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Being on the firing line is an upstart all Teenagers have to venture through. Addressing the growing pains, and love pangs, it’s a testing time. You have to be strong, put up reliance and stand assured you will cure your flaws. Music is a platform were young, tender, newbie’s can confide. A dazzling World, where sound patrols the worrying, mangled thoughts of a child tasting the bitter stronghold of lives stale platter.
Here comes the assault, from a pact of teenagers stating a protest, commencing their own small revolution. Bringing their own masterminded plan to the table, picking up their inspiration in the process. Metal Music is like fearful monster, a titan like creature with nails thick enough to cut through the bubblegum competitors. Drinking its life potion raising dry, marking its territory with a gaping gash to its waxed, overly groomed chest. That is a sign of brutality, and the dark minions don’t give a fuck…
Come forward Funeral for a Friend, a 5 piece band perfecting the brand they choose to showcase. Leading the charge and screaming their thoughts of a Music Industry brutally raped. The discharge of Music impurity bears an anaemic lookout, but Funeral try to address the fault with music packed with enough beef and iron to resolve the decline. They stand and issue out their views, with no bitter disputes or cruelness, they just want to be noted in the black book of metal heads with a point to prove. Funeral for a Friend is the band burrowing into a deep sector, using profound lyrics as a magical spade.
Coming to terms with fame can be a push into a World where the norm is put through the shredder. You are enabled to change your life and stray from the ordinary borderline as much as possible. Funeral became the next Metal recruits sent to communicate to there comrades craving a fresh bash of euphoria. The cult weren’t disappointed as Funeral released a full length debut following numerous EP’S brewing with life. ‘‘Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation’’ started the crusade of a Rock story. Marking their on tattoo on the pale skin of metal heads craving an energetic bang to the brain, it was like a moshpit in form of a disc ready to blow the house down.
The record that started the protest previewed a state of mind, love-struck innocence and teenage growing pains. Funeral morphed from teenage realists, to mature men in a matter of Months. Naturally blooming like flowers without the added toxins, the band more than proved their points, with a dash of flair and screaming tensions. Songs with pristine lyrics and flying guitar riffs, the album was a work of men breaking through the barrier of Teenage life without scars or unworthiness. ‘Bullet Theory’ ‘Red Is the New Black’ ‘Juneau’ where the prized assets of a catalogue filled with rawness and stability. Previewing the upheaval of tortured feelings and depressive motives, Metal has that melodic ribbed edge.
Casually unearthed the band to the listeners, bringing them into the Funeral scope-line. But the band gave birth to ‘Hours’ in 2005. A collection of statements and serious subjects. Reviewing the urges of suicide and all its components, the coming to terms of love-loss and the aches of heartbreak. ‘Roses for the Dead
‘Streetcar’ and ‘History’ became the breadwinners, more guitar frenzy with a defined over-skin, ‘Hours’ was a breath of new hope. Lyrically deep, Matt Davies manages to pull the listener in, dragging them through a river of bliss and nostalgia. It’s hard to back away from a work of art which was only the bands second release.
‘Hours’ was a melodic rise to fame, masking the Metal World with its contagious gas. Yet the band wanted to come back out to forefront in 2007 with concept album ‘‘Tales Don’t Tell themselves’’ a new found inspiration emerged when the delicate sound of Tales was strung together. But for all the added melodic verve, came disruptive views from the cult that witnessed Funeral in their Metal etched glory days. They tried to find questions and answers from the pioneers that brought them such tasty, cranky, rock fuelled triumphs, and asked ‘Why go soft’?
It wasn’t entirely the bands fault, the record label spat out their demands. Stating that ‘‘Matt Davies’’ writing input was ‘Too Intelligent’ and that mainstream is the best way to gain money and fame. That demanded nature soured Funeral’s entire metal ethic, and Tales sounded more pop than Rock. Tales didn’t master the magic and vitality as hours, it landed with a crash, gaping the inner circle of Rock. People have they’re own self-styled perceptions on the creation of Tales, stating that the band mastered a fluent performance, and others slurring that extinction beckoned.
