It was in the autumn of 1995, that FUNERAL PROCESSION were gathered. A few gigs were played, the debutdemo "Doom" released, when in autumn 1999 the original line-up broke up, leaving Count Gothmog who had handled the bass until then as the head and the obvious driving force of the band and who now took over the vocals as well as the songwriting. Going through various further line-up changes throughout the years, the band nevertheless released a split-7" with the German band Encomium, the second demo "Solar Eclipse" and after Count Gothmog's ten month stay in Wales, the accordingly titled EP "Legion Cymru" in 2004.
In 2005, the band finally found new session members in Alboîn and Marlek - to complete the line-up that also included Satyrus Sancti and Duke Hellfire who had joined some years earlier - who made it possible that FUNERAL PROCESSION finally were once again able to rape some stages in 2005, among others the one of the Under The Black Sun-festival, Germany's biggest Black Metal-event. In the summer of that year, the band at last began to record their untitled debutalbum as well as the mini-album "Schmerz Aus Licht" (which at first had been planned to be released as a split-album). The mini-album and especially the debut album achieved extraordinary good responses. Starting with that particular album, FUNERAL PROCESSION finally had also found a new permanent home: the German label VÁN. In 2007, the band started recording their newest opus entitled "The Red Vine Litanies". These were originally meant to be part of a Multi-Split-Vinyl-Box on Ván, but as this project never became reality, the label offered the band to release it as a separate Mini-CD. This new effort, clad in a marvellous gatefold-digipack, finally saw the light of the day in July 2008. "The Red Vine Litanies" is an anthem dedicated to the spirit in wine and the beast in man it unleashes. Gloria in vino spirito!

From the very beginning, FUNERAL PROCESSION have to be viewed as deeply rooted in what the Black Metal-cult stood for in the beginning of the 1990s. Deeply rooted in a time when bedroom Black Metal-bands, life-affirming NSBM, backstabbing through internet message boards or collecting friends on Myspace were unknown but without losing themselves in idealized nostalgia. Therefore: FUNERAL PROCESSION are to be considered far from any affiliation to neo or German Black Metal.
Sinning in wine is holie!
(July MMVIII)

Source : Official website