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Funeral for a Friend

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Funeral for a Friend, abrégé FFAF, est un groupe de post-hardcore britannique, originaire de Bridgend, Pays de Galles. Formé en 2001, il se compose du chanteur Matthew Davies-Kreye, du guitariste Kris Coombs-Roberts, du guitariste Gavin Burrough, du bassiste Richard Boucher et du batteur Pat Lundy.

La popularité de Funeral for a Friend s'étend initialement au Royaume-Uni grâce à leur premier album studio, Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation (2003). Hours (2005) et Tales Don't Tell Themselves (2007), leurs albums successeurs, montre une évolution musicale chez Funeral for a Friend par rapport à leur premier album, le groupe faisant désormais usage de hurlements, de riffs de type heavy metal, notamment. Ces deux albums ont été certifiés disque d'or et d'argent au Royaume-Uni, respectivement. Le quatrième album auto-produit de Funeral for a Friend, Memory and Humanity (2008), et distribué via leur propre label discographique nommé Join Us, est considéré comme le plus éclectique à ce jour. Par la suite, le groupe distribue via d'autres labels leurs albums Welcome Home Armageddon (2011) et Conduit (2013), qui présentent leur style musical initial influencé par le metal et le hardcore.

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Funeral for a Friend is a Welsh post-hardcore band from Bridgend, formed in 2001. The band's members are Kris Roberts (guitar, backing vocals), Gavin Burrough (guitar, vocals), Darran Smith (guitar), Richard Boucher (bass), and Ryan Richards (drums, vocals).

Funeral for a Friend's popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation (2003). Achieving both a gold certification and three top-twenty singles in their home country, Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation is often acclaimed as one of the landmark emo records of the 2000s. Hours (2005) featured a similar musical style to their debut, but also showcased more melodic sensibilities, and Tales Don't Tell Themselves (2007) showed an evolution in Funeral for a Friend's musical style from that which defined their debut, as the group began to diverge from their use of screaming vocals and post-hardcore-influenced guitars, favoring a more melodic rock influence. These albums achieved gold and silver sales certificates respectively in the UK.

Funeral for a Friend self-released their fourth album, Memory and Humanity (2008) through their short-lived record label Join Us, the album arguably being their most eclectic to date. Following this the band tied themselves to other independent labels for Welcome Home Armageddon (2011) Conduit (2013), and Chapter and Verse (2015), which showed the band returning to the heavier style of their earlier work. In September 2015, they announced their break-up and final tour in 2016. On 21 May 2016, they played their last performance to a sold-out Forum in London.

In October 2019, Funeral for a Friend reunited as a live band, initially for three benefit shows - two in Cardiff at the Cardiff University Student Union followed by one in London at Shepherd's Bush Empire. Following a planned performance at the canceled 2020 Download Festival, they announced a headline UK tour for April 2021 playing songs from their first three albums. In December 2023 the band announced they would be returning to recording music, but without founding vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye.

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