For years, Greet Death’s music got better as their personal lives became more hopeless. The “suicide summer” incantations of their 2017 doomgaze debut, “Dixieland”, were downright cheery compared to the existential crises lining “New Hell“, the Michigan band’s heavier, more poignantly pretty 2019 follow-up, which situated them at the forefront of the nascent shoegaze renaissance.
“Die In Love” is a beautifully melancholic album by Greet Death. The band’s dizzying melodic nature shines throughout its nine tracks, featuring delicate acoustic shimmers, somber percussion, and high-volume post-everything fuzz. Greet Death with their third album, “Die In Love“, due out June 27th via Deathwish. It’s the follow-up to 2019’s “New Hell” and their 2022 EP “New Low”, and they recorded it in Harper Boyhtari’s parents’ basement in Davisburg, Michigan.
The album includes Greet Death’s 2024 single “Same But Different Now,” and they’ve shared another new single, “Country Girl,” which Harper says is about “identity, alienation, and detachment. It’s like trying to solve a murder mystery and finding out you were the killer the whole time.” Watch the video, directed by Kelly Ngo,
On the smouldering “Punishment Existence,” Logan Gaval sang about coming home from work just to crawl into bed and stare at the ceiling contemplating death. His co-vocalist/guitarist, Harper Boyhtari, put her all-encompassing dread even more succinctly on the hauntingly beautiful “I Hate Everything,” a song so riddled with apathy and numbness that if you received the lyrics in text form then you’d have grounds to call in a wellness check on whoever sent them your way.
A reasonable listener would hear “New Low” and wonder, “How could life possibly get worse for these people?” Well, it did. In the three years since its release, Gaval and Boyharti each endured a string of family deaths, forcing them to quite literally make uneasy acquaintance with the subject they’ve spent their whole adult lives singing about. For a while, they felt encumbered by the stark reality that all their relationships are terminal. However, mixed in with the unfortunate finales were a slew of new beginnings for Gaval and Boyharti. New jobs, new identities, new band members, and new realizations about the function they want their art to serve.
Greet Death is: Logan Gaval, Harper Boyhtari, Jim Versluis, Jackie Kalmink, Eric Beck
releases June 27th, 2025
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