The album was recorded in March of 2013 at Mana Recording Studios in Florida with famed metal producer/musician Erik Rutan. It was an enlightening experience to speak with Rivers of Nihil, to be given the opportunity to learn not only about the creative process behind their own brand of death metal, but also their attitudes toward musical integrity, professionalism, and the arduous yet deeply rewarding path of the artist. He’s the guy who recorded the vocals, he’s very good at arranging and stuff like that. They’re in the first song, the last song, and on "Terrestria III"; it’s hard to distinguish what they’re saying, but we asked them questions like, “How do you envision the world changing after your death?" Produced by Grant McFarland & Carson Slovak. Hey guys, We will be here to answer your questions starting at 9 pm EST. The group’s unswerving commitment to advancement and progression is undoubtedly their greatest collective strength, and is mirrored identically in the continued narrative of their music. How to say nihil in English? The very next track, Terrestria III, starts off with an electronic bassline with a faint spoken conversation deep in the background and echoed piano chords, and then the guitars and drums kick in to an apocalyptic degree, like the heaviest song Godflesh ever made. Brody: I guess we’ve gotten a lot better at diagnosing problems that we’re having when we’re writing. Do you have any musical inspirations from the past or the present that specifically inspired some of the directions you’ve chosen to explore with Rivers of Nihil? It showcases considerable musical advancement, a bolder sense of experimentation, and an extremely personal and introspective element to the Rivers of Nihil sound that balances more savage moments with considerable emotional heft. As a faithful and longtime fan of the band, it warms my heart to see them not only weathering the ferocious and unforgiving winds of time, but finding such immense success while doing so. Obviously the lineup has changed; there’s three original members in the band now [Uttley, Biggs, and vocalist Jake Dieffenbach] and then we have Jared [Klein] our drummer, he’s been with us for two years, and Jon [Topore] our guitar player for four years. Taking this more holistic approach, Progspot seeks to thoroughly analyze and dissect the cutting edge of innovative modern metal one specimen at a time, shedding light into their enigmatic corridors in order to understand their continued evolution. Rivers of Nihil is an American technical death metal band from Reading, Pennsylvania. If there’s any way we can do that for someone out there, just have somebody be completely swallowed by the record live, that would probably be one of the coolest things for me. I think the basic meaning of the band name is that the human experience is a constant flowing river, and in many cases it is all for naught because so many people go through life not truly LIVING it. At that point I was wanting to be supportive of Jared who was recording drums and Jake who was doing vocals, and working with Carson to get the best possible representation of the music mix-wise on the record. Brody: Biggs and I basically record the whole album at my studio before we enter the big studio. Rivers Of Nihil Tabs. That was pretty neat. Everything changed when I confronted the sprawling grandeur of technical death metal in the form of The Faceless’s seminal magnum opus Planetary Duality. Since we’ve released this record, it’s definitely changed big time for us. I guess the way they ended up sounding was, in a big way, because of working with Grant [McFarland]. Like I said, I feel like we’re a totally different band. Lauded by followers of tech-death, OSDM, and deathcore alike, this enigmatic record spread like wildfire after its release, transcending boundaries that, at the time, seemed insurmountable. In empty space. Rivers of Nihil have again produced nothing more than a cut-rate digest of extreme metal; their influences are painfully obvious and any elements of their music that aren’t obviously stolen are mind-numbingly simplistic. So that was cool, and literally no one’s noticed it. There were more moving parts this time around, but generally it was the same as what we did on our previous record Monarchy, [we] did everything beforehand and just went into the studio and got work done. It came as an unparalleled honor, therefore, to have the privilege of speaking in-depth with two of the group’s founding members, guitarist Brody Uttley and bassist Adam Biggs, about Rivers of Nihil’s storied legacy and unceasingly tireless forward progress. They are currently signed to Metal Blade Records. Brody: I really try not to listen to too much other stuff when we’re writing, just because I like to try to keep my head clear. You are a unique individual. To conclude our conversation, I asked them to what degree they felt that their ten years of devotion to this arcane craft had paid off, and to illustrate their own perspective on the astonishing magnitude to which their identity as an outfit has changed as of late. When I hear those older demos, it’s like a different band to me. How have people’s attitudes toward the genre changed, and what’s changed within the music itself? [11] The album sold 1,175 copies in its first week. Even on this tour, we’re turning up and the promoters are like, “oh, it’s sold out tonight,” and we’re like “what?”