There's moments here and there throughout the album where there are multiple, competing rhythms happening at once, but it never sounds haphazard. It's a well choreographed fight made out of noise. Nothing is supposed to work this well, but here we are.
This entire albums feels like I’m laying on my back in the driest, dustiest desert imagineable, being cooked alive by the scorching sun coming down on me. To say this album feels like “summer” in their seasons collection, is an understatement. The guitar tones and thickness of the riffs embodies dry scorching summer heat in my mind.
As we march Into the scars of the earth Other circles feel the fear All the tension pulls apart, magnetic waves reveal And the traces fade I am not corporeal Pray to be unmade And absorbed into the light Everybody be as one Suffering only in the mind Coalesce into the none If you worshiped only the real Would you change how you feel? Do you believe you're truly at one? Or would you bargain for another day beneath the sun? Do you regret? Do you feel? Do you own what you've done? And I saw those circles shrinking Missing the fear that once drove them To separate us from what we are And the traces fade We are not corporeal Pray to be remade And absorbed into the light Everybody be as one Suffering only in the mind Coalesce into the none
I've been fixated on Where Owls Know My Name, afraid to listen to this album fearing if this album doesn't live up to the former mentioned Jesus I can't believe how wrong I was. Especially the track "Ancestral, I"
lmao jesus christ I just finished having the same thought process. "Eh do I want to click this? I can live with only knowing Where Owls Know for the rest of my life.."
it's good but you can tell they were finding their footing with the new experimental sound here, and it was truly realized on owls. i am so stoked for whatever they do next.
@TeCrayShawn Johnson its not that good sadly the two singles suck. Compared to this and Owls. i heard a third song that sounds like old Rivers like Suntold but very slim hope they are focusing on simpler melodies and not at technical solos or outros its honestly amazes me the step back they took when they were playing the "Pink Floyd of Metal".
it happened to me that I knew them by Owls, and took a while to listen this and the first album... I found them more difficult to listen than Owls, but now I think they are, at least. as good as it... Ears just need time to appreciate it xD Still, I find the last album, Works, by far not as good as the previous 3, unfortunately.
good voice. nice tone on the guitars. good songs. hmmmm. i'd say that makes these guys an awesome band! tight as hell and something i can put on and fall asleep to and also go work out to.
Yeah I've returned back to this and Owls. Not an edgy elite metalist, but this is quite soothing unlike the nu prog metal stuff they are recently putting out.
@@joyshaitan This album blows The Work out of the water, The Work is an atrocious album...I really hope it's just a one-off album and they return to form, I hope the mixed reviews cause these guys to re-evaluate their change in style. Monarchy and Where Owls Know My Name are by far their best albums, The Work was a huuuge disappointment...
Damn man. Tweaking? Get on the blood alch % / weed. Much tamer, you'll live longer to see more albums being released. Let alone not having scatterbrain.
Tough to stop once you’re brain has been popped. I tell myself idc if it’s bad for me..handful of times = feared death was incoming and every time i squeal like a fucking piggy as my ❤️ sputters to see another day
Their best album and what got me into the band. Where Owls Know My Name was decent but not so into their new direction. I see tons of praise for Owls and though it had some shining moments it just felt too watered down and predictable at times with less complex structures/riffs and the brutal heaviness just didn't match the level set with Monarchy.
I’m with you, man. I first listened to Owls based on the hype. Loved it, put it on my eBay list immediately, etc. I’m just hearing this album for the first time now, and I think I like it better!
Fuck.... (Pardon the wordiness of my review of this eargasm..."I could float here forever...."). Spoiler Alert: At some point this album ends and life sucks again.
My dumbass is so tired i thought they released a new album and i was pissed why i didn't know anything about it 😂 i looked in the desc and realized im just an idiot
th-cam.com/video/O15VH77Sx2Q/w-d-xo.html sounds a lot like Machine Head - The Burning Red, one of my most beloved songs. It would be awesome if that was Rivers of Nihil's inspiration.
