We're joined in Cozumel, Mexico for a very special, long awaited conversation with Coheed & Cambria vocalist/guitarist: the great Claudio Sanchez.

We discuss Claudio's journey through music discovery and picking up the guitar long before Coheed, how a trip to Paris birthed "The Amory Wars" concept, the real life events and tragedies that inspired each album's concept, existing outside of genres and scenes, the immediate impact of "Welcome Home" and the writing/recording processes from "The Second Stage Turbine Blade" all the way to "The Father of Make Believe" -- a truly phenomenal episode with one of modern music's greatest guitar players and songwriters.

Thank you to Claudio for joining us and for having us on the S.S. Neverender. We are one among the fence.

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Edited by Steven Grise (@iamoneonenineseven) • Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf (@marzluf)

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00:00:00 - Start

00:03:28 - Discovering Music

00:11:56 - Punk, hardcore, death metal...

00:14:50 - Finding His Voice

00:17:59 - Shabutie

00:19:11 - Creation of Coheed & Cambria

00:22:46 - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

00:32:27 - "Everything Evil" and THE Melody

00:33:56 - Contributing To The Narrative

00:38:31 - Touring on Second Stage

00:39:03 - Blaze James

00:42:48 - Reflecting on Second Stage Songwriting

00:43:53 - The Sequential Order of the Discography

00:45:27 - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth

00:49:29 - Dr. Know

00:51:27 - Touring On In Keeping Secrets...

00:53:30 - THE JACKHAMMER

01:01:00 - The Unique Production on In Keeping Secrets...

01:02:28 - Summarizing the Plot Synopsis

01:05:10 - "The Crowing" Breakdown

01:10:02 - The Heaviest Thing Claudio Listens To

01:12:53 - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Vol. 1

01:16:36 - Fortnite

01:18:04 - Being Hard On Yourself

01:21:19 - Apollo 1 & 2

01:25:23 - No World For Tomorrow

01:29:28 - "The Running Free"

01:31:41 - The Insane Breakdown In The Title Track

01:36:25 - Year Of The Black Rainbow

01:43:16 - Self Producing Their Records

01:48:58 - Knowing When A Song Is Done

01:53:29 - How Do You Relax?

01:55:06 - Simple Pleasures

02:02:20 - Top 4 Coheed Riffs

02:05:35 - Top 4 Punk, HC, Death Metal albums...