. In order to more fully understand the context of Rivers of Nihil from their own perspective, I began by asking Uttley to contemplate the greater framework of his and his bandmates experiences with the band since its inception. It sets the tone for the record, this is basically the story of this being on the album cover, so I think the fact that it’s central focus is on this individual makes it inherently more personal from the get-go. Rivers of Nihil is an autistic (with all due respect to those with the condition) hunk of aluminium and plastic, straight outta DARPA – technologically impressive, uncanny, and not quite fit for any field task, because it failed at the prototype stage. The same thing happens in "Terrestria III," there’s that same melody. The album artwork was created by Dan Seagrave, who would handle the artwork on the band's next two albums as well. I’ve gotten a lot better at recording: I’ve recorded guitar and bass on our last two records, and I think me learning how to record has really streamlined the writing process for us, whereas before we all wrote in a room together and would argue about stuff, and never get anything done. I was like, “what do you think about this?” and he sent me back him noodling around, and I thought “wow, that sounds really good.” I think a lot of the record was just kind of a happy accident, we let happened happen and didn’t put any restrictions on it. If I’m listening to anything when I’m writing, I try to have it be something that’s an old favorite of mine, rather than listening to what’s new and current and going on in the scene. Brody: I don’t really know if it has anything to do with the scene or if it’s just our fans growing with us; I feel like in the early days when we started, when deathcore was still a very, very popular genre of metal, some of the more progressive moments that we tried back in those days didn’t really go over as well with audiences, because back then they were really focused on the brutality of stuff. And that’s in addition to having cool guest musicians on the record: sax player Zach, or trumpet player Sean, or Andy Thomas from Black Crown Initiate. The last record cycle was kind of rough for us. What is it that makes progressive metal so fascinating yet so contentious? We’ve been brainstorming together, we have a lot of ideas but nothing specific. I mean, I know it’s goddamn death metal, but the fact that RIVERS OF NIHIL refrain from playing a straight move always keeps me on my toes. Rivers of Nihil – Capricorn / Agoratopia. Seeking to gain greater insight into the band's eccentric process, I asked Uttley to describe how his own approach to songwriting and musical arrangement had developed from album to album, and to detail some of the new strategies he had adopted along the way. [12] On August 17, 2015, the band made Monarchy available for streaming in full. All those communal contributions really inspired the record to take shape the way it did. With the four-album cycle, what are some of the major philosophical themes, beyond just the movement of the seasons? Where Owls Know My Name is the third studio album by Pennsylvania death metal band Rivers of Nihil.The album was released on March 16, 2018 through Metal Blade Records and was the band's first effort to chart on the Billboard 200, debuting at number 61 and selling 2,750 copies in its first week. Even the self-professed “technical” or “progressive” bands of this wave often utilized intricacy in poor taste, creating over-produced and mechanically sterile music that rarely conveyed true profundity. So I think maybe the record will try to embody those elements as best it can, but as far as what specific kinda sounds we’re gonna be working with, I’m not really sure yet. So we basically go into the studio with a finished product, and then most of the on-the-spot creative things on the record happened during the vocal recordings. I wanted to know what had inspired the catharsis channeled through their soul-purging music, and how the group had so effectively blended their raw, organic songwriting with such impeccably refined sound engineering and production. Gaining considerable traction within several starkly contrasting circles of metal fandom was The Conscious Seed of Light, a debut full-length album from a then-more obscure group. Brody: I think that it’s kind of happened naturally, specifically on this latest record. I wanted to know which aspects of the group’s identity (if any) had remained constant, and what elements had undergone a radical change in those ten years since they first embarked on this now-prolific odyssey. We kept a lot of that around