With a clearly stated mission of “destroying white supremacy,” this entity created by multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed has shaken the tectonic plates of Doom Metal with a delivery, emotion, and inquisitive spirit that are virtually unheard of within the “genre.”
Refusing to be confined by its worn-out conventions of slowness and heaviness, Reed elevates Divide and Dissolve to a plane of transcendence that, without neglecting its inherent intensity and hypnosis, embraces catharsis as a path to uncovering beauty beyond violence. “Insatiable”, released this year on Bella Union, amplifies everything that had been carefully honed across the previous four albums to reach a level of absolute expressiveness—driven by deep riffs, martial beats, spiraling and anguished bursts of saxophone, and, for the first time, Reed’s own voice on the track “Grief.” Monumental.