RIVERS OF NIHIL guitarist Brody Uttley is offering guitar lessons while the band is on tour from September-December this year! Fans/aspiring guitarists can sign up for a lesson via Brody’s profile on bandhappy.com. Visit bandhappy.com/profile/Brody to sign up and to see when RIVERS OF NIHIL will be in your area.
The band will be live streaming their rehearsal on Thursday, September 18th as they prepare for their two upcoming tours. Fans will be able to interact with the band and watch them practice via youtube.com/riversofnihilpa. The rehearsal will also include a brief Q&A. Subscribe to the RIVERS OF NIHIL youtube channel today to stay up to date and to be the first to see future videos and google hangouts!
RIVERS OF NIHIL will be touring this September-October with fellow Reading natives, Black Crown Initiate. The Reading Rainbow Tour will begin on September 19th in Buffalo, New York and winds its way through Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky before wrapping up on October 3rd in their home town. Additionally, RIVERS OF NIHIL have also been added as the openers to Death (DTA Tours) Swamp Leper Stomp ’14 tour in November with Obituary and Massacre.
RIVERS OF NIHIL The Reading Rainbow Tour w/ Black Crown Initiate:
9/19/2014 The Waiting Room – Buffalo, NY
9/20/2014 Blackthorn 51 – Queens, NY
9/21/2014 Bogie’s – Albany, NY
9/22/2014 Saint Vitus – Brooklyn, NY
9/23/2014 Simon’s – Providence, RI
9/24/2014 The Barbary – Philadelphia, PA
9/25/2014 The Token Lounge – Westland, MI
9/26/2014 The Foundry – Lakewood, OH
9/27/2014 The Loft – Lansing, MI
9/28/2014 Thompson House – Newport, KY
10/2/2014 The Champ – Lemoyne, PA
10/3/2014 Reverb – Reading, PA
End Tour
11/10/2014 Dirty Dog Bar – Austin, TX
11/11/2014 The Rail Club – Fort Worth, TX
11/13/2014 LVCS – Las Vegas, NV
RIVERS OF NIHIL on Death’s (DTA Tours) Swamp Leper Stomp ’14
w/ Obituary, Massacre:
11/14/2014 Club Nokia Los Angeles, CA
11/15/2014 Ramona Mainstage – Ramona, CA
11/16/2014 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
11/18/2014 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
11/19/2014 The Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC w/ Untimely Demise
11/21/2014 MacEwan Ballroom – Calgary, AB w/ Untimely Demise
11/22/2014 Riddell Centre – Regina, SK w/ Untimely Demise
11/23/2014 Park Theatre – Winnipeg, MB w/ Untimely Demise
11/24/2014 Amsterdam Bar & Hall – St. Paul, MN w/ Untimely Demise
11/25/2014 The Metro – Chicago, IL
11/26/2014 Agora Theatre and Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
11/27/2014 The Opera House – Toronto, ON
11/28/2014 Club Soda – Montreal, QC
11/29/2014 Brighton Music Hall – Allston, MA
11/30/2014 Best Buy Theatre – New York, NY
12/03/2014 Empire – North Springfield, VA
12/04/2014 Tremont Music Hall – Charlotte, NC
12/05/2014 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
12/06/2014 Orpheum – Tampa, FL
12/07/2014 Grand Central – Miami, FL
Earlier this year, RIVERS OF NIHIL released a video for “Birth Of The Omnisavior,” a sleek and dark video that captures visually what this band does so well sonically: play emboldened, deftly-executed death metal at a level far beyond their years. Watch “Birth Of The Omnisavior” from their album The Conscious Seed Of Light now at THIS LOCATION.
Formed in 2009, the modern progressive death metal quintet’s music is as dark and heavy as the coal and iron their home city was built upon, taking influences from some of death metal’s heaviest, most abrasive hitters like Morbid Angel, Gojira, Spawn Of Possession and Decapitated. RIVERS OF NIHIL‘s debut album, The Conscious Seed Of Light, was recorded in March of 2013 at Mana Recording Studios in Florida with famed metal producer/musician Erik Rutan. While The Conscious Seed Of Light is not necessarily a concept album traditionally speaking, RIVERS OF NIHIL began their project with the idea that they would release four separate albums tied together with one common theme, each reflecting a particular season of a year. Bassist Adam Biggs elaborates; “The Conscious Seed Of Light is intended to be representative of spring and explores various themes concerning new beginnings, growth, and an attachment to the natural world in a post-human Earth. Unlike some concept records however, we wanted to allow each song to work on its own terms. Rather than have the songs rely on each other to move a specific story structure forward; they work within their own separate narratives, but ultimately serve the album’s broader concept.”
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