Thank you for sharing your passion and gift of music with us musically challenged fans! I'm lucky I can play a radio and it's because of creative people like yourself, my ups, downs and in betweens of life have a soundtrack! God speed in future endeavors!
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An absolutely gorgeous farewell of acoustic guitar that celebrates the mountains and the wonderful music Chase gave us through this project. Farewell and much love Deafest.
Over the last 12 years and 30 releases, Deafest has taken many forms, styles, members, and instruments, but one thing has remained constant: the support from the fans. As Deafest draws to a close, and other projects begin, I can only look back on the years with extreme fondness. Hearing that some of my music made a small difference in someone’s day or some sort of connection without even using words means everything to me. I’ve met many lifelong friends through the band, so it left me musically and socially fulfilled.
I started the band in college as a different version of myself. Now, after multiple jobs, multiple moves, getting married, raising pets, and raising two kids, I find myself with similar yet slightly tangential passions and motivations. Deafest as a project seems to have completed. I set out to make black metal about the beautiful Rocky Mountains and now other bands are doing it much better than I ever could. They will climb that next mountain, they will bask in glorious alpenglow, they will trudge from cairn to cairn, they will battle high winds on the ridges, and they will make songs of vast mountainous landscapes from the summits.
Through all the years I’ve tried to keep Deafest honest. In that spirit I give you the final Deafest release. It was recorded in one take, with one mic, and, somehow, on the first take. It’s not perfect, but no good-bye is ever perfect. There’s always room for more to be said. And for those fans that always asked me to play live, well, this is pretty much live. This is how I would play if I were in front of you. Over the last 6 months I had planned a much longer composition, but after much trimming to leave only my absolute favorite sections I ended up with this: “A Mountain Farewell”. I really hope you enjoy it, and one final time thank you for all your support.
Recorded by Chase Ambler on 2/15/2020
Mastered by Paul Ravenwood
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Since the second full-length, Deafest plays an instrumental ode to the beauty and awe of nature (mostly Colorado nature). Black Metal is the base of the music....more
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On ne frappe pas un homme à terre : c'est ce que dit la règle mais NONE a déjà prouvé qu'il ne les suivait pas et si son album éponyme retirait toute perspective de béatitude spirituelle, Life has gone on long enough, son deuxième opus, nous interdit l'accès au bonheur terrestre. La vie n'a aucune substance et la production plus distante le confirme. Le DSBM s'empare de textures sonores blues, mettant en relief une dépression urbaine. Les cris partent en fumées : ne restent que les pleurs... Jordan Vauvert
supported by 15 fans who also own “A Mountain Farewell”
After listening to Ysyry Mollvün, listening to Downfall of Nur was urgent and turned out to be one of the best decisions I have made in quite some time: Umbras de Barbagia is simply magisterial; the atmosphere can hardly be compared to anything else. There is a deep, palpable connection to nature imbueing each very fibre of this record. The amalgamation of black metal and folk elements is done with a high intuition for detail and class, resulting in a highly immersive experience. Wonderful. David Fischer