Review: Greet – I Know How To Die (Full album, 2025) | Dark folk

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Band info

Band: Greet
Album: ‘I Know How To Die‘
Released: October 17th, 2025
Genre: dark folk
Location: UK

Review

If you’re looking for the perfect album for a wet and windy Friday, this is it: Greet‘s debut full-length album, ‘I Know How To Die’. Much like their previous releases, this is yet another skilful journey with impeccable storytelling both lyrically and musically, transporting the listener to “moors… and battlefields“. From the start, the atmosphere is full of melancholy, which lingers throughout, even during the more “uplifting”/hopeful songs like “The Mire“. The title ‘I Know How to Die‘ feels particularly fitting during the last song, “Eulogy“; after a journey through battle, love, and loss, “Eulogy” closes out the album in an almost peaceful way. The protagonist has fought their battles, and they have made peace with their mortality and ultimate fate: death. It’s a depressing reminder, but done beautifully. Greet‘s connection with the breathtaking nature and landscape of Yorkshire throughout also serves as a reminder of this, most notably in the song “May“, with the lyrics “Plant a tree as my headstone and bear it no name/So my spirit lies truly with the stone and the rock/With the moss covered branch and leaf/A home now for the songbird“.

We could go into more details about the music, like how the harmonium gives it a somewhat eerie vibe as well (particularly in songs like “The Leather Knight“), but that wouldn’t be doing the album justice. All we can say is: go and listen to it yourself.

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