28.04.21 | Alex Sievers
2021 marks a decade since the best and most explosive Funeral For A Friend record, ‘Welcome Home Armageddon!’
Released on March 14th through Distiller Records in the U.K. and via Good Fight Music over in the U.S., I have no idea why ‘
Welcome Home Armageddon!‘ isn’t spoken of with the same reverence as ‘
Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation‘ (2003) or even ‘
Hours‘ (2005). For this is
Funeral For A Friend’s best record; like a relevant, direct sequel to those first two much-loved albums. I will forever die on this hill, over and over again, day in and day out, like a famous-less, post-hardcore Bill Murray.
18.02.21 | Alex Sievers
2005 was a big 12-month window for music! Fall Out Boy’s breakout ‘From Under The Cork Tree,’ The Mars Volta’s first step toward glorious self-indulgence with ‘Frances The Mute,’ the core of The Black Dahlia Murder’s evil sound on ‘Miasma,’ Bullet For My Valentine exploding due to ‘The Poison,’ Trivium making their claim on ‘Ascendency,’ Avenged Sevenfold blowing up more by way of ‘City Of Evil,’ and 30 Seconds To Mars getting big off the 40% of ‘A Beautiful Lie’ that people actually remember and like.
As for the great fifteen albums from 2005 that are covered here, they might not necessarily be the biggest from their respective creators, but they are some of these artists’ strongest offerings. Equally important, these are releases that I dearly enjoy and deeply respect. Albums that I personally revisited many times during 2020 when they all hit this milestone; albums that have withstood time, the harshest critic of the