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{{Short description|Welsh post-hardcore band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Funeral for a Friend
| image           = Ffaf detroit.jpg
| landscape       = yes
| caption         = Funeral for a Friend performing in [[Detroit]] in 2009. Pictured are Matthew Davies-Kreye and Gavin Burrough.
| background      = group_or_band
| origin          = [[Bridgend, Wales]]
| years_active    = {{Start date|2001}}–2016, 2019–present
| genre           = [[Post-hardcore]],<ref name="allmusic page"/><ref name="BBC Biography"/><ref name="thrash mag welcome review"/> [[emo]],<ref name="allmusic page"/><ref name="thrash mag welcome review"/><ref name="NME Live 1"/> [[melodic hardcore]]<ref name="allmusic welcome review"/><ref name="DIS-C&V"/> 
| label           = Distiller, [[No Sleep Records|No Sleep]], End Hits, [[Good Fight Entertainment|Good Fight]], [[Mighty Atom Records|Mighty Atom]], [[Infectious Records|Infectious]], [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]], [[Ferret Music|Ferret]], Join Us, [[Roadrunner Records|Roadrunner]]
| associated_acts = [[Hondo Maclean]], [[Desecration (band)|Desecration]], [[Rise to Remain]], The Secret Show, Ghostlines, [[Extreme Noise Terror]], Goodtime Boys, Suns Of Thunder
| website         = {{URL|www.funeralforafriend.co.uk}}
| current_members = Kris Roberts <br />Gavin Burrough<br />Darran Smith<br />Richard Boucher<br />Ryan Richards
| past_members = Matthew Davies-Kreye<br />Gareth Davies<br />Kerry Roberts<br />Matthew Evans<br />Andi Morris<br />Johnny Phillips<br />Pat Lundy
}}

'''Funeral for a Friend''' are a Welsh [[post-hardcore]] band from [[Bridgend, Wales|Bridgend]], formed in 2001. The band's members are Kris Roberts (guitar, backing vocals), Gavin Burrough (guitar, vocals), Darran Smith (guitar), Richard Boucher (bass), and Ryan Richards (drums, vocals).

Funeral for a Friend's popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, ''[[Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation]]'' (2003). Achieving both a [[gold certification]] and three top-twenty singles in their home country, ''Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation'' is often acclaimed as one of the landmark emo records of the 2000s. ''[[Hours (Funeral for a Friend album)|Hours]]'' (2005) featured a similar musical style to their debut, but also showcased more melodic sensibilities, and ''[[Tales Don't Tell Themselves]]'' (2007) showed an evolution in Funeral for a Friend's musical style from that which defined their debut, as the group began to diverge from their use of [[screaming (music)|screaming]] vocals and [[post-hardcore]]-influenced guitars, favoring a more melodic rock influence. These albums achieved gold and silver sales certificates respectively in the UK.

Funeral for a Friend self-released their fourth album, ''[[Memory and Humanity]]'' (2008) through their short-lived record label ''Join Us'', the album arguably being their most eclectic to date. Following this the band tied themselves to other independent labels for ''[[Welcome Home Armageddon]]'' (2011)  ''[[Conduit (Funeral for a Friend album)|Conduit]]'' (2013), and ''[[Chapter and Verse (Funeral for a Friend album)|Chapter and Verse]]'' (2015), which showed the band returning to the heavier style of their earlier work. In September 2015, they announced their break-up and final tour in 2016. On 21 May 2016, they played their last performance to a sold-out [[The Forum, London|Forum]] in [[London]].

In October 2019, Funeral for a Friend reunited as a live band, initially for three benefit shows – two in [[Cardiff]] at the Cardiff University Student Union followed by one in [[London]] at Shepherd's Bush Empire. Following a planned performance at the canceled 2020 [[Download Festival]], they announced a headline UK tour for April 2021 playing songs from their first three albums. In December 2023 the band announced they would be returning to recording music, but without founding vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye.