The Funeral Portrait
The Funeral Portrait is an American band from Atlanta that manages to turn theatrical emo, post-hardcore and dark rock into intense, conceptual songs. Their music is all about dark, emotional narratives with catchy, yet abrasive choruses that are ominously gothic sometimes.
With front man Lee Jennings as charismatic front man, the band takes you on a journey through the world of rock, a journey full of dark romanticism, mental struggles and liberating sing-a-longs. They sound as if My Chemical Romance, Ghost and Motionless in White started a Danse Macabre together. The Funeral Portrait set up their songs like short horror films: story-based, dramatic and with a strong focus on atmosphere. Riffs from metal and post-hardcore are combined with emo melodies, punk energy and gothic-like orchestration. There is a strong community surrounding the band of outsiders, emo kids, metal heads and the queer community, for whom The Funeral Portrait is a safe space that allows them to be themselves.
The Americans prove that emotional rock nowadays can still sound loud, honest and grandiose. Their song ‘Suffocate City’, taken from the album “Greetings From Suffocate City”, even made it to #1 in the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts. Live shows of The Funeral Portrait are like a dark rollercoaster: slightly scary and alienating at first, but addictive in the end.
