Six years into its existence, members of Welsh post-hardcore band Funeral for a Friend [ tickets ] are still amazed by the crowds that pack their shows abroad. Take, for instance, a recent trip to Bangkok, Thailand.

"We went there just after our last American tour," said guitarist Kris Coombs-Roberts in an interview with LiveDaily. "We had never been there and we didn't know what to expect. It didn't seem like a record-buying place.

"We go there and went to the venue ... It's a pretty big venue 1,500 to 2,000 people. We were like, 'Right. This is a huge place. There's going to be hardly anybody here.' But it was sold out and it's insane to go that far away from where you live and have people come and watch you. It is quite humbling and insane. Singapore and Bangkok were very, very good the last time we went."

Now, the band is traveling the world again, this time in support of its latest album, "Memory and Humanity." Coombs-Roberts said he feels the set, with its harsh/screaming vocals and acerbic riffs, fits "comfortably" in with Funeral for a Friend's catalog.

"It's a combination of all the other things we've done," Coombs-Roberts aid. "We went back to basics when we recorded this album. Instead of going into a professional rehearsal space and being in a soloist room miles apart from one another, throwing ideas out and jamming them, we wanted to write the album in Wales, record it in Wales and do everything at home.

"We ended up writing the album in [drummer] Ryan's [Richards] house in the living room. We were in a boxed room, chucking ideas out and playing. The record, I feel, has a lot more energy to it for the fact that we were in close quarters and everybody could see each other. It falls between everything we've done so far. It covers all the bases but it ties them up to individual ideas."

After writing "Memory and Humanity," the group moved on to the studio of Romesh Dodangoda, a producer and longtime friend of the band.

"He's only 23 years old," Coombs-Roberts said. "We heard loads of stuff that he was putting out at his studio. It was really good. It was a different environment. There was none of the 'getting to know the producer' period. It was quite interesting. It had a much more relaxed vibe about it.

"We felt like we were on schedule or ahead of schedule, instead of battering to get it over. We'd finish at 5 in the evening or 6 as opposed to when we've done other records and, like, you get up in the studio for 10 and you don't leave until 2 a.m. It was a completely different vibe about it all."

The original plan called for taking a break to write music and then pen an EP, just to tide over fans until the full length would be completed. That soon changed.

""In the six weeks we took off, we ended up writing eight songs," Coombs-Roberts explained. "We were like, 'We're 2/3 of the way to having the record. Many people prefer to have a full-length album than to have a four-track EP.' Instead of releasing an EP, we knuckled down and carried on working to have the album finished and get the album out."

In its native United Kingdom, Funeral for a Friend has been a phenomenon, scoring three Top 20 singles, a gold-certified debut album, headlining the second stage of the Reading/Leeds Festival and winning Kerrang!'s Best Newcomer award. Here in the states, the band has received reams of critical praise while growing their ever-increasing fanbase via tours alongside such like-minded outfits as Linkin Park, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed and Cambria, From Autumn To Ashes and Atreyu.

After the completion last month of a tour with The Sleeping, Funeral for a Friend is shooting once again to head overseas.

"It's amazing," Coombs-Roberts said. "We've been to places I never thought I'd ever get the opportunity to go to. Being in America is a big deal. Being in as many states as we have, it's quite a big thing. It's so different, each state, how different the people are from state to state. Some of the states are sizes of countries. Like Florida is the same size as the British Isles, I believe. That's four countries in the UK It's cool to go into places, going to Japan, to Australia, to Singapore, to Thailand. We're going to Jakarta on this tour. We've been to Russia. It's been quite an experience to travel everywhere in about six years."