Rivers of Nihil – Self-Titled CD Digipak (2024 Progressive Death Metal)

Rivers Of Nihil is the sixth album from the American tech death metal band Rivers Of Nihil.

Sixteen years and five albums after the Pennsylvania band’s formation, progressive death metal progenitors Rivers of Nihil are upping the ante with their 2025 self-titled album Rivers of Nihil.

Traditionally, a self-titled record can signal a return to basics and/or a fresh beginning, and in 10 powerful songs, it’s clear that both those factors are in play. Founding bassist Adam Biggs became the band’s new lead vocalist/bassist in 2023; the same year marked the appearance of additional guitarist Andy Thomas (ex-Black Crown Initiate), whose vocals also play prominently on Rivers of Nihil.

Producers Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland at Atrium Audio captured the new dynamics across more than 50 minutes of music. Despite the fresh approach on Rivers of Nihil, the album fits neatly into the band’s discography. With Where Owls Know My Name (2018), Rivers of Nihil transcended all labels applied to them, and with its 2021 follow-up, The Work, they forged further into new territory. Metal Injection is calling the latter album “by far the group’s most cohesive, ambitious, meditative, and varied effort, with greater uses of philosophical significance and transcendental respites.”

Whether you're drawn to the band's early technical brutality or the atmospheric expansiveness of Where Owls Know My Name, this album bridges every era of Rivers of Nihil into a cohesive sonic experience.

Recommended if you like: Fallujah, Obscura, Archspire, Beyond Creation, Rings of Saturn, Rivers of Nihil, Aversions Crown, The Faceless, Revocation, Alkaloid

Artist: Rivers Of Nihil
Title: Rivers Of Nihil
Label: Metal Blade
Cat #: MB161402
Release Year: 2025
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak
Condition: New & Sealed

Track Listing:
01 The Sub-Orbital Blues
02 Dustman
03 Criminals
04 Despair Church
05 Water & Time
06 House of Light
07 Evidence
08 American Death
09 The Logical End
10 Rivers of Nihil