The Funeral Portrait - 'Evergreen' Video & single review
- Keely Naylon
- Jun 29, 2025
- 2 min read
The Funeral Portrait returns with a heart-felt video dedicated to capturing their moments of success as a band.
It shows the band growing from small venues with scattered crowds, to sell-out shows supporting the likes of Ice Nine Kills.
‘Evergreen’ is a song from their recently released 24-track album Greetings from Suffocate City - From Beyond the Abyss: Deluxe Edition. The album features collaborations with the likes of Ivan Moody from Five Finger Death Punch and Lilith Czar.
Lee Jennings, lead singer and songwriter for The Funeral Portrait said of the song.
‘The song speaks to universal and painful truths - that love is the source of all suffering, and the bittersweet feelings that coincide with it’.
Their music video depicts those bittersweet and anxious feelings surrounding love well.
We see their early shows with empty space in the back of the room, playing with the local barflies, awkward first stumbles into their later iconic fashion, and heart-warming home-video style footage in small green-rooms.
Then, we see them grow before our eyes.
The video transitions to streams of people lining up for autographs, crowds overflowing in venues bigger than ever before, festival crowds screaming along. The band appears confident, familiar, and having the time of their lives.
It’s a music video that will warm the heart and test the tear-ducts of any fan, new and old, to see their rapid rise to success and the support they’ve received along the way.
It feels like an emotional nod to the feelings that rise in early fans when their secret local band breaks through to the world and suddenly they’re no longer your little secret.
‘Evergreen’ as a song feels like nursing a heart-ache.
The lyrics are mournful and dejected, presenting an idea of stagnation, of fighting a battle that you and everyone around you will lose yet you fight it everyday, of craving a love you know will hurt and wanting it anyway.
Lee Jennings' thoughts on the lyrics and track itself continued.
‘The lyrics come from an extremely personal place and are set against a melancholy, stripped-back track that helps accent one of our most emotional hymns to date.’
Musically, the track is much more reserved compared to other tracks on the album, and matches the somber tone of the lyrics yet the familiar emo-rock genre holds true.
‘Evergreen’ contains some of the key elements of an excellent emo-rock ballad found in the likes of My Chemical Romance and The Used with their hard-hitting drums, powerful guitar riffs, and melodic sorrowful vocals.
The Funeral Portrait’s deluxe album seems to be a gift to their fans.
It comes with an extensive track-list, a comic covering the rich lore of the album, art-prints, and most importantly a clear dedication to giving back to their fans who have stood by them from pubs, to clubs, to major festival sets.
Stream The Funeral Portrait's Greetings from Suffocate City from beyond the abyss deluxe album now.