This album blows The Work out of the water, The Work is an atrocious album...I really hope it's just a one-off album and they return to form, I hope the mixed reviews cause these guys to re-evaluate their change in style. Monarchy and Where Owls Know My Name are by far their best albums, The Work was a huuuge disappointment...
For real for real. The band said their 4th album was going to be the final chapter to the “seasons”. seed of Consciousness is spring, monarchy is summer & owls is fall. was looking forward to the winter concept from these guys but holy crap they recorded the most boring and non-Rivers of Nihil album possible. they toned everything down and meh
More like Decapitated the whole conception... some tracks such as Sand Baptism is similar to new wave Behemoth ,vocals similar to Nergals voice. Some JFAC vibe thru bass for me! I dunno how u have discovered Meshuggah here, maybe the guitar tune hop ups stimes like that . Give the band a few more listening , they aren't bad !
I've been addicted to Where Owls Know My Name for well over a year now. I am finally opening my mind to this album in preparation for The Work!
@TeCrayShawn Johnson just like with any new music, it's taken time to warm up on me. I love all 3 singles, The Tower and Episode.
Personally, I found this and Where Owls way better than The Work... For me, The Work sounds too commercial and much softer, unfortunately :/
@@b-rg7516 i agree
Same lol exactly
There's moments here and there throughout the album where there are multiple, competing rhythms happening at once, but it never sounds haphazard. It's a well choreographed fight made out of noise. Nothing is supposed to work this well, but here we are.
What a thing of beauty! Why would NOBODY has ever recommended it to me earlier? I Let the river of NIHIL flow forever and ever after! Cheers!
Saw these guys opening for Beyond Creation shortly after this album was released. Man, what a show.
^ + Obscura=the perfect show
@@kingkush4201ify Beyond Rivers of Obscura?! what a show indeed
@@METALLiCMETALLEr who?
@@_zarthix_ Beyond Creation, Rivers of Nihil, Obscura, duh lol
Beyond Metallica and Rivers of obscura...
very inspirational LP
underrated band that is just now getting attention
I love this band so much
The ending of "Suntold", wow.
This entire albums feels like I’m laying on my back in the driest, dustiest desert imagineable, being cooked alive by the scorching sun coming down on me. To say this album feels like “summer” in their seasons collection, is an understatement. The guitar tones and thickness of the riffs embodies dry scorching summer heat in my mind.
perfectly said, totally agree.
As we march
Into the scars of the earth
Other circles feel the fear
All the tension pulls apart, magnetic waves reveal
And the traces fade
I am not corporeal
Pray to be unmade
And absorbed into the light
Everybody be as one
Suffering only in the mind
Coalesce into the none
If you worshiped only the real
Would you change how you feel?
Do you believe you're truly at one?
Or would you bargain for another day beneath the sun?
Do you regret?
Do you feel?
Do you own what you've done?
And I saw those circles shrinking
Missing the fear that once drove them
To separate us from what we are
And the traces fade
We are not corporeal
Pray to be remade
And absorbed into the light
Everybody be as one
Suffering only in the mind
Coalesce into the none
I've been fixated on Where Owls Know My Name, afraid to listen to this album fearing if this album doesn't live up to the former mentioned
Jesus I can't believe how wrong I was. Especially the track "Ancestral, I"
lmao jesus christ I just finished having the same thought process. "Eh do I want to click this? I can live with only knowing Where Owls Know for the rest of my life.."
it's good but you can tell they were finding their footing with the new experimental sound here, and it was truly realized on owls. i am so stoked for whatever they do next.
They're just one of those bands where everything they touch is gold, at least in my humble opinion
@TeCrayShawn Johnson its not that good sadly the two singles suck. Compared to this and Owls. i heard a third song that sounds like old Rivers like Suntold but very slim hope they are focusing on simpler melodies and not at technical solos or outros its honestly amazes me the step back they took when they were playing the "Pink Floyd of Metal".
it happened to me that I knew them by Owls, and took a while to listen this and the first album... I found them more difficult to listen than Owls, but now I think they are, at least. as good as it... Ears just need time to appreciate it xD
Still, I find the last album, Works, by far not as good as the previous 3, unfortunately.
good voice. nice tone on the guitars. good songs. hmmmm. i'd say that makes these guys an awesome band! tight as hell and something i can put on and fall asleep to and also go work out to.
