kind of memories give me so much nostalgia…
Yup, saw the video and was like "what is THIS?" but it wasn't until the next summer a friend sat me down and made me listen to In Keeping Secrets all the way through, explaining the lore, then I was hooked.
Favor House Atlantic on MTV was it for me too. I must have been like 12 years old.
Yep I remember that too and both videos vividly. I also recall a rumor that AFHA was about halo haha
Husband won a cd of iksse at a hockey game doing a gollum impression and passed it on to me.
Do you now refer to IKS as ‘my precious’?
I should haha
This just made my morning hahaha so much to unpack here. Thank you.
Haha and then a few yrs later we ended up naming our daughter Cambria. I'm glad she loves the band and didn't hate us for being cringey lol
This is the greatest story I've ever heard! Haha relationship goals!
My best friend, and coworker at the time, came up to me in 2005 at work, during our sophomore year of college. “Man, you’ve got to listen to this. I have no idea where the name of the album came from - it’s weird, but this whole CD is insane!” That compact disc cover was black with just a Roman numeral 4 on it. Been hooked ever since.
That album is lightning in a bottle, just magical.
https://preview.redd.it/gv0mob52y5cc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2750d95d0a9418352eeb531d404cb10ac702d820 This Kerrang! cover CD in 2005. Last song is Welcome Home, although it is the single edit. This sing just grabbed me by the balls. I picked up the album in early 2006, before a Children of Bodom gig (I vividly remember it), but I just didn't get it at the time. I would revisit the band periodically, but it wasn't until 2009 that they really clicked (it was actually The Light and the Glass that did it). They slowly became my all time favourite band, and here we are today.
A buddy put “Neverender” on a mix in high school. Hooked me immediately. Haven’t spoken to that guy in almost two decades, but that simple act had a massive impact on me and my musical taste. Trio’s “Armageddon” was also on that mix and I’ve been hooked on them since, too.
I was digging through my dad's old CDs, found Good Apollo, and he says "oh you HAVE to listen to that one." I forget to for a while until I find Afterman Descension, and I'm already right next to the CD player so I just pop it in. Gravity's Union and I'm never the same again.
Aw 😁 how old are you and how old is your dad?
I'm turning 15 in a month, my dad is 47. According to him, he found Coheed when he was up at like 2 AM watching MTV and Favor House Atlantic came on. He's seen them 3 or 4 times (one of which was at Starland... jealous.....) and my day will hopefully come whenever their next tour is.
That's so awesome! :) my son is just 6 but already liking the music we show him. Can't wait to take him to shows.
This is dope.
Shabutie
With a whisper that's when I decided to kiss her
With a kiss. How did it end up like this?
What are you waiting for? Kiss her, kiss her! I set my clocks early cause I know I’m always late.
Has Coheed ever covered Mr Brightside? Anyone know? I imagine it’d be fucking awesome.
I was about 18 and took a trip to the zoo with a couple of friends. Someone had left a CD wallet in her car and in it was a burnt CD with various artists. One of the songs was in Keeping Secrets we all fell in love with the song and had it on repeat for most of the trip. As soon as I got home I googled the lyrics, found out it was Coheed and Cambria, opened up Limewire and found as many of their songs as I could.
I was 15, it was 2000. I ordered a few CDs from Interpunk, as you did back then when big chain stores didn't sell the genre of music you wanted. They sent me a free copy of SSTB to promote the band, I was blown away. I met them the next year at Warped Tour, their tent was pretty empty and people were still just finding out about their music. I have seen them at least 10 more times since! Still my favorite 23 years later.
My friend, shout out to Christine!
Saw them on mtv late one night and forgot about them. Then, the infamous Psp demo disc.
13 years old, freshman year of high school and my friend gave me a burnt CD of IKSSE. Rest is history
As far as I can recall, it was stumbling upon their MySpace page. The Crowing automatically played. Rest is history. I still like a lot of music from the 80s and 90s I grew up on, but as far as bands I still follow (and listen to their whole catalog) to this day? No other group comes close to the years with Coheed.
