{"product_id":"divide-and-dissolve_insatiable_2025_bel","title":"Insatiable","description":"Divide and Dissolve is the Australian heavy doom metal band of composer Takiaya Reed. A multi-instrumentalist (guitar, soprano saxophone, and drums), she uses her classical training to craft music that communicates the urgency of Indigenous sovereignty and Black liberation.The title of Divide and Dissolve’s new album, Insatiable, came to Takiaya Reed in a dream. The multi-instrumentalist and composer had a vision of a better world, which fits perfectly with the optimism of her vision of doom metal: “I saw people committing huge acts of unhappiness, never being happy, and people committing huge acts of love, always being happy,” she says. “People are constantly feeding off of this genocidal energy, draining all of these resources in the name of so-called power, only to end up being powerless. Whereas the people who are feeding off of the ways of love and decolonial energy, who are honoring loving, kind ancestors, experience such a deep sense of fulfillment.” For Takiaya, this is what it means to be “insatiable”; it’s how we choose either a path of destruction or a path of compassion, and experience it to its fullest. “The album title touches on so many levels,” she continues. “It’s an album about love, and it’s important to tap into that, now more than ever.”If all that sounds a bit heavy, just wait until you hear Divide and Dissolve’s music. Already legendary in the international doom metal scene, they’re able to expand on the genre’s characteristic sludgy guitars and thunderous drumming with Takaiya’s skillful and wonderful saxophone, adding a layer of complexity rarely seen in doom. Across Insatiable’s 10 tracks, Divide and Dissolve run the full gamut of doom metal—from the ear-splitting depths of lead single “Monolithic,” to contemplative, dare we say even softer moments, like on the aptly titled tracks “Loneliness” and “Grief.” Divide and Dissolve are a band who have honed their sound to perfection, while still continuing to find new ways to evolve, both musically and conceptually. Like all of Divide and Dissolve’s music, Insatiable is almost entirely instrumental, yet it is able to convey profound resonance and complexity.“Most communication is non-verbal,” she says, laying bare her writing process, “we don’t need words to convey our emotions. The fact that oppressive systems need to end—those emotions can be felt by so many people without them explicitly saying it. People know deep within themselves. I think there’s a deep knowing, and I hope the music explores that.” A prime example of this universal emotionality present in Divide and Dissolve is “Monolithic,” a song that begins with an almost soothing saxophone melody before transforming into a dinosaur-sized guitar riff and descending into chaos. While there are no words, you feel the immensity of the band’s intent, an urgent plea to imagine a better world before it’s too late.“This is an exploration of what people perceive as permanent,” Takaiya says about the inspiration behind “Monolithic.” “I want to demystify this idea of permanence, like we’re permanently going to suffer the effects of colonization or my ancestors are permanently going to be erased. Racism isn’t permanent—even though its effects are long-lasting \/\/ deeply felt. If it is to be permanent, that's a very difficult thought to have. The idea of it not being eternal is great for Black and Indigenous liberation and healing.” “Monolithic” kicks off a suite of songs that all seem to mirror each other, moving through calm fields of ghostly brass and roiling thunderstorms of crashing cymbals and crunchy feedback. This repetition throughout the album acts like a mantra, the same feelings and ideas returning again and again in a mind-expanding 30-minute composition. “The music I wrote for Insatiable is undoubtedly a series of repetitions,” Takaiya says. “I see it as a repetitive movement of love: self-love, love of others, love of community. Repetitive prayers, repetitive hopes and dreams, that reinforce themselves again and again in the hope that something changes. Because that’s all we have.”It’s sometimes hard being a trailblazer, and on “Loneliness,” Divide and Dissolve takes stock of how forging a life in the modern world comes with inevitable consequences. Starting with a deep horn that almost sounds like something out of a horror movie, Takiaya interjects a high, mournful saxophone, which stretches and blooms into a groaning choir. It’s a powerful and striking track, unlike anything the band has released in the past. “I think loneliness is an oppression mechanism,” Takaiya says.While Insatiable’s grandiosity represents an evolution in Divide and Dissolve’s sound, it is also the very first time Takiaya lends her voice to a D\/\/D song. On “Grief,” her distorted vocals ring out over a vibrating bass, repeating the lyrics: “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do \/ I feel so alone without you.” “The voice is such a mysterious instrument that this album feels different, and I wanted to honor that,” Takaiya explains.The final track on Insatiable is called “Death Cult,” a moving conclusion to the emotional rollercoaster the album has taken the listener on. The song is about rejecting the narrative the world has prescribed to us, struggling to live the life we want to live, and the beauty that can be found in the midst of that struggle. “I’m Black and Cherokee and I’m told all the time that I am predisposed to certain death and suffering. I refuse to accept that as my only reality. I will not let myself be dominated and defined by this fear that the colonial project has presented as my only option. It’s time to create new possibilities, new ways for survival to occur—not just survival, but beautiful living.”The fact is, the world needs Divide and Dissolve. Not just because they’re an incredibly astute, red-hot doom metal band with gut-punching riffs and neo-classical inflections, but because what they say with their music needs to be heard and acted upon. By its very design, their music cannot be ignored, and so, its message will always be there to reverberate \/\/ to call us into being. 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