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FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND: New Album To Receive U.S. Release In March

January 24, 2011

"Welcome Home Armageddon", the new album from the British post-hardcore act FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, will be released in the U.S. on March 15 via Good Fight Music. The band's first collection of new music since 2008's "Memory And Humanity" features "a new musical direction" and reunites the group with the original label team that released FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND's first two major pieces of music, "Seven Ways To Scream Your Name" EP (2003) and "Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation" (2003).

"Welcome Home Armageddon" track listing:

01. This Side Of Brightness
02. Old Hymns
03. Front Row Seats To The End of The World
04. Sixteen
05. Aftertaste
06. Spinning Over The Island
07. Man Alive
08. Owls (Are Watching)
09. Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don't
10. Medicated
11. Broken Foundation
12. Welcome Home Armageddon

The song "Front Row Seats to The End of the World" is available for download at ProjectRodney.com.

"On 'Welcome Home Armageddon', we truly stretched ourselves creatively,” states vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye.

"We were obviously taken aback when Darran [Smith, former guitarist] left the band, but his choice allowed us to explore new territory musically, we just went in any and every direction we wanted to. The changes to our lineup reignited our passion, kicked our asses and made us work harder for this band than we've ever done before."

With former HONDO MACLEAN and GHOSTLINES member Richard Boucher installed on bass and Gavin Burrough promoted to his preferred guitar, the band split time between Long Wave Studio and Monnow Valley Studio in Wales and set about crafting its latest effort with producer Romesh Dodangoda (TWIN ATLANTIC, KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE). Dodangoda also produced "Memory And Humanity".

"The excitement we have for the future of this band is all over the songs on 'Welcome Home Armageddon'," adds Davies-Kreye. "The album is about acceptance and coming to terms with what has and is, while refusing to give up on what could be. There are songs that take me places I've been trying to go musically all my life. I'm so proud of what we have done."

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND has sold more than a million records, and all four of the band's albums have landed in the U.K. Top 20. The group has three gold records, has graced countless magazine covers, and its tours sell out the U.K.'s larger venues in a matter of minutes.

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND is:

Matthew Davies-Kreye - Lead Vocals
Kris Coombs-Roberts - Guitar, Vocals
Gavin Burrough - Guitar, Vocals
Ryan Richards - Drums, Vocals
Richard Boucher - Bass

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