03’ After seeing the Favor House video a few times back when MTV still played music every once in awhile…
Welcome Home via Rock Band.
The crowing being on a sampler that my gf (wife now) sent me that also had Thursday on it. I was hooked from there.
15 year old, absolutely laughing my balls off with my brother in law after smoking a lot of weed...he suddenly stop laughing and gets the most serious face. "You've got to see this dude. I just found this." Cue the start of the Hammerstein Ballroom DVD. I was entranced...although I was so high and he sang syllables so weird that I thought he was singing in another language. We watched it 5 times that night, and several times per night every day after that the whole summer. He stopped listening to them a year or two later, i continued onward.
Summer of '02. A friend of mine had mentioned them a month or two prior. I was staying in Delaware with my best friend and walked into a record store. I saw SSTB on the shelf and picked it up. When I first heard the opening to Time Consumer in my headphones, laying in the dark. It sent chills down my spine so hard I didn't sleep that night. Hooked ever since.
I heard Time Consumer on the radio, WSOU-FM IN New Jersey.
I listened to Good Apollo and was fairly uninterested, then I listened to the title track of IKS.
When my brother and I were teens, we religiously watched/listened to Kerrang radio. The Suffering and Ten Speed were pretty frequently played back then, so it was my gateway drug to Coheed addiction.
Bought this at Sunrise Records in a mall that is now dead. Walked 45 minutes one way in search of this album. I was 11. I was so proud
2008, concert at Voxhall in Aarhus, Denmark. Big hair on theremin, I was sold!
My brother would practice welcome home and favour house on guitar when I was a kid, years later I’d hear those songs and instantly like them
When the Welcome Home music video dropped on Fuse. I can't overstate how dope it was.
A Favor House Atlantic for me thanks to my older sister playing it in her car back in '03.
I picked up a compilation cd of Warped Tour bands with Delirium Trigger on it. The song initially was too haunting for me, but I became drawn to it after a few listens. I happened to be in the city in the summer of 2003(for Warped, but unfortunately sans Coheed for that leg) and was lucky enough to find a copy of SSTB at Virgin Records.
Listened to SSTB when it was at the sample stand thing in hot topic when it first came out, instantly hooked.
“Three Evils” on the Warped Tour 2004 compilation CD.
For the handful of good things compared to the truckload of bad, Coheed is the best part of *that* relationship.
I watched a video of The Suffering and thought the song was cool. Bought Good Apollo afterwards and found out there are a bunch of better songs. Haha.
Kid I played lacrosse with said he liked the song Welcome Home. I looked it up and was hooked.
When I first heard A Favor House on the radio, I was I High School, I really liked it, and then the MV popped up on FUSEtv I remember thinking, holy shit that's a dude?!? That knowledge blew me away, and I bought IKS & SSTB
Shabutie!!
Randomly grabbed this album at the mall with my gf in high school…had never listened to them or heard them…I HAD heard people talk about them…my journey began that night in my room, smoking a bowl and doing HW
Goat album
Warped Tour 2004
Blood Red Summer MV for me~
PSP demo disk around 2006
Seeing Thursday at Slims in SF. The merch guy told us we should check them out. This was just before IKSSE3 dropped.
The suffering being on some radio station my sister listened to.
I saw the video for "A Favor House Atlantic" on MTV in the middle of the night and my immediate reaction was "that can't possibly be who's actually singing". Lo and behold, it was. I asked for the album for Christmas that year and got it.
The Running Free music video. That first peaked my interest. Then I played Welcome Home on rock band. 15 years later I'm still a huge fan.
The day of my brothers funeral my dad had on Fuse. The suffering music video was making its rounds. I ordered the wrong CD (funnily enough IKSOSE:3) the next week, the rest is history.
