Extreme Escapes

Here stands a glowing example of how the best metal bands are built for the long haul. With a burgeoning reputation as one of the most exciting new death metal bands around, Rivers Of Nihil hit the ground running with their 2013 debut album, "The Conscious Seed of Light". Although squarely rooted in technical death metal album, it was very obviously the work of a band with fewer creative limits than most. Since then, the Pennsylvania quintet have made giant leaps forward with each successive studio record, culminating in 2018's widely acclaimed "Where Owls Know My Name". At that point, it became obvious that Rivers Of Nihil were following a similar trajectory to Between the Buried and Me, in that they had transformed from an extreme metal band with progressive tendencies into a progressive metal band with extreme elements…