even on the newest record, which has the fastest song we’ve ever done as a band. How would you compare the 2019 “now” Rivers of Nihil versus 2009 when you were first starting out and trying to get your footing? Other than that, it’s so different to all of us. I do a lot of the song writing as well so uh, yeah that’s my job haha. Is there anything else you wanted to mention about the album, or about Rivers of Nihil in general? Whereas Biggs, if I send him something and it’s terrible he’ll be like “that’s terrible; it doesn’t sound like us, it’s stupid.” So I think we’ve gotten a lot better at being honest with each other and not getting offended by it. Rivers of Nihil – TBA (Metal Blade) What we know so far: The band is currently in the studio working on the follow-up to 2018’s Where Owls Know My Name , which was met with near-universal acclaim from critics and fans alike. I think that if there’s any comparison to the season of winter, it’s that there’s the contrast between brutal, freezing cold and not-too-bad, sun’s out. And although I could not immediately elicit the entirety of the album's meaning, I could sense the presence of complex and earnest philosophical messages lying just below the surface of the record’s densely constructed passageways. I feel like in general people have become more accepting, but it could just be the fact that they’ve just grown with us. I think the sound of that record, the more progressive sound happened organically. Artist: Rivers Of Nihil Album Title: Where Owls Know My Name Label: Metal Blade Records Date Of Release: 16 March 2018 I have been meaning to get around to reviewing this record for some time. That said, once I sat down with the record and let myself be fully absorbed by its bizarre aural scenery, I knew that Rivers of Nihil's defiance of convention ran much deeper than their peculiar aesthetic. Embodying a season is a difficult thing to do, but I think a lot of the stuff that ended up making it sound that way happened organically, by accident really. Honestly since this record’s come out, we’ve been on the road pretty solid and haven’t had a whole lot of time to write. Hollow Lyrics. Brody: That might be a good question for Biggs…. The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the name Nihil is Saturday, May 10th, 1879. 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Before delving into the true meat of Where Owls Know My Name, I felt that I first needed to clarify its philosophical relationship to autumn, and thus its context in the greater scheme of the band's seasonal album cycle. Rivers of Nihil. In early 2014, however, the tides of change surged forth yet again, and in the midst of this uninspired wasteland an oasis came into view: Rivers of Nihil. I desperately pursued a modern interpretation of the enthralling organic mix of innovation and raw savagery first pioneered by groups such as Death, Gorguts, and Spawn of Possession, but for several years my search was largely fruitless – nothing new seemed to truly satisfy my cravings. While I initially directed my thematic and lyrical inquiries toward Uttley, he took a step back to allow Biggs to give a more comprehensive explanation of the psychological concepts driving the deeper meaning of the record. As I walk through the shallows of my distant mind I see the forms of faces I … I could definitely say for a fact that if we brought a saxophone player out on stage in 2009 we would have gotten laughed at. "Metal-Temple.com :: RIVERS OF NIHIL: Charts with "Where Owls Know My Name. The conceptual side to Rivers of Nihil's sophomore record was so well-executed that it even aided in contextualizing the spring-oriented themes of Conscious Seed of Light, retrospectively contrasting the latter’s spry and frenzied nature against its hefty compositional style. [13], On September 7, 2017, the band announced via their Facebook account that they'd returned to the studio, once again working at Atrium Audio, and working again with audio engineers Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland. [10], Rivers of Nihil returned to Atrium studios to work again with Slovak on their second full-length studio album, Monarchy, which was released on August 21, 2015. Allowing more breathing room in which to explore a much wider variety of textures and emotions, Monarchy flattened listeners with the striking degree of maturation Rivers of Nihil had achieved in the relatively brief interval between their debut and sophomore albums. Jared does most of the high vocals on the record, and he’s actually doing them live with us as well. Rivers of Nihil are currently on tour in Europe with Thy Art Is Murder, Carnifex, Fit For An Autopsy, and I AM.. Tour dates: 25.1.20 Antwerp, BE @ Zappa 26.1.20 Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 27.1.20 Glasgow, UK @ Garage He recommended Patrick to us, he was like “he’s sick and he’s a really nice dude.” We basically just put him on a plane and forced him to come on tour with us. I’ve seen a lot of bands, a lot of concerts