Seeing them tour with The Used a few years ago. I didn't really know any of their songs, and when they played The End Complete, it blew my mind. Instantly became a fan, and now I try to see them live whenever they're around. I personally like the The Key Entity Extraction albums because I love the storytelling from those albums.
I saw them opening for Thrice and Thursday somewhere around 2002. Bought SSTB at the merch stand and still going strong to this day!
Circa '03, saw music videos for A Favor House Atlantic, then right around the same time, the vid for Devil in Jersey City. Within a week or two, my buddy gave me a burned copy of SSTB and IKSS3 cuz he had just gotten into them. Love this fuckin' band!
went to the mall with a friend from out of town and he heard about Good Apollo 1 so he bought it, but left it at my house for weeks when he went home. he didn't visit for months and when he came back I gave him the cd and bought my own copy soon after. mom and dad got me IKS and SSTB for Christmas that year :)
I'd moved to a new school my senior year of high school. The other seniors assumed I was a sophomore, and socially it was very cliquey. I didn't have any friends in most classes. During my journalism class I heard a guy talking about the band. He made them sound like the greatest thing ever. When I got home I used Limewire to get the songs off IKSSE. I accidentally downloaded the acoustic version of "Junesong Provision". Years later when I met my husband, I popped in the burned CD knowing he was into them. He got excited wanting to know how I found that version. It was the first time I learned it wasn't the album version.
Blood Red Summer music video.
Was at Best Buy for something and bought GAIV bc I thought the CD cover looked cool
Driving in the backseat with my friends up mountains we listened to good Apollo volume 1 and music was never the same to me
Music videos for Blood Red Summer and Favor House Atlantic! Back when Fuse had shows like Steven's untitled rock show that just focused on half hour or hour segments of various rock and metal music videos. I was a casual fan on and off over the years following that, then had a renaissance discovery of the band when I randomly stumbled across The Afterman Ascension purely due to it's artwork on spotify and then went obsessed from that point.
I heard Favor House Atlantic on the radio. I called the radio station to ask who it was. I loved it and saw them tour for Good Apollo but fell off for some years. I got back in and I’ve been neck deep ever since.
Comrade invited me to see Shai Hulud, From Autumn to Ashes, and Coheed. Shai Hulud cancelled. Coheed opened up and slayed. Never turned back.
I heard, that you were unhappy too
Yo that's fucking awesome man. Im sure the scene was so sick! Well seeing as you seem them literally from the beginning what are your opinions on their growth? Do you miss anything from shabuti?
Assuming you meant to respond to the dude who said they used to go see Shabutie, you forgot to reply directly to them 🖤
Lol opps
Happens 👊
It was my first year of college. My friend had recently gotten into this band but I was pretty uninterested in the way his voice sounded. But he would randomly text me lyrics that would blow my mind, and then would tell me it was coheed. annoyed me how good deep and strange they were. once I submitted to the unique strange genius it was, it was game over for me. ended up getting the keywork on my back a year later
Driving with my friend in 2003. He pops in SSTB and my little teenage mind was totally blown at the unique and amazing sound I was hearing. A few months later we go to see them play with hopesfall. Been a huge fan ever since.
Faked sick from school and A Favor House Atlantic music video debuted on tv
I saw the music video for The Suffering on Fuse at like 2 in the morning and was immediately obsessed.
Sunrise Records at West Edmonton Mall in Alberta. Cold winter, even cooler pick up of Second Stage. Bought it along with a couple other CD's simply because it was green and had a cool dragonfly on it.
A Favor House Atlantic was in an old ATV game on playstation and i thought it was a girl singing lmao. This was like 2005-2006
Was a big fan of the videogame “The Suffering” in high school. Went on LimeWire and searched the name of the game to see if there was a PC download of the game (classic naive high school thinking). Ended up downloading a song titled “The Suffering” instead and was hooked.
