Background
Explaining the album's title, vocalist Matt Davies-Kreye toldTrack listing
Bonus tracks
Critical reception
''Welcome Home Armageddon'' received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Rocksound"Welcome Home Armageddon is an extremely satisfying album, for fans old and new. Ferocious and beautiful - Funeral for a Friend sound more like themselves than they have done in years." MusicOMH (3/5) "Armageddon is a sop to the disaffected fans of FFAF's pomp, and in seeking to recapture their ardour it tries too hard to pander to their needs. And from the few tracks that evidence what could have been, that's a shame." Bring The Noise (8/10) "...although there are heavy elements on this, the Welsh favourites' fifth album, the real theme running throughout the record is that of a pop-punk masterpiece." SputnikMusic (4/5) "Simply put, this is Funeral for a Friend's best album." Absolutepunk.net (87%) "Top to bottom this album feels like a classic; a show stopper. No thrills, no cheap tricks and gimmicks. Where so many bands attempt to go back to their roots and fall short, Funeral for a Friend find themselves back in a comfort zone and pushing themselves to even better heights." Allmusic.com (3.5/5) "Welcome Home Armageddon has something that's missing from all the cookie-cutter screamo albums that have flooded the market in the 21st century: an honest to God sense of pop/rock craftsmanship."Recording personnel
;Funeral For a Friend * Matthew Davies-Kreye – lead vocals * Kris Coombs-Roberts – guitar, backing vocals * Gavin Burrough – guitar, backing vocals * Ryan Richards – drums, screaming * Richard Boucher – bass guitar ;Additional personnel * Romesh Dodangoda – production, mixing * Shawn Joseph – mastering * Rob Thomas – assistant engineer * Rianne Rowlands - Album Artwork - Illustrations * Ryan Waring – Logo Design * Jamie Telford, Danny Bugler & Rhodri Jones Gang vocals on "Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don't"Release history
Chart performance
References
{{Authority control 2011 albums Funeral for a Friend albums Albums produced by Romesh Dodangoda