Tales was shelved, placed in the under-tier, for the mellower walks of life to indulge in. The record was merely recognised for Musical stability, it just didn’t work. Funeral left they’re post as puppets of a record label avid in altering the bands formula. Funeral For a Friend were ready to go bad-ass and dent the Metal World once more. The puppeteers surrendered, waving the white flag in the air as Funeral clawed through the security gates to shape they’re fresh, unsupervised venture.
2008 was a learning curve for the Welsh masterminds. Funeral went back to what they know. Memory and Humanity was materialised with the same venom as casually Dressed, an artwork formed by guts and intention. Funeral sparked a new craze with they’re 4th studio release, taking the volume to breaking point with belters ‘Constant Illuminations’ and second single ‘Waterfront Dance-club’ Funeral relapsed back into metal, and it was the most relevant decision. Sparks flew and a tour was on the agenda.
Funeral certainly utilised they’re sound, marking a musical tattoo on the face of the World. Marching like comrades readying for battle. The act promised a marvel, and they lived up to that statement. Memory and Humanity redeveloped the sound that once was lapped up by the swaying crowd that lingered like a mist. Previewing a sound of tension and bottled up ideas, the band rallied to the forefront, upgrading they’re fan-base in the process. This band have grown, fluttered, and released they’re own brand. Silencing the critics that berated. Funeral for Friend aren’t teenagers anymore, they are men on the warpath to inject a style that was formulated when growing pains where still apparent.
Mark McConville
Thanks to markmcconvile@hotmail.co.uk for submitting the biography. |
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ffaf | Reviewer: mary | 6/24/2007
i thought the drummer's name was randy richards?? wtf... anyhow, ffaf is my fav band ever...matt is a lyrical god!
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who needs words? | Reviewer: Dokerz | 5/21/2007
With a band so talented and so capable of creating brilliant songs, you dont need to read what people say about them, pick up any song from any of their albums - you will love it!
"Casually dressed..." showed signs of potential, but wasn't anything special in it's own right. But then they seemed to calm down a lot, and produced breath-taking songs on "hours", such as "history" and "recovery".
Lyrically this band's ingeniouity sets it far above the others in the post hardcore genre. Although at first they seem difficult to understand, each song tells its ow story...
All in all, a great band!
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Great!!! | Reviewer: Monta | 1/11/2007
omg I love them so much, the band is great...I totally love the lyrics and songs are amazing!
rock on!
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... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/19/2006
who said that MCR is gothic... are u crazy... they are emo, there is a massive differnce, if u want gothic listen to deathstars(they rock)
any way ffaf is awsome, i only resently got into them... go ahead discriminate me because i heard them on channel v... but hey i luv them.
i brought hours and its totally awsome
keep rocken ffaf
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YUH!!! | Reviewer: Priss | 11/16/2005
The first song I heard of theirs was the OLD bullet thoery. It fuckin rocked! I went to see them at Tast of Chaos on sunday (the fo=irst UK tour). Their set was really good!
The only way I can describe their sound is: emo/ (very slightly)scremo/ very slightly metal. Their instrumental play is metalish, but thei lyrics are emo, and their style is emo. The band members are really cool! I met them twice and they remembered me and my friends. They were cool (apart from Matt. He's sorta big headed...).
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Killing Machine
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real good. | Reviewer: zd | 10/28/2005
well, heard of this band from the Taste of Chaos tour website and the Burnout Revenge game.. i thought thier music was quite good, but sometimes i dun get the meaning of the lyrics..on the whole..their new album "Hours" is great.
their style is quite similar to The Used, but softer. Almost equal to My Chemical Romance, but not so gothic.
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omfg love!! | Reviewer: Lacey | 10/28/2005
ahh, i love this band. it's great. you gotta love 'em! seriously!
ffaf is an awesome metal/emo/post-hardcore band. sweet. :]
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Kick Ass! | Reviewer: Taylor | 5/13/2005
This band is amazing, there is no words to describe my love for them and how amazing they really are, so all i have to say is to pick up any album and enjoy because you will..amazing band...
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