Funeral Diner was a screamo band, formed in 1998 in Half Moon Bay, CA, they split in 2008.

Their style is true to the screamy, chaotic, melodic emotional hardcore of the later part of the '90s. Stylistically, their screamo elements are akin to artists such as The Spirit Of Versailles, Joshua Fit For Battle, Pg.99, The Khayembii Communique,The Saddest Landscape (who they have shared a split with) and Saetia.

Their style could be described as "epic" in parts, due to the long buildups featured in some songs, and because the length of their songs is in contrast to the "emoviolence" style that was also commonplace around the late '90s. This post-rock influence places them closer to several contemporaries such as Envy, Daïtro, Sed Non Satiata, Aussitôt Mort, City of Caterpillar, Pianos Become the Teeth and Heaven in Her Arms; all bands that have infused their expressionist hardcore rooted sound with the melancholic and grandiose atmosphere of post-rock.

However, there is a definite element of "chaotic" hardcore to their sound, in large part due to the drumming of Mathew Bajda, who previously played with pioneering hardcore emo band Portraits Of Past, a band many credit with both the advent of the "screamo" sound and being the first band to be described with that term. Funeral Diner have toured with many notable hardcore bands including Envy and La Quiete.

They have released two full lengths:
Difference Of Potential and The Underdark as well as several splits, compilations and EPs.

Difference of Potential was far more violent and visceral, still containing emoviolence moments mixed with hints of the sound they achieved with The Underdark in the longer songs. The Wicked EP was stylistically closer to the debut. Then with The Underdark, they anted up the post-rock influence whilst still retaining some of their past aggression but it was far more melancholic and morose. The Swept Under EP from that same year was a continuation of that sound as were Bag of Holding and Doors Open, their last release before disbanding. Funeral Diner's music remains as a timeless and iconic example of how far the emo genre can go and as a paragon of how beautiful it can get to mix disparate genres.

Members of Funeral Diner can now be found in those bands : ...Who Calls So Loud, Lemonade, Sterling Says. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.