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RIVERS OF NIHIL Premiere ‘The Void From Which No Sound Escapes’ Music Video
September 29th, 2021

Reading, Pennsylvania-based technical death metal band Rivers Of Nihil have filmed a music video for new track ‘The Void From Which No Sound Escapes’. Directed by David Brodsky and Allison Woest for MyGoodEye, the clip can be viewed below.

Speaking about the song, guitarist Brody Uttley said: “‘The Void From Which No Sound Escapes’ is a song that was put together pretty early in the writing process for The Work. It features some familiar sounds that people have come to expect from our band, while also highlighting some new sounds and textures that we’ve never experimented with before.”

Rivers Of Nihil issued fourth full-length studio album The Work on September 24th, 2021 through Metal Blade Records.

The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.

Guitars, synths and keyboards for The Work were tracked at the home studio of member Brody Uttley. Rivers Of Nihil then went for the third time in a row to Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland at Atrium Audio for the tracking of the drums, vocals, bass, and sax, as well as mixing duties.

“We’ve done so many sessions with those guys that they’re basically an extension of our band at this point. They usually know what we like, and we always encourage them to roast us to make stuff better,” commented Uttley.

Alongside the band, James Dorton from Black Crown Initiate provided some vocals on ‘Episode’, Grant McFarland played cello on ‘The Void From Which No Sound Escapes’, and Uttley’s friend Stephan Lopez helped out with all of the field recordings. Zach Strouse provided baritone, soprano and alto saxophone parts.

Cover artwork was designed by Dan Seagrave.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘The Tower (Theme from ‘The Work’)’
02. ‘Dreaming Black Clockwork’
03. ‘Wait’
04. ‘Focus’
05. ‘Clean’
06. ‘The Void From Which No Sound Escapes’
07. ‘MORE?’
08. ‘Tower 2’
09. ‘Episode’
10. ‘Maybe One Day’
11. ‘Terrestria IV: Work’

Rivers Of Nihil’s line-up is as follows:

Jake Dieffenbach (vocals)
Brody Uttley (guitars and keyboards)
Jon Topore (guitars)
Adam Biggs (bass and vocals)
Jared Klein (drums)

The Work was made available in the following coloured vinyl formats; 180g black (EU exclusive), silver with blue and black splatter (EU exclusive – limited to 500 copies), – natural clear with black and red splatter (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies), crystal clear with white and turquoise splatter vinyl (Kings Road exclusive – limited to 200 copies), red and white melt (EMP exclusive – limited to 200 copies), transparent orange with black swirls (Eyesore exclusive – limited to 300 copies), silver / black marbled (Impericon exclusive – limited to 200 copies), aqua blue / canary yellow galaxy (US exclusive), and white / cyan blue galaxy (US exclusive).

Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘Clean’ and ‘Focus’. In addition, an official instrumental playthrough video was released for the song ‘MORE?’. All three clips can also be viewed below.

Third studio record Where Owls Know My Name was released in March 2018 via Metal Blade.

Promotional photograph by Mike Truehart.