in my lifetime, and I’m not a religious person or really a spiritual person at all, but I’ve had semi-spiritual experiences at concerts, and that’s always a really cool feeling. It’s very subtle, but that was one of my favorite things about the record that was a little last minute, impromptu. AMA | Rivers of Nihil. Which I’m totally fine with: at this point I don’t know exactly where it’s going, but hopefully it’s somewhere exciting and good. The band’s writing is nugatory, the production is lifeless, and whether due to the preceding factors or just a lack of artistry, the performances on the record are second-rate, which … As I continue to venture deeper and deeper into the complexities of my own fascination with extreme metal, I increasingly realize that what keeps drawing me back into the genre year after year is its esoteric sense of mystery, its manifold hidden dualities. The group’s recurring conceptual references to the natural inevitability of growth and change are reflected in their devotion to the continual development of a central identity; the pulse-pounding, breakneck energy originally introduced on Conscious Seed of Light has been conserved immaculately throughout their discography, though it has mutated and evolved into a wildly unrecognizable diversity of forms. Rivers of Nihil links: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube. Support Invisible Oranges on Patreon; check out Invisible Oranges merchandise on Awesome Distro. I know when a lot of bands move in a progressive direction, they kinda ditch the death metal traditions; I don’t think we really did that. Like a metaphor for the nature of life itself, they have never for a moment strayed from their central mission of constant evolution and innovation, refusing to look backward and unwilling to compromise any aspect of their fierce and intrepid nature. Within the span of six years, the possibilities hinted in the group’s debut album had expanded into an actualization of the grandeur and potential fueling their core. Brody: I think that winter can be a very confusing time of year: you can have sunny skies and mild temps one day, and then the next day it can just be an insane snowstorm. Perhaps its inclination toward conceptual grandiosity and meticulously structured compositions turn some off from the style, but it is for these very same reasons that its disciples are so obsessive and meticulous in their understanding of its compositions. Despite the constant fluctuation of elements comprising Rivers of Nihil, it is deeply encouraging to hear from the band themselves that their core vision and ethos are still as focused and unwavering as when they began. There’s many routes by which you could have conveyed that decaying, autumnal aesthetic, but you decided to choose a more jazzy, atmospheric space. Along with Black Crown Initiate (who played their inaugural show with Rivers of Nihil in July 2013), Rivers of Nihil is one of the scene’s major breakout entities, having first risen to local prominence with two EPs in 2010 and 2011, respectively titled Hierarchy and Temporality Unbound. Listen to the audio pronunciation of Rivers Of Nihil on pronouncekiwi. A last breath for the earthly. I know your team was essentially the same, but with a few added musicians. Brody: Big, big time. I had a pretty clear vision of where the story was going to go from the beginning, but as it happens, you get halfway, three-quarters of the way into a ten-year thing, and you change your mind about stuff. Back in the day if we were to do that, it probably would have turned into a screaming match at practice. Brody: There’s a few technical things that are kinda cool that I was stoked on and surprised by. But I think there’s something to be said for a kind of gradual climb as a band, I think the fact that we started as a pretty heavy death metal band that gained the trust and quote on quote “popularity” of our local scene as that type of band, that helped us get our foot in the door of the scene in general and we kinda just grew from there. There’s a lot of cello on the record, it’s just kind of hidden. Borrowing alternative instrumentations and stylistic expressions from not only the various remote corners of metal, but the wider spectrum of music as a whole, this album launched the band's sound lightyears ahead of anything they've done before. Though the group’s early work bears little resemblance to their more recent material, it was vitally essential in laying the groundwork for the incomparable Rivers of Nihil … [14] The band recruited The Kennedy Veil's live drummer Jared Klein to track drums. Do you write the songs mostly instrumentally or do you sometimes help with the lyrical side of the band? Spearheaded by an aesthetic movement nostalgically referred to as Sumerian-core (named for the record label that first popularized the sound), uninspired metalcore, deathcore, and djent reigned supreme among younger metal fans for largely superficial reasons, just as nu-metal had ten years prior. (Photo credit: Gonzales Photo - … I just tried to keep my head clear during that time. Browse by band name or enter band/album/song to search lyrics for: RIVERS OF NIHIL LYRICS. As far as the jazzier parts, specifically with the saxophone, they were kind of just happy accidents. What’s changed, and what’s stayed the same? It’s almost a nature vs. nurture issue, like “are we leading them to this or is it naturally happening?”