DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE ANNOUNCE INSATIABLE
TO BE RELEASED VIA BELLA UNION ON 18TH APRIL
SINGLE “PROVENANCE” OUT NOW
Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, Divide and Dissolve has announced her new album, Insatiable, due out April 18 via Bella Union. Already legends on the international doom metal scene, the new album is an evolution of sound and intricacy. Over the 10 tracks, it runs the gamut of doom metal, building upon the genre’s trademark sludgy guitars and thundering drums with Takaiya’s deft and wondrous saxophone.
Today Divide and Dissolve share lead single “Provenance”, a powerful and dynamic composition that evokes the spirit of hope and possibility. Takiaya shares, “Provenance is an examination of where things begin and how they can end.”
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “PROVENANCE” BELOW:
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. 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.
Insatiable album cover
“Like waking up from a vivid dream” – THE GUARDIAN
“Systemic gains a depth that’s rare for a largely instrumental record. After a while, it seems 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
“‘If I am denied/ The simple gentleness/ Of existing.’ That’s Systemic’s methodology, in a way: pushing against the structural undercurrents suggested by the album title, through music that weighs, and ultimately defies, society’s stacked odds” – BANDCAMP (ALBUM OF THE DAY)
“A divining rod for the dispossessed” – METAL HAMMER
“Achieving such a visceral emotional affect through their music is remarkable” – LOUD AND QUIET
“For as bleak and harrowing as Systemic can be, there’s a strong sense of hope burning at its core” – THE QUIETUS
“The best avant garde record with true intention this year” – VEIL OF SOUND
“Divide And Dissolve work in this instrumental protest doom, full of emotional resonance and loud dirge riffs” – METAL STORM
“Pushing the limits of what an instrumental band can be, and what they can stand for” – ECHOES AND DUST
Number 1 Doom Metal album of the year – CVLT NATION