The title for Divide and Dissolve’s new album, Insatiable, came to Takiaya Reed in a dream. Themulti-instrumentalist and composer had a vision of a better world, one that gelled seamlessly with theoptimism of her take on doom metal: “I saw people committing great acts of harm never being happy,and people committing great acts of love, always being happy,” she says. “People are constantly feedinginto this genocidal energy, depleting all of these resources in the name of so-called power, just to end uppowerless. Whereas people feeding into pathways of love and decolonial energy, honouring loving andbenevolent ancestors, experience such a deep sense of fulfilment.” For Takiaya, this is what it means tobe “insatiable”; it’s the way we choose either a path of destruction or one of compassion, andexperience it to it’s fullest. “The album’s title hits on so many levels,” she continues. “It’s an album aboutlove, and it feels important to tap into that, now mo