This album is phenomenal. Wow.
One of the best albums I've ever heard. And in some parts also one of the loudest kick drum mixes I've ever heard 😂
This album was like much needed
Personally got back into tech-death beause of this one
I can't stop coming back to this one.
OMFG!! What the fuck is this!?? 😲😍 I heard about this band with a couple of songs from their last album but this one is a destroyer!!!
That intro was tasty as hell.
That taste is just the appetizer, the full course meal will leave you full and satisfied, so save room for desert.
I think that Terrestria II is one of the most beautiful song ever made by a metal band
If you like that, check out plague flowers the kaleidoscope by Ne Obliviscaris
@@suveersingh2871 okay thanks !
Terrestria I: Thraw is awesome as well (from The Conscious Seed of Light)
@@b-rg7516 agree
@@suveersingh2871 that is an awesome recommendation... One more: Cult of Luna - Finland... it is different, but you may like it as well.
Very cool that this band dropped an album this year. Owls was incredible, I expect nothing less here.
This is an album from 2015. I think it’s just a rerelease.
But it’s still excellent and worth listening to
the work:XDD
THE BEST ALBUM EVEEER !!!
Dude 2020 is like the best year in metal in ages.
you know this isn't a new album, right?
This shits been out for a while bro...shiws how much you know
@@lucasbrucas9632 and you disagree with my comment or what?
@@frenchtoast2319 no, 2020 is a great year for metal, but that's a weird fucking comment on an album from 2015 lmao
@@lucasbrucas9632 well glad we could share a laugh then lol. \m/
Hopefully this will become more popular when 'The Work' comes out.
Yeah I've returned back to this and Owls. Not an edgy elite metalist, but this is quite soothing unlike the nu prog metal stuff they are recently putting out.
@DecrepitOrigin888 I don't like it ad much either, but it has the best production and DAW smarts from any other album
@@joyshaitan 100% agree with you, I found The Work disappointing, but I find the first 3 albums brilliant
@@joyshaitan This album blows The Work out of the water, The Work is an atrocious album...I really hope it's just a one-off album and they return to form, I hope the mixed reviews cause these guys to re-evaluate their change in style. Monarchy and Where Owls Know My Name are by far their best albums, The Work was a huuuge disappointment...
Monarchy is their best album imo and The Work is their worst album imo!
Este y el where owls know my name son los mejores albums de la banda, unas verdaderas joyas
the first one is pretty good as well
Ancestral= A Poem About An Old Prison Man(Decapitated).
c'est forcément trop bien !
28:45
Monarchy’s outro be like..
niesamowite brzmienie no w huj napierdala konkretos...
Great album, Thank You!
One of the most potent, beautiful annihilations of religion ever. This and everything else you produce are just phenomenal.
A pleasure for my ears ! (Edward)
I AM SUNTOOOOOOOLD
One of my favorites.
FANTASTIC album!!
great stuff..really well done .
drummer’s bass pedal goes absolute berserk during Suntold. it’s so epic, i sometimes lose my mind over it when I’m tweaking lol
Damn man.
Tweaking?
Get on the blood alch % / weed.
Much tamer, you'll live longer to see more albums being released.
Let alone not having scatterbrain.
Tough to stop once you’re brain has been popped. I tell myself idc if it’s bad for me..handful of times = feared death was incoming and every time i squeal like a fucking piggy as my ❤️ sputters to see another day
Sand Baptism 🤘🤘🏿🤘🏻🤘🏿🤘🏻🇧🇷
🤘👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹🤘 Znakomity świetny doskonały zajebisty mocarny potężny genialny kapitalny album petarda ogień bomba pod każdym względem super super
Tak
Jest git 👍
Their best album and what got me into the band. Where Owls Know My Name was decent but not so into their new direction.
