Greet Death songs manifest in various forms: breakneck shoegaze rave-ups, bleary folk-rock lullabies, slowcore epics that seem to fill up the entire room until they smother you with disgusting beauty. Their vocals can evoke both the deep sorrow of early Mark Kozelek and the spindly, supernatural qualities of Dan Bejar reading poetry several cocktails deep. Yet for all their versatility, they’ve honed in on an unmistakable mood, a feeling of depression in desperate search of catharsis. More often than not, New Hell provides it.
http://Dixieland by Greet Death
I had never heard a band that sounded like Greet Death. After hearing Dixieland, I set out like a detective to research this band and their sound and how the hell something this cool had emerged. When I finally did get a chance to talk to them, they told me something to the extent of “We were making music that sounded very different, but then we saw Cloakroom set up a wall of speakers and melt faces off, and we wanted to do that too”, and you know what, that’s exactly what it sounds like. When these songs rumble forward like a stone golem on the attack you will be left in awe.
Beautiful, heavy, dark and rewarding. I was a little apprehensive at first. since the resurgence of shoegaze in the early 2010’s i feel only a hand full of bands have taken the genre to new exciting places. it sounds like this just comes natural to Greet Death. the 2 vocalists trade off vocal duties adding another demention to the music. this is standout in the genre. hearing lots of obvious influences with a touch of sunny day real estate.
Greet Death is:
Logan Gaval,
Sam Boyhtari,
Jim Versluis
