Ahren Stringer has teased a new deathcore band called Funerals, sharing a preview of debut single ‘Oxygen Thief’ following his departure from The Amity Affliction.
According to ThePRP, Stringer is joined by Dreamcult vocalist Jacob “J-Figure” Pedersen. The preview has appeared on Funerals’ Instagram account, @funeralsdeath, with the pair introducing the project through a snippet of the track.
For listeners who know Stringer through Amity’s clean vocal hooks, the deathcore billing marks a change from his best-known role. His melodic delivery helped shape the band’s sound alongside Joel Birch’s harsher vocals.
Funerals follows Self Checkout, the band he formed with former Volumes vocalist Gus Farias, also known as Yung Yogi. It gives Stringer another collaborator to work with as he continues making music outside the group he spent nearly two decades in.
The initial reports do not specify a release date for ‘Oxygen Thief’, so the Instagram clip remains a preview of what’s coming.
Watch The Funerals Teaser
Watch the Funerals teaser on Instagram
Stringer’s Work With Self Checkout
The Amity Affliction confirmed last February that Stringer would no longer tour or record with the band. By May that year, he was recording with Farias in Mexico City.
Speaking with us at the time about Self Checkout, Stringer described music that ranged from heavy tracks to love songs. He and Farias had first crossed paths at Warped Tour in 2013 and later shared a tour bus in Europe, giving their new partnership years of friendship to draw on.
“This first song we’re gonna drop is the heaviest thing I’ve ever been a part of,” Stringer said in last May’s interview.
The pair discussed making room for screaming, rapping and melodic passages, rather than deciding on a fixed sound before heading into the studio. Stringer also said he had put a separate collection of solo songs aside to concentrate on Self Checkout.
