How to Survive a Funeral

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How to Survive a Funeral
Make Them Suffer - How to Survive a Funeral.png
Studio album by
Released19 June 2020 (2020-06-19)
Recorded2019–2020
Genre
Length35:14
Label
  • Rise (Worldwide)
  • Greyscale (Australia & New Zealand)
Producer
Make Them Suffer chronology
Worlds Apart
(2017)
How to Survive a Funeral
(2020)
Singles from How to Survive a Funeral
  1. "Erase Me"
    Released: 19 March 2020 [3]
  2. "Drown with Me"
    Released: 13 April 2020 [4]
  3. "Soul Decay"
    Released: 21 May 2020 [5]

How to Survive a Funeral is the fourth studio album by Australian metalcore band Make Them Suffer. The album was released digitally on 19 June 2020, and had a physical release date three weeks later on 10 July. [6] It was produced by Drew Fulk and Jeff Dunne. The album's release date was changed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] This is also the last album to feature keyboardist/vocalist Booka Nile. Metal Hammer named it as the 36th best metal album of 2020. [1]

Contents

Track listing

How to Survive a Funeral track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Step One"1:57
2."Falling Ashes"2:41
3."Bones"3:01
4."Drown with Me"4:02
5."Erase Me"3:44
6."Soul Decay"3:43
7."Fake Your Own Death"2:54
8."How to Survive a Funeral"4:26
9."The Attendant"4:33
10."That's Just Life"4:08
Total length:35:14

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [8]

Make Them Suffer

Production Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for How to Survive a Funeral
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [9] 17

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