Funeral For A Friend Band • Page 13

Darran never seems to age.

 

This video randomly popped up on YouTube earlier and I can actually remember this coming on the TV in the UK haha.

 

Welcome Home Armageddon is a banger of an album. My fave of theirs!

 

Worth reading in full

 

wow did not see that coming

they should get Stephen Christian to fill in I heard he's free

 

Damn, there’s no denying though that Matt was the weakest link in the band from their most recent era of live shows. Hopefully they get someone who can do the songs justice as he will be hard to replace especially from a view of when he was in his prime.

 

Yeah despite his decline performance wise, I was still looking forward to eventual new music with him so I’m stunned by this announcement. The guy from Holding Absence is a good replacement for the time being. If his band wasn’t this active, I’d say he’d be a good fit. Hoping everything works out and their new material won’t feel too weird without Matt.

 

Another thought that just popped up is they could finally let Gavin sing more, even if it’ll feel like his and Rich’s old band Hondo Maclean again.

 

Yeah, definitely shocking. Matt in his prime was such a good vocalist live. He always killed it. Somewhere post WHA saw a rapid decline in what he could do live though.

Looking forward to see what they do next.

 

I would definitely listen to an album with Gavin on vox especially if it sounded like the Your History stuff

 

Does anyone know why Welcome Home Armageddon isn't on Spotify? Was in the mood to listen to that album earlier but I guess I won't now lol

 

Weird. I'm sure it was still up there a few months ago.

 

I see it, but I'm in the USA, so I don't know if Immortal is elsewhere?

 

Welcome Home Armageddon hasn't been available for at least a couple years in my country, same for Memory & Humanity and Your History Is Mine.

 

Yeah I’m based in the UK.

 

Which is very ironic.

 

It's on Apple Music (I'm UK based).

 

oh yeah it hasn't been on Spotify in Poland for a few years too, which sucks. Hope they'll bring it back. Also, huge blow for me to have missed their shows with Dashboard Confessional. Seen them 5/6 times in my life, bet it will be somewhat weird without Matt. Such a great person, I wish him all the best!

 

here's a cool fact I just found, they changed the running order for Tales before release to what they thought flowed better. Matt posted the original narrative story/order recently, it goes like this:

One for the Road
Rise and Fall (Japan bonus track)
The Diary
Raise the Sail
Open Water
Out of Reach
Walk Away
On a Wire
The Great Wide Open
Sweetest Wave
Into Oblivion

 

That’s cool. Just made that playlist to try out maybe tomorrow. Haven’t listened to Rise and Fall in maybe 13 years.

 

Interesting that the first track was originally intended to be the last.

 

it does work pretty well in both spots. I mean lyrically it's obviously about the sailor coming home finally but as an opener it plays as an overture type thing for the whole concept really well

energy wise it just feels right there and with Sweetest Wave last imo, other than that I actually think I prefer the narrative order. Rise and Fall is too good to get b-sided

 

I always thought Into Oblivion was oddly placed as the lyrics pointed to the character coming home and it’s generally the most positive song on there.

 

dunno if it's that new tracklist or what but I've been obsessed with Tales lately. woke up with the hook to The Diary in my head like the past four days in a row, I'm not mad about it

 

Great song, one of the best on there I'd say.