Absinthe Green releases “Death By A Thousand Cuts” on February 13, 2026 across all platforms. The track serves as the valediction and epilogue to the band’s debut album ‘Of Love And Pain’, which arrived September 19, 2025 and was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa. Absinthe Green describes the song as inspired by the ancient Chinese method of slow slicing, where many small wounds cumulatively lead to death. “Symbolically, the song reflects how love can feel this way: a series of small betrayals, slights, or pains that gradually erode the heart,” Absinthe Green explains. The song transforms pain into ritual, bleeding devotion into every note as a shadowed farewell written in scars.
Absinthe Green began as a personal project in 2016, led by songwriter and producer Eirini ‘Absinthe Green’ in Dortmund, Germany. After moving back to Greece in 2019, Absinthe was joined by drummer Harry Mason, bassist Villy Pirris, and later guitarist Panos Economakis. The band fuses pop elements, aggressive guitars, groovy rhythms, and versatile vocal range into emotionally charged sound. A critic once described them as “a melodic storm of beauty and heartbreak, both ferocious and tender.” Soul-stirring vocals shift between power and fragility while skillful guitar work and infectious grooves underpin melodies that cut straight to the core.
‘Of Love And Pain’ ventures into the contradictions of human experience, where destruction and creation, light and darkness merge. Absinthe Green describes the album as “a vessel for my experiences, woven from love, grief, defiance, and redemption. Yet it is not only born of sorrow; within its depths there is also humour, playfulness, and the strange joy of turning darkness into sound.” The band credits sound engineer Geegor as the fifth member whose dedication gave the record its beating heart. What began as a solitary project has grown into a band that resists simple definition, both fierce and fragile, shadowed and luminous.