Critical Reception

The critical reaction to the album has been generally favourable:

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."

Punktastic (4.5/5)
"If there are favourites to pick, Old Hymns, Broken Foundation and Owls (Are Watching) are early frontrunners - but overall Welcome Home Armageddon is a beautifully structured joy to listen to and a reminder of everything Funeral For A Friend do so well.

Mass Movement"This album is not a return to 'old Funeral for a Friend'. Yes, it has the aggression of some of their earlier material, but this aggression is backed by some huge melodies, intricate instrumentals and great vocals. This is not a band looking back. This is a band looking and moving forward. This is a band in the best form of its existence who have written their best album thus far."

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."

Daily Dischord (9/10)
"It'd be easy to say 'here is Casually Dressed Part 2' but that would be horrifically short sighted. Welcome Home Armageddon places Funeral for a Friend's back catalogue in the Large Hadron Collider and atomizes it, leaving its imprint writ large in their legacy for all to see.

ILikeMusic"Welcome Home Armageddon is the sound of Funeral For A Friend re-exploring the raucous spirit of their earliest work, but investing it with the melodic lessons that they've learnt in the intervening period. Their riffs are as furious and intricate as they have ever been and their choruses as catchy. Whether the end result fits into the landscape of metal music as it lies today is debatable, but it should leave the vast majority of Funeral For A Friend's fans very happy indeed."

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."

Red Hot Velvet (5/5)
"After deserting their roots with 2007's Tales Don't Tell Themselves and then offering glimpses of excellence with its follow-up, Memory and Humanity, Funeral For A Friend have completely revitalised their sound with this phenomenal record."

Rocksins (4.5/5)
"Welcome Home Armageddon' has more than enough balls and bravado to satisfy old and new fans alike. And for those of you sitting on the fence, prepare to be knocked off it. For a band that could quite easily have called it a day, this is an album seeped in euphoria, passion and optimism. It embodies the spirit of a band who are truly back at the top of their game. Welcome back, indeed."

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
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• Kris Coombs-Roberts – guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Gavin Burrough – guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Ryan Richards – drums, screaming
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• Richard Boucher – bass guitar
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Additional personnel

• Romesh Dodangoda – production
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  , mixing
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• Shawn Joseph – mastering
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• Rob Thomas – assistant engineer
• Ryan Waring – artwork & Logo Design

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number	Source
United Kingdom	March 14, 2011	Distiller Records	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	DTLBM006X
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	March 15, 2011	Good Fight Music			author=|date=|work=|publisher= themusicshop.com.au|accessdate=20 March 2011}}
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	March 18, 2011

Chart performance

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Australia Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	98
Scottish Albums Chart	37
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	33
UK Rock Albums	2