Rivers of Nihil
Reading, Pennsylvania's Rivers of Nihil shattered progressive death metal conventions with 2018's 'Where Owls Know My Name,' an album that introduced jazz saxophone, atmospheric passages, and post-rock dynamics into a foundation of crushing technical death metal. The band's concept of organizing their discography around the four seasons gives their catalog a thematic cohesion rare in extreme music. Their willingness to incorporate genuinely unexpected elements like clean vocals and woodwinds into devastating brutality has made them one of the most critically acclaimed and boundary-pushing bands in modern death metal.
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Rivers of Nihil Discography
10 tracks
- 1 Heirless 2:24
- 2 Perpetual Growth Machine 4:51
- 3 Reign of Dreams 3:16
- 4 Sand Baptism 4:49
- 5 Ancestral, I 4:33
- 6 Dehydrate 4:00
- 7 Monarchy 5:43
- 8 Terrestria II: Thrive 5:59
- 9 Circles in the Sky 6:27
- 10 Suntold 7:23
10 tracks
- 1 Terrestria I: Thaw 1:44
- 2 Rain Eater 5:00
- 3 Birth of the Omnisavior 4:26
- 4 Soil & Seed 5:07
- 5 Central Antheneum 3:54
- 6 Mechanical Trees 4:24
- 7 Place of Serpents 3:43
- 8 Human Adaptation 3:21
- 9 A Fertile Altar 3:15
- 10 Airless 5:50
10 tracks
- 1 Cancer / Moonspeak 1:44
- 2 The Silent Life 6:34
- 3 A Home 5:19
- 4 Old Nothing 4:44
- 5 Subtle Change (Including the Forest of Transition and Dissatisfaction Dance) 8:34
- 6 Terrestria III: Wither 3:49
- 7 Hollow 5:13
- 8 Death Is Real 6:09
- 9 Where Owls Know My Name 6:42
- 10 Capricorn / Agoratopia 7:50
11 tracks
- 1 The Tower (Theme from "The Work") 4:30
- 2 Dreaming Black Clockwork 6:39
- 3 Wait 4:05
- 4 Focus 4:54
- 5 Clean 6:08
- 6 The Void from Which No Sound Escapes 6:43
- 7 MORE? 3:25
- 8 Tower 2 1:58
- 9 Episode 7:29
- 10 Maybe One Day 7:03
- 11 Terrestria IV: Work 11:29
1 track
- 0 Hellbirds 4:34
1 track
- 0 The Sub-Orbital Blues 4:20
3 tracks
- 1 Criminals 4:23
- 2 Hellbirds 4:34
- 3 The Sub-Orbital Blues 4:20
4 tracks
- 1 Chambers of Civility 4:02
- 2 Human Adaptation 3:05
- 3 Ultimate Sentience 4:14
- 4 Post-Mortem Prostitution 4:32
10 tracks
- 1 The Sub-Orbital Blues 4:18
- 2 Dustman 4:33
- 3 Criminals 4:32
- 4 Despair Church 6:30
- 5 Water & Time 5:24
- 6 House of Light 5:49
- 7 Evidence 4:22
- 8 American Death 5:23
- 9 The Logical End 6:07
- 10 Rivers of Nihil 3:16
11 tracks
- 1 The Tower (Theme from "The Work") [Instrumental] 4:30
- 2 Dreaming Black Clockwork (Instrumental) 6:39
- 3 Wait (Instrumental) 4:05
- 4 Focus (Instrumental) 4:54
- 5 Clean (Instrumental) 6:08
- 6 The Void from Which No Sound Escapes (Instrumental) 6:43
- 7 MORE? (Instrumental) 3:25
- 8 Tower 2 (Instrumental) 1:58
- 9 Episode (Instrumental) 7:29
- 10 Maybe One Day (Instrumental) 7:03
- 11 Terrestria IV: Work (Instrumental) 11:29
10 tracks
- 1 Cancer / Moonspeak (Instrumental) 1:44
- 2 The Silent Life (Instrumental) 6:34
- 3 A Home (Instrumental) 5:19
- 4 Old Nothing (Instrumental) 4:45
- 5 Subtle Change (Including the Forest of Transition and Dissatisfaction Dance) [Instrumental] 8:33
- 6 Terrestria III: Wither (Instrumental) 3:49
- 7 Hollow (Instrumental) 5:13
- 8 Death Is Real (Instrumental) 6:09
- 9 Where Owls Know My Name (Instrumental) 6:42
- 10 Capricorn / Agoratopia (Instrumental) 7:49
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