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Funeral For A Friend
Funeral for a Friend's energized blend of emo, metal, and post-hardcore is created by vocalist Matt Davies, guitarists Kris Roberts and Darran Smith, bassist Gareth Davies, and drummer Randy Richards.
The Welsh quintet first appeared in 2002 with a series of EPs and singles, including Between Order and Model, Four Ways to Scream Your Name, and Juneau. Such releases helped land the group on the cover of Kerrang! magazine, a recognition of the band's growing hype that, in turn, earned a record deal with Warner Music. Funeral for a Friend's debut full-length, Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation, was then issued in October 2003. It was not given a concurrent U.S. release; instead, the seven-track mini-CD Seven Ways to Scream Your Name (collecting non-album tracks from the earlier EPs) appeared domestically via the New Jersey indie label Ferret. Meanwhile, Funeral for a Friend embarked on a series of high-profile touring engagements, including a series of European dates opening for Iron Maiden.
Touring continued through summer 2004, and the Spilling Blood in 8mm DVD appeared in September with live footage, videos, and a band documentary. Funeral for a Friend returned in June 2005 with Hours, their second full-length; more touring followed, including the band's first stint on the Warped Tour. The guys also picked up that year's Kerrang! award for Best British Band. Back at home by the end of 2005, Matt Davies utilized some downtime from touring to work on material for his first side project, the alt-country-inspired the Secret Show, whose debut album was released in February 2007. Three months later, Funeral for a Friend issued their next album, Tales Don't Tell Themselves, subsequently jumping on the road for headlining dates in the U.K. and U.S. before spending summer on the Warped Tour. Memory and Humanity followed shortly thereafter, arriving during the final quarter of 2008 and featuring the band's familiar mix of emo-influenced songcraft and anthemic rock uplift.
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Funeral released a greatest hit compilation in September 2009 entitled 'Your History Is Mine' featuring all the songs they released on their previous four records and a few new tracks. At the beginning of 2010, guitarist Darran Smith announced he will be quitting the band, after their UK tour in the summer.
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Raging Speedhorn
Corby metaller’s Raging Speedhorn formed in 1998, and consist of John Loughlin (vocals) Frank Regan (vocals), Gareth Smith (guitar), Tony Loughlin (guitar), Darren Smith (bass) and Gordon Morison (drums).
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The sextet named themselves Raging Speedhorn (I’ll let you look up what that means…), and shortly recorded two demos with Roddy Stone, now of Viking Skull, and were granted a record deal with ZTT Press. A third demo and positive write-ups in the rock press started to spread the band's name. In July 1999, Raging Speedhorn supported Ministry in London and a support tour with earthtone9 followed in November.
The band continued growing, with support slots for Will Haven, Tribute to Nothing and Kittie, which were fitting in around the recording of their self-titled debut album. In July 2000, Raging Speedhorn played their first headline UK tour.
They were afterwards granted major support slots supporting Biohazzard and Amen, and in May 2001, Raging Speedhorn were one of the opening bands at UK Ozzfest. In June, their new single ‘The Gush’, entered the UK Top 50.
Their second album, ‘We Will Be Dead Tomorrow’, although delayed by a year, received great reviews. Tony Loughlin was then replaced on guitar by Jay Thompson, and they made a return to the studio to record their third album, 'How The Great Have Fallen'.
On 25 March 2008 it was announced the band was to split after a final tour.
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