DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE SHARE NEW SINGLE “GRIEF“
MARKING THE FIRST TIME TAKIAYA REED HAS LENT VOCALS
TO A D//D SONG
TAKEN FROM UPCOMING ALBUM INSATIABLE
TO BE RELEASED VIA BELLA UNION ON 18TH APRIL
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 run 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”.
The director of the music video, Sepi Mashiahof, adds;
“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.”
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “GRIEF” 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. 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.
Divide and Dissolve live dates (so far):
18-05-2025 Desertfest London – London
30-08-2025 Supersonic Festival – Birmingham
Insatiable album cover
PRESS FOR INSATIABLE SO FAR:
“The band effortlessly combine heaviness, beauty, rage and hope in a manner that suits sticky-floored rock clubs full of metalheads in Black Sabbath shirts as well as arts spaces or concert halls.” – LOUDER SOUND
“Dynamic novel vibrations from a newly Bella Union-rehoused drone duo who easily disprove several slices of (outmoded) received wisdom about metal, demonstrating the genre’s robust framework for those wishing to oppose patriarchal and colonial power structures.” – THE QUIETUS
“so heavy, intense and black you can see the carbon nanotubes collide”
– OUTSIDE LEFT MAG
“Her haunting saxophone notes collide with a cacophony of cymbal smashes and gargantuan riffs to create a sonic prayer” – GET IN HER EARS
“… heavy in a way that presents doom metal and neo-classical experimentalism as though they’ve always been bedfellows.” – DEVOLUTION MAG
REVISIT THE VIDEO FOR “PROVENANCE” BELOW:
