As we follow Greet Death for quite a while, this is with no surprise that we highlight their latest album ‘Die in Love’ released this summer on CD, LP & Digital via Deathwish Inc.. With this third full-length effort since their inception nearly 15 years ago, the American alt-rock/post-shoegazers embraces melancholy at its finest.
Flint, Michigan’s outfit have never shied away from heavy themes. From their reaper-tinged name to lyrics steeped in doom, mortality has always loomed large over the band’s work. Yet on ‘Die in Love’ the expanded five-piece (with bassist/producer Jackie Kalmink and guitarist Eric Beck joining Logan Gaval, Harper Boyhtari, and Jim Versluis) finds an unexpected lightness in the darkness. Grief, once all-consuming, now coexists with community, memory, and even love.
Nine tracks that shift between intimate acoustic ballads and colossal fuzz-drenched shoegaze. Opener “Die in Love” immediately sets the tone with a soaring wall of guitars and the stark mantra, “Small Town Cemetery” aches with tender vulnerability, while “Same But Different Now” pushes the band’s sound to its rawest edge in a storm of riffs and screams. Boyhtari’s “Country Girl” blurs small-town vignettes with horror-film surrealism, and closer “Love Me When You Leave” distills the record’s spirit into a haunting, intimate plea.
Lyrically, Gaval brings a dark romanticism rooted in universal experience, while Boyhtari folds the fantastical into the everyday. The result is a balance of grit and transcendence, a record equally at home in grief as it is in fleeting joy.
Fans of Cloakroom, Holy Fawn, Hum, Nothing, or True Widow will find plenty to love here. Like those peers, Greet Death thrive on dynamic contrasts—whisper-to-scream, beauty-to-brutality—while carving out their own voice: gothic, cinematic, and unflinchingly human.
‘Die in Love’ doesn’t reinvent Greet Death—it refines them. It’s the sound of a band fully stepping into its skin, embracing both the ugliness and the beauty of existence.
