Greet Death – Die In Love (Review)

I really, really loved New Hell, the Deathwish Inc. debut of Greet Death. A fistful of melancholia, a whole lot of distorted guitars and with “You’re gonna hate what you have done” and “New Hell” two of my absolute favorite songs ever. Between this and Die In Love lies 2022’s New Low EP which saw Greet Death take a more introspective direction.

The first harbinger of Die In Love, “Same But Different Now“, gave a fairly good impression of what’s new on the album: a little bit of speed, a little less “dawn of ages”-guitars like on New Hell and more melancholic dreams. “August Underground” or “Die In Love” on the other hand are the songs which remind me most of New Hell, especially the goosebump-inducing finale in the first one. I could listen to this forever.

I hear a lot of The Smashing Pumpkins influence here. Songs like the closer “Love Me When You Leave“, “Emptiness is Everywhere” or “Red Rocket” (is this a South Park reference…IYKYK) sound like they are taken straight from the Gish or Pisces Iscariot album. Just listen to the Pumpkins song “Crush” and “Emptiness is Everywhere” back to back, you will know what I mean.

At times Die In Love sounds like a sensory-supernova with a million colors and at other times like the implosion of something great followed by the overwhelming realization of loss. Greet Death combine the bittersweet with the heavy like no other band right now could do and succeed in a gut-wrenching fashion.