History Music / FuneralForAFriend

* OneOfUs: Matt has described himself as a nerd on many occasions. This fact is made even more emphatic by his Twitter, in which his tweets have focused on such subjects as record collecting, movies, videogames and tabletop gaming.

Funeral For A Friend is a PostHardcore band from Bridgend, Wales. Formed in 2001, they have released five studio albums. Unlike most bands in the genre, Funeral For A Friend are influenced by NWOBHM and ThrashMetal. They are sometimes called emo or screamo, and acknowledge its influence on them. However, they consider themselves to play a unique style of music influenced by many genres, and for this reason, prefer to be called a hard rock or metal band. In addition, their sound features interplay between dual vocalists and guitarists.

** In the period after Matthew Evans left until about somewhere during the Hours album cycle Matt screamed on some of the band's output such as 'You Want Romance?', '10 Scene Points To The Winner' and various songs live and a few demos on Hours such as 'Roses For The Dead' and 'Tghe End of Nothing'.

** However, unlike Best, he left of his own accord to study art, and became an artist known as Snowskull. The band notably contacted him to draw the cover art for their album Conduit.

** It's worth mentioning that "The Miracle Of Christmas" (from the Taste Of Christmas compilation) and "Damage Inc" (from Kerrang ReMastered) are on now out of print various artist compilations, even though they are on CD.

** In their early years, the members of IronMaiden became fans of the band, and invited them to tour with them. Magazines put two and two together and claimed Maiden were FFAF's idols, which was intended to give them more credibility amongst metal fans, who were notoriously hostile to emo bands at the time. FFAF certainly got treated badly when supporting them, and vowed never to do so again. In fact, Matt noted in a 2015 interview for the Holy Roar Podcast that he wasn't a fan of Maiden at all, and actually got in trouble with their manager Rod Smallwood for announcing that FFAF's songs were about orcs and goblins (thus making fun of Maiden, and showing a [presumably intentional] lack of understanding of their lyrics).

* LyricalDissonance - The first half of the song "Welcome Home Armageddon" is probably the most upbeat-sounding song about the apocalypse this side of {{REM}} The second part is [[SubduedSection much more somber]].

** In their early years, the members of IronMaiden became fans of the band, and invited them to tour with them. Magazines put two and two together and claimed Maiden were FFAF's idols, which was intended to give them more credibility amongst metal fans, who were notoriously hostile to emo bands at the time. FFAF certainly got treated badly when supporting them, and vowed never to do so again. In fact, Matt noted in a 2015 interview for the Holy Roar Podcast that he wasn't a fan of Maiden at all, and actually got in trouble with their manager Rod Smallwood for announcing that FFAF's songs were abut orcs and goblins (thus making fun of Maiden).

* OneOfUs: Matt has described himself as a nerd on many occasions.

** "Juno"/"Juneau" is also one - the band have been known to stop playing whilst the crowd sings "And I'm nothing more than a line in your book". Amazingly, they were doing this as early as late 2002 when Between Order And Model was their only release (early video footage on Youtube proves this).

* ExecutiveMeddling - Likely to be the reason for the removal of the screaming in Juneau, as it was going to be released as a single. The band have always played it live in its Juno arrangement (IE with screaming) thus indicating they always intended it to have it. The demo and 2002 live version of She Drove Me To Daytime Television has the line "on and on and on" sung only once at the end, whereas the EP / album version has it repeated. The demos of Storytelling and Moments Forever Faded have more screaming in them.

* RearrangeTheSong - "Juno", from their first EP, was re-recorded as "Juneau" on their debut album. The second version was a bit less screamy and intense and more catchy.
** "This Letter" was originally recorded in a heavy arrangement to being a very sedate acoustic arrangement for its release on the "Streetcar" single. For years, this acoustic version was the only one available to the public, but the heavy version has appeared on the digital only third disc of Your History Is Mine (it also appeared on a promo acetate CD, years before).

Funeral For A Friend is a PostHardcore band from Bridgend, Wales. Formed in 2001, they have released five studio albums. Unlike most bands in the genre, FuneralForAFriend are influenced by NWOBHM and ThrashMetal. They are sometimes called emo or screamo, and acknowledge its influence on them. However, they consider themselves to play a unique style of music influenced by many genres, and for this reason, prefer to be called a hard rock or metal band. In addition, their sound features interplay between dual vocalists and guitarists.

* FollowTheLeader - The band were very inspired by American post-hardcore bands like Deftones, Boysetsfire, Far and Hum. In turn, their popularity in the UK was a big catalyst for the expansion of the whole emo scene over there and the switching of Kerrang! magazine to being mostly about the genre (they were regularly featured). Such bands as {{Fightstar}}, BulletForMyValentine and BringMeTheHorizon formed out of wanting to make music like FFAF, although went off in different directions. The band had a far more American sound than British indie rock did, and had an impact because of it. The band are thought of as legends in the genre even though they have long past peaked in popularity.

Funeral For A Friend is a {{Post-Hardcore}} band from Bridgend, Wales. Formed in 2001, they have released five studio albums. Unlike most bands in the genre, FuneralForAFriend are influenced by NWOBHM and ThrashMetal. They are sometimes called emo or screamo, and acknowledge its influence on them. However, they consider themselves to play a unique style of music influenced by many genres, and for this reason, prefer to be called a hard rock or metal band. In addition, their sound features interplay between dual vocalists and guitarists.

* LighterAndSofter - ''Hours'' and ''Tales Don't Tell Themselves'' were more melodic and less aggressive than their debut. However, the band followed these with ''Memory and Humanity'', which included some heavier songs, and then ''Welcome Home Armageddon'' and ''Conduit'' where they went even further in that direction than they had on previous albums.

* LighterAndSofter - ''Hours'' and ''Tales Don't Tell Themselves'' were more melodic and less aggressive than their debut. ''Memory and Humanity'' included some heavier songs, and with ''Welcome Home Armageddon'' and ''Conduit'' the band went even further in that direction than they had on previous albums.

* LighterAndSofter - ''Hours'' and ''Tales Don't Tell Themselves'' were more melodic and less heavy than their debut. They got back to the old sound on ''Memory and Humanity'', and got even heavier on ''Welcome Home Armageddon''.

* {{Emo}} - They've been lumped in with the scene, although they're more Melodic Hardcore with Music/HeavyMetal influences.