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Metal Stare Down

by Dyr Faser

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1.
Tigers Run 05:38
As soon as I was called upon I’m where a place I’d never been The way inside is here and gone A fading light to set a scene And while we have us so much fun While we watch your tigers run There’s nothing more that I want than I want you to see me You seem fine Almost sane As my worry haunts ya You seem fine Almost sane You seem fine Almost sane I move onto my second song You said to rest I’ll take it easy But even still I’m happy here I never meant to be impressed And while we have some time for us While we keep your spirits up There’s nothing more that I want than I want you to see me
2.
I was seeing it all I was listening It will always be me I was waiting it all I was whispering It will always be me Caught in every word Always have a turn In where you want it Come Into The Light I was making it up I was half way in It will always be me I was brave and enough I was favoring It will always be me
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Sparkle shade yes it’s useless, don’t get out of bed Metal stare down deep solitude fets that snake in your head Call me clouds I wish you could answer instead Soft complaints, yes it’s true, see I can do nothing right fat hand saint knows the answer but the hair loves a bite Killing off the one who answers the night Giving in, no one cares you feel empty inside Give up, you weren’t chosen No there’s no place to hide Let go you know I can keep It Alive
4.
I see the Only Others run Hiding in front of everyone Hold our reservations close Silent as we carefully approach We were curious We followed in our own way Some fear nothing And they know You can show them And they know You can throw them Very far These unchained words Will say what you want to say And spill no blood For that which has no name

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A whisper on the wind on a hot summer night. An ephemeral voice telling a secret to an ear that barely listens. Somehow the words calm the ear, everything’s going to be okay. Now just let go and drift off. Local band Dyr Faser’s new EP Metal Stare Down is that voice on the wind. Eric Boomhower and Amelia May bring their best version of an introspective night spent on a roof.
A real standout is Come Into The Light. Starting off with slow polyrhythmic drums after an explosion, some kind of rebirth in a post-nuclear wasteland blanketed in sulphurous clouds. The low static drone and guitars that seem to span its infinite reach. The vocals bring a shamanistic quality, the way they beckon the listener “Come into the light” much like that of the bomb that brought this land low. Boomhower laments, ”I was brave and enough, I was favoring, It will always be me”. It’s forlorn and deeply gothic. A pensive, melancholic mood stays throughout the song. The light may have once seemed like the only option. Now, after time has passed, what did the light really bring other than ultimate destruction?
Sparkle Shade is also fantastic. May’s ethereal voice is forlorn over something as reverb drenched instruments blend with her woes, “Soft complaints, yes it’s true, see I can do nothing right”. However she may have done something very wrong as the whole piece gives an energy of true regret behind the rather dreamy veneer. It’s a death song, a murder ballad, but it’s far more uplifting. A sweetness and strange warmth emanates from her vocals which come in waves. The tragedy is passed and this is the recovery.
Metal Stare Down is strangely gothic, blending the atmospheric approaches of bands like This Mortal Coil with a beautiful psych sound. It’s both calming and dangerous, equal parts fear and love. It’s got a hell of a lot of charm for that. The EP is wonderful and short enough to be experienced in less than a half-hour. Even if you already have too much new music, this is certainly a must-listen.
- Michael Conlon, Boston Hassle

Giacomo Leopardi, most famous italian poet born in Recanati wrote in his "Infinito"i And when I hear the wind rustling through the trees
I compare its voice to the infinite silence.
And eternity occurs to me, and all the ages past,
And the present time, and its sound of Dyr Faser.
- Massimo Bonino, Genova Italy

A big hug to Amelia and Eric! What a great performance! Definitely one of the most interesting gigs ever in our venue. Thank you so much!
- Circolo Arci Orchidea, Santa Margherita Ligure Italy

Here's Boston's outlandish tandem DYR FASER with new magnetic EP 'METAL STARE DOWN'...
DYR FASER just released their 4th EP titled METAL STARE DOWN. Compared with their previous collaborations this 4-track extended play sounds more relaxing, more reposeful, more buoyant. Overall I experience an oriental, entrancing and hypnotic feel that activates one’s subconscious imagination. The pair’s sensitive duet vocals (except for Sparkle Shade”, only sung by May) add a romantic touch to the whole sonic picture turning the magnetic encounter into intimate reveries for a chill out night with your lover. Capture the riveting mood right here…
- turnupthevolume.blog

DYR FASER ... performing a hearty set in Somerville on Feb 5. Headlining in a cool setting w/ appreciative audience.
Great to hear new songs from "Hauntingly Beyond", at times delicate ... at other times dense (or both?) layers of interwoven guitars & drum tracks & more guitars & synth-sequencers & voice with novel syncopation (proverbial Scott Joplin of the electro psychedelic ambient drone rock motif). More memorably catchy hooks (hello "Deep Well") this time w/ heavier (if not at times meatier) accompaniment. A nice compliment when paired w/ the hauntingly beautiful vocals from Amelia on songs from "Beat a Minute".
And hey ... this evening brings a Beatles cover disguised within a Dyr Faser interpretation!
- David D. Smith

Dyr Faser's material is hard to pin down to any orthodox way of thinking. It has a free-flowing nature where shoegaze, dream-pop, darkwave and psychedelic dynamics all seem to interplay.
- radiowigwam.co.uk

"This band is hard to pin to a genre and even harder to nail to a style ..." --- yes, I struggle with this myself when describing the show to others ... and frankly that sorta adds to the appealing mystery of the sounds.
- David D. Smith

Dyr Faser - A thing of pensive beat driven beauty...techy ethereal - in a good way. Love these folks a lot.
- Linda Jung

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released March 27, 2018

Eric Boomhower > vocals, guitar, synth, Casio
Amelia May > vocals, guitar

All songs written by Eric Boomhower & Amelia May.
Recorded by Eric Boomhower.
Cover drawing by Amelia May.

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