Release date: May 30, 2025
Origin: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Personnel: Adam Biggs-vox/bass, Brody Uttley-guitar, Andy Thomas-guitar/vox, Jared Klein-drums/vox
If you’ve followed this blog at all during its run, you probably know I’m a big fan of these guys. They are at the very tippy top of the progressive death metal game. Even though I was really sad to see the demise of fellow Reading, PA band Black Crown Initiate, it has been a boon having Andy Thomas move into a permanent role in Rivers of Nihil. I’ve said it many times: dude simply has the voice of an angel; albeit one with some serious facial hair and a nose ring. Their songcraft just continues to grow on each album and this one is no exception. Just layers of sounds and emotions on this one. Also, you probably know I love a band with multiple singers and ones that incorporate serious harmonizing. It all goes back to the fucking Beatles, people! Special album, this one.
The list so far:
4. Rivers of Nihil-Rivers of Nihil
5. Paradise Lost-Ascension
6. Baest-Colossal
7. Messa-The Spin
8. Kadavar-I Just Want To Be A Sound
9. Harakiri For The Sky-Scorched Earth
10. 16-Guides For The Misguided
11. Lo-Pan-Get Well Soon
12. Hooded Menace-Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
13. Byzantine-Harbingers
14. Wretched-Decau
15. Green Carnation-A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia
16. Scorpion Child-I Saw The End As It Passed Right Through Me
17. Benediction-Ravage of Empires
18. Testament-Para Bellum
19. In Mourning-The Immortal
20. Allegaeon-The Ossuary Lens
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