. and "What is your greatest regret?" The abbreviated designation of a statement filed by a sheriff or constable with a court describing his or her unsuccessful attempts to serve a writ, notice, or process upon the designated person. Perhaps both? Sign in to disable ALL ads. With the amount of love and fervent support the outfit has seen in the past year, their very tangible and poignant impact upon the hearts of their fans has already proven them as a lasting entity that will only continue to grow and billow outward in riveting new directions. The trek will begin September 17th and run through October 20th. On "Terrestria III," there’s these big, like, "BONGs” -- that’s actually a cello running through a guitar amp. There’s one thing on the record that a lot of people don’t even realize is on there: we have these interviews that are kinda playing in the background, where we had people answer questions that we compiled. How would you compare this tour cycle with that of Monarchy? I can’t really say personally how I felt going in -- I felt like I was on vacation, because I was done recording my guitar parts, and it was time for drums. Rivers of Nihil – Capricorn / Agoratopia A comment was added to Capricorn / Agoratopia by Jakezilla. Support will be provided by Exhumed, Rivers Of Nihil, and Yautja. [5], In 2011, the band worked with producer Len Carmichael to record their second EP Temporality Unbound. Within this empty room. We’re not deliberately shoehorning the prog elements into our sound, I find that we’ve become pretty aware of when it’s time to be a death metal band and when it’s time to have those more open proggy sections. [15] On March 16, 2018, the band released Where Owls Know My Name as well as a music video for the song "A Home". Over the past ten years, how have you seen the landscape of technical and progressive death metal evolve? Yeah, it’s hard to say if it was nature or nurture, but I guess you could see it either way. As I suspected, many of his answers made direct reference to the band’s newfound yearning to express their innermost creative will. That’s kinda how we’ve learned to operate. Brody: I mean, Pink Floyd is probably my favorite band, just their entire career. Their most recent release is 2018's Where Owls Know My Name,[1] which debuted at number 61 on the Billboard 200,[2] selling 2,750 copies in its first week. What is the record’s musical intention? Were they any standout moments? The fact that the album art for our previous two records have been landscapes, whereas this new record is a close-up of an entity’s face. Brody: No, not at all. EP: "Hierarchy"(2010) Chambers Of Civility. [7], In February 2012, MetalSucks referred to Rivers of Nihil as the "best new Death metal band you'll hear this year". If you have a specific question for one of us please be sure to clarify who the question is for! We’re gonna be in Australia and New Zealand in May with Ne Obliviscaris, Allegaeon, and Beyond Creation, and we’ve got some other announcements coming up for the summer and fall, so stay tuned. If people hate it then whatever.” We had several lineup changes during our last album cycle, and a lot of the stuff we ended up doing on that last record was kinda underwhelming. Though the group’s early work bears little resemblance to their more recent material, it was vitally essential in laying the groundwork for the incomparable Rivers of Nihil of today. Juha Jyrkäs: Folk Metal Master (Interview), Entering the Underground #5: Feast on Anthropophagous’ Gruesome, Mutated De…, Sons of Alpha Centauri’s Trippy Post-Rock Returns from the Event Horizon: “…. Brody: Yeah sure, my name is Brody I play lead guitar in Rivers Of Nihil. Thanks to the incredible musicianship and clarity of tone executed by all five of the group’s members, something deep within me finally connected to the fiery voraciousness and unrelenting speed of one of metal’s most extreme forms, permanently altering the course of my life to come. Fear, fear drowns the … If there’s one thing to be said it’s that the album starts and ends the same way. Furthermore, Monarchy’s grueling pace, extended length, and passages of shimmering desert psychedelia helped to emphasize the seasonal concept of the album; standing as the second installment in a four-record cycle, the sonic techniques and methodologies utilized on Monarchy all contributed to a representation of both the literal and figurative implications of summer. Do you use any specific techniques in your songwriting process that you use to get yourself into a more creative, original headspace? 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