Acclaimed Doom Metal Act Divide and Dissolve Reveals Their 1st Ever Song w/ Vocals: “Grief”

Divide and Dissolve Reveal “Grief” Single/Video Marking the 1st time Takiaya Reed lends vocals to a song by the instrumental doom metal act Available across platforms here Insatiable LP due out April 18 via Bella Union Insatiable album pre-order "Like waking up from a vivid dream" - The Guardian "as potent and unshakable as the power structures it seeks to dismantle" - Pitchfork “sprawling compositions, whose wordless depths convey a deep, raw emotional force that's difficult to describe and even harder to resist … work like hers still seems like magic to me” - Salvo, Kim Kelly "music that weighs, and ultimately defies, society's stacked odds" - Bandcamp (Album of the Day) Singles: “Monolithic” “Provenance” “Grief” Credit: Brandon McClain @eathumans Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, Divide and Dissolve will release their new album, Insatiable, on April 18 via Bella Union. The 10 track album runs the gamut of doom metal - from the ear-splitting depths of lead single “Monolithic”, to contemplative, softer moments on the aptly titled song “Grief”, released today. Like all of Divide and Dissolve’s music, Insatiable is almost entirely instrumental. While the album’s sheer grandiosity represents an evolution in Divide and Dissolve's sound, it also marks the very first time that Takiaya has ever lent vocals to a D//D song. On “Grief” her distorted voice echoes atop a vibrating bass tone, repeating the lyrics: “I don't know what I'm supposed to do/ I'm so lonely without you.” Takiaya explains, “The voice is such a mysterious  instrument. This album feels different, and I wanted to honour that”. Watch / Share: “Grief” video Video director Sepi Mashiahof shares, “The music video for “Grief” is an ode to the feelings of empowerment, resistance, and sadness that Divide and Dissolve weaves into our bodies. It’s an expressionist diary made up of dissonant and revelatory memories. Grief eclipses everything around us, innocuously lingering in the functional movements of our daily lives, then aggressively literal in the reflective silence behind our eyes. Grief is inherent to our existence, knowing that a better world exists for all of us and its potential is boundless, yet we’re made to suffer the atrocities of greed and exploitation instead. We can honor Grief as a passage of life, but we must resist the forces that impose it as a numbness to injustice.” The album title Insatiable, came to Takiaya in a dream. She had a vision of a better world, one that gelled seamlessly with the optimism of her take on heavy music: “I saw and have felt the impact of people committing great acts of harm, causing pain in a never ending cycle. I have also seen and felt the strength and power of people committing great acts of love,” she says. For Takiaya, this is what it means to be “insatiable”; it’s the way we choose either a path of destruction or one of compassion, and experience it to its fullest. “It’s an album about love, and it feels important to experience this, now more than ever.” Divide and Dissolve's music is an acknowledgement of the dispossession that occurs due to colonial violence, it honours ancestors, opposes white supremacy and calls for indigenous sovereignty. Already legends on the international doom metal scene, the new album is an evolution of sound and intricacy. Strapped with thunderstorms of crashing cymbals, crunchy feedback, stomach-churning riffs and neo-classical inflections, the new collection delves into the idea of freedom through impermanence and destruction vs compassion, an urgent call to imagine a better world before it’s too late. Listen to it, digest it, and become insatiable. Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | Website Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music