Funeral Oration (band)
Funeral Oration was a melodic hardcore punk band from Amsterdam, Netherlands. They were active from 1982–83 until the end of the 1990s, putting out highly influential records on Dutch, German, British and American labels. Their singer was Peter Zirschky.
After listening to punk rock for a couple of years, Peter Zirschky decided to start a punk band. It was 1980 and they called themselves Art Protexion, probably because Zirschky's favourite band at the time was The Art Attacks. Drummer Ferry Fidom and bassplayer Mike de Veer joined him a year later in Last Warning. They soon changed their name to Funeral Oration, with no thought behind that, but broke up two months later.
In 1983, Zirschky placed an ad in the Dutch punk magazine Koekrand, saying: "Need a bassplayer, don't have to be good, but has to be pretty fast", recruiting William Steinhäuser to play the bass and forming the core of the revived Funeral Oration. The band went on to release numerous EPs, two cassette-only albums and 7 full-length LPs, the pinnacle of which was their debut album "Communion", and also toured the States three times during the 90s.
Discography
Demos
- There's Nothing Left To Laugh About cassette
- The Godsend cassette
EPs
- Shadowland 12"
- Survival 7"
- The More We Know 7"
- What Is It? 7"
- Stop For A Moment/Expanding 7" flexi
Albums
- Communion LP
- Funeral Oration LP
- Say No To Life LP
- Punk Rock Nation CD
- Funeral Oration CD/LP/cass
- Believer CD/LP/cass
- Survival CD/LP/cass
- Discography 1983 – 1998 2CD
Reissues
- Communion LP
- Communion/Shadowland CD
- The Godsend LP
- The Godsend LP
Compilations
- Raw War tape
- Holland Hardcore 2nd Attack tape
- Oration/Gepøpel split tape
- I've Got An Attitude Problem EP
- Remedy Records sampler 4-way split LP
- Welcome To Our Scene LP
- Punk SucksCD
- Chicago vs. Amsterdam CD/EP
- Hopelessly Devoted To You CD
- Hopelessly Devoted To You Too CD
- Take Action! CD
- Hopelessly Devoted To You, vol. 3 CD
- Holland Hardcore 2nd Attack Double LP