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Förest
Förest is an Irish rock/metal band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 2020. The band’s lineup consists of founding members; Barra Donovan (Guitar, Vocals, Bass) and Conor Nugent (Percussion). Förest began work on their debut album “Purple River” until it came to a halt when the COVID-19 cases began to rise again in Ireland.

Previous to Förest, Donovan and Nugent were in a short-lived band called Mud Crab. When Mud Crab disbanded the two musicians decided to form their own band. Mud Crab does not have any output. Förest began to write songs and was hoping to play shows in 2020, this would never happen due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the period spent distance from each other, the two musicians wrote separately leading to problems when they were reunited in 2021. Nugent’s songs were more fast paced and influenced by Pop Punk bands such as Blink-182 and Green Day. Donovan’s, on the other hand, were slower, darker and were influenced by the 90s Seattle bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana.

In May of 2021, Nugent left the band to pursue his own career whilst still playing with Donovan in a more intense Punk influenced band. To this day, Donovan and Nugent play in this nameless punk duo.

Donovan will continue to work under the name Förest until the release of Purple River in October of 2021. He said to a friend “I’ll probably get another guy to fill in on the drums, same with bass, hopefully one can sing so we can do the harmonies live. That would be deadly!” He also said “If the new lineup gets along, we might do a second record, probably more heavy that Purple River but I think that would be cool. Who knows what’ll happen, but hopefully we’ll get some sort of mainstream attention.” Purple River will be released in October of 2021.