Funeral Diner
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Funeral Diner is a screamo band from Half Moon Bay, California, located approximately fifty miles south of San Francisco, playing self-described "screamy, chaotic, melodic hardcore." During the last few years, the band has established a strong cult fanbase through a near constant string of releases and a touring schedule which has seen them visit the United States, Europe, Japan, and various other locales repeatedly. In typical DIY fashion, the band has a large catalog of splits and compilation tracks floating around on various records, rarely pressing CDs, and keeping many of their releases in limited quantities and one-time pressings, jumping from label to label, though their last few major recordings have been released by Alone Records. As such, many of their recordings have become fairly difficult to track down, with many being sold for three to four times the original price on sites such as eBay and at record swaps.
Members in the band have served time previously (and sometimes concurrently) with Nexus Six, Portraits of Past, and Takaru. This makes them somewhat of an anomaly in the current music scene they take part in, as many of the original emo bands have since broken up, and many of the current bands hold little to no ties to the original community, which Funeral Diner certainly does. Though rooted in first wave emo, hardcore emo, and early screamo stylings, the band has bridged out into territories such as hardcore punk, grind, post-rock, and even fairly straight-forward indie rock, though frequently blending these elements together into their sonic collage as opposed to simply displaying disparate elements of each separately.
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[edit] Members
- Seth Babb: vocals (formerly of Takaru)
- Dan Bajda: guitar/vocals (formerly of Nexus Six)
- Matt Bajba: drums (formerly of Portraits of Past, Nexus Six)
- Dave Mello: guitar
- Ben Steidel: bass
[edit] Former
- Andy Radin: bass
[edit] Discography
- title (format, number pressed, release date, label)
[edit] LPs
- Difference of Potential (LP, 1000, 09/03; CD, 2000, 08/02; Ape Must Not Kill Ape)
- Three Sides Dead (compilation of splits w/ Nexus Six, Staircase, the Shivering) (CD, 540, 09/03, Lilac Sky)
- ...is Dead (CD-R, 200, 09/03, Sorry)
- The Underdark (LP, 1200, 04/05; CD, 3000, 04/05; Alone)
[edit] EPs
- The Wicked (CD, 1000, 08/02, Sorry; CD, 2000, 05/04, Alone; 10", 1000, 05/04, Alone)
- Swept Under (10", ???, ??/05, Lilac Sky; CD, ???, ??/05, Cosmic Note)
- Doors Open (CD, 1000, 03/07, self-released)
[edit] Splits
- w/ Nexus Six (LP, 1000, 01/99, Old Glory)
- w/ Staircase (LP, 1000, 08/01, Ape Must Not Kill Ape)
- w/ The Shivering (LP, 600, 11/01, Into the Hurricane/Unfun/City Boot)
- w/ Zann (7", 1485 [three pressings], 10/02, Vendetta)
- A Sequel of a Story w/ End on End, Under a Dying Sun, Endzweck (CD, 1000, 08/03; LP, 1000, 02/04; Cosmic Note)
- w/ The Saddest Landscape (Rites of Spring cover) (7", 780, 09/03, Firewalk With Me)
- w/ Dead City (tour LP, 130, 09/03; regular LP, 1000, 09/03; So Much to Give)
- w/ Evylock (CD, 500, 06/04, Falling Leaves; 10", 335 green / 340 black, 03/05, Somberlain)
- w/ Raein (7", 460 champagne / 570 black, 06/04, Red Cars Go Faster)
- w/ Welcome the Plague Year (7", 07/04 100 white / 200 clear / 700 black / 1000 blue, Electric Human Project)
[edit] Compilations
- Inspiration From Forest (CD, ???, 11/03, Falling Leaves)
