Funeral Speech was fouded in 1997 in Tver city by four experienced musicians: Dmitry "Chiff" Semochkin (guitars, vocals), Oleg "Korps" Emelyanov (guitars), Nikolay "Buc" Zalkin (bass) and Dimosthenis "Sthen" Kiskinis (drums). The main reason of this band's foundation was a try to perform the personal death-metal-vision of every band's member in one project which was not possible in their previous bands. The style of Funeral Speech's music was influenced by different metal bands from all-over-the-world such as At The Gates, Sadist, Cynic, Death, Vader, Grip. Inc, Hypocrisy, etc. and it's continuing to progress and develop with every new song but still staying a display of different sides of melodic death-metal. The band has a great stage-experience and was a member of a lot of fests and tour-concerts.