| CD REVIEW Funeral For A Friend |
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Band: Funeral For A Friend ‘Welcome Home Armageddon’ is the fifth full length for the Welshmen and was highly anticipated after last year’s EP ‘The Young And Defenceless’. Honest is honest, not all songs on this album are brand new. “Sixteen” and “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t” were already featured on the EP from 2010. That being said, besides those two songs, there are 10 more tracks featured on the record that we’ve never heard before, so let’s focus on that. The album has everything you could expect from a Funeral For A Friend album. The riffs are melodic but metal and are banging down doors that have been closed for too long. Besides the heavy strucks of metal there is more than enough room for more punkrock driven tunes, like for example the bridge on “Sixteen”. The band’s new bass player gets the job done. Not only do the bass lines provide counterweight for the fierce and heavy guitar riffs, they tell a story line themselves and that’s not easy! My personal favorite of the album must be “Owls (are watching)”. The song takes of with a very crisp and clean sound, but it assembles the best of everything the band is capable of in only three minutes. Overall this album is the record Funeral For A Friend fans have been looking out for since their debut! Magaly. |