About Pet the Pestilence
Pet the Pestilence writes melancholic indie folk for late drives and quiet rooms — songs that gently savour the darker parts of life: desire at the locked gate, stubborn hearts, slow goodbyes. Pet the Pestilence plays melancholic indie folk: quiet guitars, close voices and stories told after dark.
The band
- Tom Hale
- Nina Reed
- James Cole
- Ellen Brooks
- Sam Ortega
The writer
All Pet the Pestilence songs are written by David W. Johansson.
Releases
- Letting On (album, 2026) — start with Savage
- Whiskey Words (single, 2026)
- Pulse (new album; official visualizers on YouTube)
Not the metal band
Pet the Pestilence is not the Dutch death-metal band Pestilence and has no connection to it.