Funeral for a Friend

One of the last remaining bastions of the British hardcore scene that exploded into the mainstream at the turn of the century. Bursting out of Bridgend, South Wales, in 2001, Funeral For A Friend were hailed as the saviours of rock music from a young age and given the task of re-energising a scene in desperate need of fresh blood.

They are veterans, in many ways, but the band still packs as much punch and purpose as they started with, if not more. Vivid, aggressive and urgent, spectacularly melding gruff attitude with melodic choruses, flitting frantically between relentless blast beats and heavy, discordant riffs, vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye’s personalised off the hinges screaming, and unapologetically political lyrical content - from wealth inequality to feminism - which has seen them score hard-hitting raw and energetic UK Top 20 singles "Streetcar", "Into Oblivion (Reunion)", "Juneau", "Escape Artists Never Die", and "She Drove Me to Daytime Television".