Metal Hammer UK

DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE

Gas Lit

INVADA

A rapt and radical act of resistance from Australia’s drone doom duo

one of the defining terms of 2020. While it was initially associated with emotional abuse in toxic personal relationships, the last year has shown us that whole communities can be gaslit. It is now also a political tool, used to make the oppressed and the marginalised question their own lived realities. People of colour, women and LGBTQ+ people are told that discrimination is only in their heads, that they’re overreacting, that their voices don’t count as part of our cultural and political discourse. So, is a perfectly fitting album title for Divide And Dissolve. The Australian duo of Native descent channel their history and struggles through noise - partly because they cannot be told through words. Their aim: to destroy the

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