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Funeral for a Friend

Emo
Emo

Funeral for a Friend is a Emo act. Their sound grew out of Manic Street Preachers, Vision of Disorder, Poison the Well, Thursday and The Get Up Kids. Those roots explain a lot about how Funeral for a Friend arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Fightstar, Madina Lake, Matchbook Romance, InMe and LoveHateHero, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Thrice, The Used, Killswitch Engage, Rise Against and Story of the Year, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 48 connections around Funeral for a Friend, reaching back through Manic Street Preachers and forward to Thrice. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Funeral for a FriendManic Street PreachersVision of DisorderPoison the WellThursdayThe Get Up KidsIron MaidenBoysetsfireInstructionThriceThe UsedKillswitch EngageRise AgainstStory of the YearGuns N' RosesCancer BatsWe Are the OceanFightstarMadina LakeMatchbook RomanceInMeLoveHateHeroKids in Glass HousesReubenJimmy Eat World

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Funeral for a Friend connections

Funeral for a Friend grew out of Manic Street Preachers, Vision of Disorder, Poison the Well and Thursday, shares an orbit with Fightstar, Madina Lake, Matchbook Romance and InMe, went on to shape Thrice, The Used, Killswitch Engage and Rise Against. 48 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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