Funeral For A Friend release their latest opus, 'Chapter And Verse,' through Roadrunner Records. The first track from the record is the visceral "You've Got A Bad Case of The Religions."

Funeral For A Friend is one of the last remaining bastions of the British hardcore scene that exploded into the mainstream at the turn of the century. They are veterans in many ways, but fourteen years after their formation the band still packs as much punch and purpose as they started with, if not more. Chapter and Verse is the band's seventh full-length record and a natural follow-on from the confidence and conviction displayed on previous album Conduit.

Recorded in two weeks with Lewis Johns (Gnarwolves, Goodtime Boys), Chapter and Verse is a classic Funeral For A Friend effort in the spectacular way it melds gruff attitude with melodic choruses, but it also happens to be one of the most sonically diverse records the band has ever made.

Flitting frantically between relentless blast-beats and heavy, discordant riffs to the kind of guitar lines you would tend to expect from Midwestern bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Chapter and Verse is yet another statement that says Funeral For A Friend is not a band that can be placed in a box.

Opening with vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye's personalised off the hinges screaming, one of the defining features of the album is its unapologetically political lyrical content. From wealth inequality to feminism, the lyrics are a far cry from the band's early material and display a sense of growth that can only come from experience.