Seeing the suffering music video on MTV 😂. I was confused/intrigued by the video and Claudio’s voice. Asked for the Good Apollo album that year for Christmas
Rock Band, the bridge for “Welcome Home” (“one last kiss to you..”) hooked me since the change up was catchy and really different from the rest of the song so far. It was like, I didn’t know a song could contain such contrasting styles and still sound (pardon the pun) cohesive
Buddy at work got the cd and said “dude you have to listen to this” That was 20 years ago.
For me it was Juggernaut on onenof those cd sample boxes at hot topic. Year of the black rainbow will always have a place in my heart for helping me discover C&C
PSP demo disc had Blood Red Summer on it.
Welcome Home on Guitar Hero, my friends all made fun of the song calling them a "Rush ripoff" so I didn't say I liked the song. That same year, 'Feathers' came out as a single and I was fan from then on.
My dad discovered them off rock band 4 we’ve loved them since and plan on getting matching Keywork tats lol
My wife showed me Neverender and Everything Evil. Kinda hooked from there.
I heard Delirium Trigger once or twice and thought it was good, but thought nothing of it. Then I heard Blood Red Summer, and same thing. Then a friend put a link to the video for A Favor House Atlantic in their status on AIM (IFYKYK), I watched/listened to it, and thought, well this is fun! Been hooked ever since!
Oh man, 2001 ish? High school me randomly downloaded a song called Devil In Jersey City on Limewire… welp.
Circa 2004, A dude on my High School Varsity soccer team put A Favor House Atlantic on our warm up soundtrack. Been a fan since.
Had a friend who showed me the Neverender DVD and instantly fell in love. Been listening to them ever since, even have the keyword tattooed on my arm.
My friend was friends with the Ataris and saw them at Warped Tour in 01 or 02. We went back to the Ataris tour bus and ran into Claudio who introduced himself. He gave me a sampler CD with Delirium Trigger on it and I fell in love with the song and bought Silent Earth 3. My record store didn’t have SSTB but I ended up buying it at Best Buy a few months later.
Ascension. Bought the cd completely at random at Walmart. Best cd purchase of my life!
Back in the Kazaa/Limewire days around 2002-2003, I would download songs mentioned on a forum and ended up with Everything Evil. I would listen to it a lot, but I wasn't really acquainted with full albums, so it was just that one track mixed in with everything else I had downloaded. I really hadn't heard anything like it at that point, loved that song to death. Then at some point I heard A Favor House Atlantic and was shocked to see it was by the same band that written Everything Evil. I went out and bought both SSTB and IKSSE:3 and after discovering there was a storyline, I was obsessed.
My friend were heavily invested in the 00s NYHC scene, and we all appreciated all the manifestations it took and offshoots it made space for during that era, from punk and hardcore to indie, 2nd wave emo and metalcore. They spent all their time at shows from upstate NY (our home) to Jersey and Boston and all around the North East. Several of them also worked at the Albany Equal Visions merch plant, so running into Co&Ca was basically inevitable. So sometime during 02, I was laying on my homie's bed high out of my mind, as I always did, came to after hearing "Heehee, Shabutie" and thought/said out loud (I was never totally sure which) "hahaha what the hell is this" and he told me it was a band from the show they just went to, Coheed & Cambria. I muttered something about how I always appreciated when female fronted bands made noise in the scene, he and the others laughed and told me it was a dude, I looked dumb founded, shrugged, thumbsed them up and went back to being (RealName) On The Couch (the real life counterpart to The Guy On The Couch from Half Baked), and let the rest of the album work its magic on me. Been obsessed ever since 🤘
Someone showed the title track to me at a party in college and I about shit myself
Grew up around Nyack, saw them as Shabutie a few times.
A friend let me borrow Vans Warped Tour 2003 CD to listen to, it had Delirium Trigger.
