Posts Tagged ‘Flint’

GREET DEATH – ” Strange Days “

Posted: November 6, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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I never knew how much I wanted to hear Dan Bejar front a shoegaze band until I heard Greet Death, whose recent signing to Deathwish is good news for metalcore fans who almost certainly wouldn’t have found out about the group otherwise. Pivoting from the somewhat straightforward slowcore of their debut, the Flint, Michigan trio are diving headfirst into the aesthetic attached to their new label for their forthcoming LP New Hell, with the standout single even toting a macabre and undoubtedly Converge-approved refrain of “All we seem to love is the darkness.” With all sorts of post-punk and grunge undertones mixed in , I guess you could convince me they don’t belong on a label alongside such heavy bands as Code Orange and Hesitation Wounds, as long as you could make a stronger argument for another already-existing scene they’d feel more at home in.

Band Members
Logan Gaval – Guitar, vocals
Sam Boyhtari – Bass guitar, vocals
Jimmy Versluis – Drums

From the album “New Hell” in stores November 8th

GREET DEATH – ” Dixieland “

Posted: December 16, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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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.

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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