[Cover photo credit to Brandon McClain @eathumans]

Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, Doom Metal band Divide and Dissolve will release their new album, Insatiable, on April 18, 2025 via Bella Union. One of the more contemplative, softer songs on the album is the track “Grief“, out now, alongside a video.

Like all of Divide and Dissolve’s music, Insatiable is almost entirely instrumental. While the album 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.

Takiaya Reed explains:

The voice is such a mysterious  instrument. This album feels different, and I wanted to honour that.

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.

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.”