Funeral Diner was a screamo

Screamo

Screamo, though used loosely to generally describe music that features screamed vocals, is actually a musical subgenre of hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s...

 band from Half Moon Bay, California

Half Moon Bay, California

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, located approximately 25 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, and Japan. The band has a large catalog of splits and compilation tracks 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. Their most recent full-length, The Underdark, was issued on Alone in 2005.

Members in the band have previously affiliated with other groups such as Nexus Six, Portraits of Past

Portraits of Past

Portraits of Past is a post-hardcore band from the San Francisco Bay Area that existed roughly from 1994-1995. The genre of music that they helped create is often described as "screamo," though that term was not used at the time the band was active...

, Living War Room, Lost Ground

Lost Ground

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, Sheep Squeeze

Sheep Squeeze

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, and Takaru. Though rooted in first wave emo

Emo (music)

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, hardcore emo, and early screamo

Screamo

Screamo, though used loosely to generally describe music that features screamed vocals, is actually a musical subgenre of hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s...

 characteristics, the band later included elements of post-rock

Post-rock

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Funeral Diner's albums have attracted significant coverage from rock press outlets.

After the breakup, members have gone on to form Stirling Says, ...Who Calls So Loud, Pills and Lemonade

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At Break Up

• Seth Babb: vocals
• Dan Bajda: guitar/vocals
• Matthew Bajda: drums
• Dave Mello: guitar
• Ben Steidel: bass

LPs

• Difference of Potential (LP, 1000, 09/03; CD, 2000, 08/02; Ape Must Not Kill Ape)

1. Syncope
2. Direct Hit
3. Lackluster
4. There Is No Today's Today, So There Will Be No Yesterday's Tomorrow
5. I Wish I Could Do The Backstroke
6. Chalk angels
7. Paper
8. Fire... Deth

• Three Sides Dead (compilation of splits w/ Nexus Six, Staircase, The Shivering) (CD, 540, 09/03, Lilac Sky)

1. Lucky strike
2. I wish i could do the backstroke
3. Choirs And Cannons
4. Shifting
5. Direct Hit
6. Easy Chair Method
7. Torn Safety Net
8. Anemic Bulemic
9. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid
10. My Fist Smells Like Graveyard
11. We Don't Belong In Concrete
12. The Nightbuilders
13. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid
14. Journeyman
15. .5
16. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid (original version)
17. Pharmacy Rage

• ...is Dead (CD-R, 200, 09/03, Sorry)

1. Yeah, You Remember That
2. A true Triumph Of Man Vs. Machine
3. Welcome To My Book Collection
4. Chameleon
5. Wearing Thin
6. City Of Webs
7. Shifting
8. This Truly Is God's Country
9. Let Me Get A Few Practice Stabs

• The Underdark (LP, 1200, 04/05; CD, 3000, 04/05; Alone)

1. "Decline"
2. "Collapsing"
3. "We Become Buried"
4. "It Is Good That We Never Met"
5. "Two Houses"
6. "What Was Said"
7. "Regardless We Fall"
8. "We All Have Blood On Our Hands"

EPs

• The Wicked (CD, 1000, 08/02, Sorry; CD, 2000, 05/04, Alone; 10", 1000, 05/04, Alone)

1. ...And The Beast Shall Be Made Legion
2. The Wicked
3. End On 6
4. It Burns

• Swept Under (10", 500, ??/05, Lilac Sky; CD, ???, ??/05, Cosmic Note)

1. Bearing My Shield Or Borne Upon My Shield
2. Under
3. Never To Be
4. For The Beasts
5. City Of Webs (Title Mix)
6. Shifting (Battery Cage "Street Arcade High Score" Remix)
7. This Truly Is God's Country (See Colin Slash Mix)
8. Shifting (Midnight Laserbeam Remix)
9. Shifting (Black Van Remix)

• Tour Demo (3" CD, 75, ??/06, self-released)

1. Adendum
2. I Was The Sword
3. Two More

• Doors Open (CD, 1000, 03/07, self-released, 12" 600 Adagio830)

1. This Wrath
2. Carved From Stone
3. Neither Option
4. Head Of Vecna
5. This Optimism

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
  Rites of Spring
  Rites of Spring was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C. in the mid-1980s, known for their energetic live performances. A part of the D.C. hardcore punk scene, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore while simultaneously experimenting with...
  
   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
  Raein
  Raein is an Italian screamo band that featured members from screamo act La Quiete and the post rock band Neil on Impression. The band broke up in late 2005, but after a hiatus of almost 2 years they got back to play together in September 2007...
  
   (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)
• w/ Ampere
  Ampere (band)
  Ampere is a DIY punk band based in Amherst, Massachusetts known for their short but extremely loud and intense live shows. The band has put the importance of DIY punk ethics at the forefront of their lyrics and are known for the particular attention they bring to their vegan...
  
  (9", 07/07, 800 black / 200 green, Clean Plate/Electric Human Project)

Compilations

• Inspiration From Forest (CD, ???, 11/03, Falling Leaves)
• The Emo Apocalypse (LP Compilation React With Protest Records - Germany May 2006 - 1070 copies)

External links

• Alone Records
• Funeral Diner's Myspace
• Funeral Diner lyrics