I see tons of praise for Owls and though it had some shining moments it just felt too watered down and predictable at times with less complex structures/riffs and the brutal heaviness just didn't match the level set with Monarchy.
I’m with you, man. I first listened to Owls based on the hype. Loved it, put it on my eBay list immediately, etc. I’m just hearing this album for the first time now, and I think I like it better!
this is amazing! 🤤
Their best album
I think the same, although Owlz is by far the more mature and interesting album musically. I like the songs and flow on Monarchy still better.
this is perfection
Amazing!!!!!!
YES
Fuck.... (Pardon the wordiness of my review of this eargasm..."I could float here forever...."). Spoiler Alert: At some point this album ends and life sucks again.
Great stuff 🤘🤘 i wait
@Jacek Sky dajesz ja tu jestem
@@januszjankes6423 spoko to będzie super premiera
My dumbass is so tired i thought they released a new album and i was pissed why i didn't know anything about it 😂 i looked in the desc and realized im just an idiot
Just curious, what exactly are the "Rivers of Nihil" and what is the background story or history?
Google it.
@@3van1993 "the continuation of a neutral flow of retaining emptiness; humble, egoless…"...hmm different, I suppose.
Not bad!
Top muito bom
damn it, i thought this was a new album until i saw the album art lol.
Very good muito muito bom
This is fanfuckingtastic!
Very Metal song titles..
Insano insanity
Goddamn that’s too good.
Damn this is so good!
Joyasaaaa
Received this album today. Went for the cool Vinyl repress edition.
Im the "like" #2000 :D
This album is so good wtf
Ribeirão do Pinhal Pr, BRASIL. METAL NA VEIA 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Why is it premiering when its been out forever
It is sort of odd but at the same time these lads deserve more exposure. Monarchy and Owls are both masterpieces.
We recently repressed vinyl and the band will be chatting live during the premiere. Feel free to drop by!
@@metalbladerecords Will you be doing a repress for 'Where owls know my name' ? Would love to get one.
@@Kurt_Grech I'm also interested on that.
@@manueltavares5967 I'm also interested but I'm poor.
Parabéns congratulations
These boys are somethin else, lemme tell you what.
Damnit, Bobby...
Perfeito perfect
th-cam.com/video/O15VH77Sx2Q/w-d-xo.html sounds a lot like Machine Head - The Burning Red, one of my most beloved songs. It would be awesome if that was Rivers of Nihil's inspiration.
what?! they did it again - just in time for Halloween too :)xo
This was released 6 years ago.
UAL
This album blows The Work out of the water, The Work is an atrocious album...I really hope it's just a one-off album and they return to form, I hope the mixed reviews cause these guys to re-evaluate their change in style. Monarchy and Where Owls Know My Name are by far their best albums, The Work was a huuuge disappointment...
Man! I was just coming here to say this. I’m listening to the album now. I forgot how good it is.
Oh man! Huge disappointment for sure. Their last album was. I don’t even know where to begin.
@@Tyle_Pulitzer what do you mean bruh?
For real for real. The band said their 4th album was going to be the final chapter to the “seasons”. seed of Consciousness is spring, monarchy is summer & owls is fall. was looking forward to the winter concept from these guys but holy crap they recorded the most boring and non-Rivers of Nihil album possible. they toned everything down and meh
I liked the work personally Its good when a band can do more than one thing keeps them interesting
Que onda?
I’m tired of the Cookie Monster vocals. I need to find some bands that can play AND actually sing.
this is the band all these nu-core kids are losing their mind over? sounds like meshugga crossed with some shitty prog/tech
Why the hate though aren't we all a big family .. this isnt cardi B..
Like Meshuggah? Cute, it's there is guitars right? lmao this guy.
Don't bring Meshuggah into this.
More like Decapitated the whole conception... some tracks such as Sand Baptism is similar to new wave Behemoth ,vocals similar to Nergals voice. Some JFAC vibe thru bass for me!
I dunno how u have discovered Meshuggah here, maybe the guitar tune hop ups stimes like that . Give the band a few more listening , they aren't bad !