The Funeral Portrait Score A #1 With Ice Nine Kills Vocalist

ByMark Leader

The Funeral Portrait is #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated November 16th) with “Suffocate City,” featuring Spencer Chamas, the lead vocalist for the Heavy Metal band Ice Nine Kills.  

The Funeral Portrait formed in ’14 and currently consists of Lee Jennings (vocals), Cody Weissinger (guitar), Caleb Freihaut (guitar), Robert Weston (bass) and Homer Umbanhower (drums). Their music has been described as a blend of emotional Hardcore, Punk, and musical theater,

“Suffocate City” is the Atlanta-based band’s first #1 on any Billboard chart. It’s also a first for Chamas. Ice Nine Kills’ best Mainstream Rock Airplay showing was “A Grave Mistake,” which hit #9 in ’19.

“Suffocate City” is the lead single from “Greetings From Suffocate City,” which was released on September 13th. The song ends Linkin Park’s five week run at the top on the Mainstream Rock survey with their comeback single, “The Emptiness Machine.”

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