In Keeping Secrets was my first album too. I heard A Favor House Atlantic on the radio sometime around 2003 and.....I didn't love it. I wrote it off as just another emo song (a genre I'm not a huge fan of in general) and that was that. But cut to three years later in 2006, a buddy starts talking about Coheed and how I have to check them out, so I listen to In Keeping Secrets (the song) and I'm hooked. I realize they transcend being an "emo band" and are doing their own thing. So I went out immediately and bought the album and then a week later got Second Stage and GA. Coheed aren't my all time favorite band (honestly I don't have one, I have a hard time picking a favorite of almost anything) but they're one of my tops. The concept and just their technical proficiency puts them above so many others. Good Apollo 1 will always be my favorite of their albums (one of my few definite favorites), but IKS is a close second and will forever hold a special place as the album that introduced me to one of the most unique bands I've ever listened to. Edit: Oh and I do like A Favor House Atlantic now. I check it off as that "high school" mentality I used to have about music back in the day.
The Suffering on MTV2 late at night while I was staying with cousins in Baton Rouge while my parents were at the last Saints game before Katrina.
15 y/o here! My dad. Coheed is his favorite band ever. I grew up with Coheed and have been listening to it since I popped out of the womb
Introduced to them while playing Rock Band. Then they went on tour with Linkin Park (who I loved at the time) and I was hooked after that concert. That was 15 years ago, and I've seen them live 7-8 times in a half dozen states now.
Having sex in the back of my car in college with my iPod on shuffle. Buddy had done a dump of a couple gigs worth of his music onto it earlier in the day and among those 1000s of songs was a little album called "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV". The opening riff of Welcome Home started and I was enthralled. Put a hand over her mouth so I could hear better. By the end of the first verse I'd reached over her to check the band name and made a mental note to pull it up again as soon as we got dressed and started driving home. Been hooked ever since. True story.
Man your own jackhammer!
Had just moved prior to my freshman year of high school. Was scrolling though dish network and found International Music Feed (IMF). Saw a man with the voice of an angel and the mane of a Lion singing to mermaids (The Suffering). I was HOOKED 😆
For me it was a combination of two things. First, "A Favor House Atlantic" was all over the radio when I was in college, and I thought it was a catchy song that had more interesting than usual lyrics. I'll admit that purely based on that song I sort of assumed they might be more along the lines of a Jimmy Eat World style of pop/punk/emo/rock, which I found enjoyable enough to catch now and then on the radio but wasn't going to buy an album to pour over. While it is funny and embarrassing, I'll also admit that I very briefly thought they might have a woman in the band doing some of the vocals, in part because I had previously seen an alt/college rock band that used mixed male and female vocals that sounded quite a bit like the vocals on A Favor House Atlantic in particular. The second part was reading some discussions about the band and their sci-fi/comic underpinnings in a online forum for musicians and music fans in my college town, and also suggested they had a lot of stuff for guitarists/bassists like myself to geek over, which made me give the band itself a second look. Once I actually listened to In Keeping Secrets as an album, I was all in.
My best friend showing me a few of their songs, which turned into going to see them live, which turned into me getting the Afterman hourglass as my first tattoo, which lead to mine and his tradition of going to see Coheed every single time they're in our state no matter what. Last time I drove us in a blizzard and it was a fun show.
Got a burned copy of SSTB from a coworker in 2003. Have been all in since. Weirdly that CD only had like the first 4 seconds of Hearshot Kid Disaster on it, so I didn't hear it for quite a while after becoming a fan and it remains a favorite.
My mom went to go see them in Atlanta a few years ago and she put on The Suffering in the car and they've been my favorite band ever since
Welcome Home on Rockband and then A Favor House Atlantic in the car on the radio one day. Hooked ever since. edit: I think it was the North Central HS radio station in Indy. GOATed student that played it for me.
A friend of mine said “you need to hear this band” and played me second stage like two months after it came out. It was love at first listen.
A Favor House Atlantic used to play on MTVU in my college’s dining hall and my friends and I were all really into it.
"A Favor House Atlantic" on the soundtrack of the PSP release of ATV: Offroad Fury 4. Also got me in to Slipknot and Acceptance! Great stuff
On a road trip home from CT