Label: METAL BLADE RECORDS
Vinyl Release Date: 05/30/2025
Original Release Date: 05/30/2025
Variant: Bleach & Ammonia

Sixteen years and five albums after the Pennsylvania bands 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, its clear that both those factors are in play. Founding bassist Adam Biggs became the bands 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 bands 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 calling the latter album by far the groups most cohesive, ambitious, meditative, and varied effort, with greater uses of philosophical significance and transcendental respites.

1. The Sub-Orbital Blues
2. Dustman
3. Criminals
4. Despair Church
5. Water & Time
6. House of Light
7. Evidence
8. American Death
9. The Logical End
10. Rivers of Nihil