– June 14th, 2024 –
Photograph by: Mike Truehart
Stream / buy RIVERS OF NIHIL’s The place Owls Know My Identify (Instrumentals) HERE
Studying, Pennsylvania-based progressive demise metallers RIVERS OF NIHIL are happy to launch the instrumental version of their critically lauded The place Owls Know My Identify full-length at present by way of Metallic Blade Data.
RIVERS OF NIHIL introduced themselves as one of the vital promising and forward-thinking metallic bands on the earth with their first two releases, The Acutely aware Seed of Mild (2013) and Monarchy (2015). However in March of 2018, they shattered all expectations with their third full-length, The place Owls Know My Identify.
Shaped in 2009 by guitarist Brody Uttley, bassist/lyricist Adam Biggs, and vocalist Jake Dieffenbach, RIVERS OF NIHIL shortly made a reputation for themselves within the demise metallic scene, attracting the eye of legendary demise metallic titan Erik Rutan. Rutan, revered for his work as each a musician (Hate Everlasting, Morbid Angel) and producer (Cannibal Corpse, Goatwhore), insisted on recording The Acutely aware Seed Of Mild. The outcomes had been, unsurprisingly, spectacular, with Heavy Weblog Is Heavy going as far as to claim that the debut “rivals even essentially the most legendary work of a few of [RIVERS OF NIHIL’s] friends and influences.” They continued alongside this trajectory with Monarchy, which Metallic Injection praised as an “extremely hanging” demonstration of how “RIVERS OF NIHIL have developed right into a monster.“
The place Owls Know My Identify represented a large evolutionary leap for RIVERS OF NIHIL. Whereas …Seed… and Monarchy had been thematically centered round spring and summer time, respectively, The place Owls Know My Identify represented the autumn. And though that season is normally related to demise, for RIVERS OF NIHIL, the autumn served as a rebirth. Delivering an album which is commonly simply as punishing as its predecessors whereas assimilating substances from musical genres as different as electronica, jazz, various, folks, and the golden age of Shrapnel Data, the ensuing music on The place Owls Know My Identify is indescribably progressive, a multifaceted soundscape that goes past the wildest goals of even the group’s most ardent admirers.
Feedback guitarist Brody Uttley on the instrumental version of the file, “Ever since The place Owls Know My Identify got here out we’ve had folks begging for an instrumental model. Effectively… right here it’s! Higher see you musician dorks doing all types of canopy movies.“
Watch a visualizer for the instrumental model of “Delicate Change (Together with The Forest Of Transition And Dissatisfaction Dance)” at THIS LOCATION.
RIVERS OF NIHIL‘s The place Owls Know My Identify (Instrumentals) is out at present digitally. Stream / buy the file at: metalblade.com/riversofnihil. A reissued slate of The place Owls Know My Identify merchandise can be accessible at: indiemerch.com/riversofnihil
Its launch follows the disclosing of a model new single and video, “Criminals,” earlier this spring. Stream that HERE.
The place Owls Know My Identify (Instrumentals) Monitor Itemizing:
01. Most cancers / Moonspeak (Instrumental)
02. The Silent Life (Instrumental)
03. A Dwelling (Instrumental)
04. Previous Nothing (Instrumental)
05. Delicate Change (Together with the Forest of Transition and Dissatisfaction Dance) [Instrumental]
06. Terrestria III: Wither (Instrumental)
07. Hole (Instrumental)
08. Demise Is Actual (Instrumental)
09. The place Owls Know My Identify (Instrumental)
10. Capricorn / Agoratopia (Instrumental)
RIVERS OF NIHIL Dwell:
9/20/2024 New England Metallic And Hardcore Fest Pre-Get together @ The Palladium Upstairs – Worcester, MA
9/21/2024 Metallic Injection Fest – Brooklyn, NY
“The place Owls Know My Identify is just not solely a contemporary breath of air for demise metallic however metallic generally. The file guarantees extravagant technicality that’s fascinating and entertaining. RIVERS OF NIHIL haven’t solely supplied a superb file, however have additionally raised the bar for demise metallic.” — Metallic Injection
“It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of the tech-metal world. The place Owls Know My Identify brilliantly blends thoroughbred, American brutality with European adventurousness, and the top result’s an plain triumph.” — Louder Sound
“The place Owls Know My Identify being the masterpiece that it’s, it’s virtually inconceivable to think about how RIVERS OF NIHIL can proceed and try to outdo it sooner or later, nonetheless a much more sensible aspiration is that demise metallic acts everywhere in the world can take observe, and additional contribute to re-branding demise metallic into a really eclectic, articulate, and expressive art-form.” — Distorted Sound
RIVERS OF NIHIL Instrumental Lineup:
Brody Uttley – guitar
Jon Topore – guitar
Adam Biggs – bass
Jared Klein – drums
Zach Strouse – saxophone
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