True to the band’s name, death creeps into nearly all of Greet Death’s songs. And yet, through this ever-present certainty, the band finds the absolute core of what it means to be alive.
Since 2011, elementary school friends Logan Gaval and Harper Boyhtari have been writing songs full of big ideas and everyday details. Their music, loud and full of melodic sensibility, draws from shoegaze, doomgaze, and a little-bit-of-everything-gaze, creating an emotionally maximalist palette. Writing separately but playing together (think of them as small-town Michigan’s Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus), they’ve been drawing in a devoted crowd ever since their unexpectedly successful debut Dixieland in 2017, followed by their next-level opus New Hell in 2019. You’d be hard-pressed to find albums with such heart: ones flooded both with full-bloom feelings and the dumb stories we tell ourselves in order to get through the day.
Returning six years later with Die In Love, their third and best album, Greet Death face the great human problem—that we must go on living despite knowing we’re going to die, and loving despite knowing we’re going to lose it all—with great sensitivity, humor, and flourish. With this album, Greet Death have found a way to anthemize our suffering, to turn it into one great, big, beautiful singalong.
Today, the band has shared another new album single and guitarist/vocalist Logan Gaval says about it: “Ever feel like something or someone else was controlling your life. Like you hopped in an uber headed straight to hell? This is the depression anthem.”
Greet Death, on tour: 07/25 | Grand Rapids, MI | T-Rex Fest
w/ Nation Of Language 09/21 | Boston, MA | Royale 09/23 | Detroit, MI | The Majestic Theatre 09/24 | Chicago, IL | Thalia Hall 09/26 | Minneapolis, MN | First Avenue 09/27 | Milwaukee, WI | Turner Hall Ballroom 09/29 | Omaha, ME | Slowdown 09/30 | Kanas City, MO | The Truman 10/02 | Englewood, CO | Gothic Theatre 10/04 | Boise, ID | Knitting Factory 10/05 | Missoula, MT | Top Hat Lounge
Greet Death "Motherfucker" Single Cover Artwork
Greet Death "Die In Love" Cover Artwork Greet Death at T-Rex Fest: