Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
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elliootsmeuth
March 25th 2018


4011 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

It's alright. Pretty good. Gets a bit repetitive/boring after awhile and a rough listen start to finish. Found myself getting distracted and wanting to take breaks. Most of the songs are enjoyable, but only as songs. As a whole, kinda meh and kinda wears on me.

GhostB1rd
March 25th 2018


7938 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Part of me feels like I should rate this to counter the nonstop negativity itt but the average rating is already where it should be it's just you lot are so damn vocal.

Illoomorpheme
March 25th 2018


482 Comments


Tried the album again, still mad boring and bland.
I want riffs god damn it.

chug73
March 25th 2018


4649 Comments


There are riffs. Also, fucking saxaphone.

Koris
Staff Reviewer
March 26th 2018


21117 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

So, I just listened to this a few times now... here's the problem I'm having with it:



I do enjoy the sense of adventure this album has, as if you're going on an expedition of sorts (it reminds me a bit of Scale the Summit in that way). But two things are holding it back in a major way: the unfocused ADD-ridden songwriting, and how plain exhausting the album length eventually becomes. By a certain point, it just starts to sound like a bunch of random pieces matched together without much coherency. In fact, I kinda agree with Snox that the dull metal passages tend to distract from the better parts and don't blend too well with the eclectic genre-bending

Koris
Staff Reviewer
March 26th 2018


21117 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Sadly, this album just kinda bores me :/

chug73
March 26th 2018


4649 Comments


I am not a fan of the production here. There is something lifeless about it.
The songwriting is stellar at times but gets kind of bloated and pointless towards the end of the album.

DDDeftoneDDD
March 26th 2018


22161 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I can agree this may not be as good as it looks at first, after a few listens, although i think the AVG is pretty right.

pjquinones747
March 26th 2018


4240 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

I just realized that RoN is opening for Dying Fetus in my town this weekend and now I'm definitely fucking going. I haven't been to a good metal show in a couple years now.

DDDeftoneDDD
March 26th 2018


22161 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

now isn't that great!? give us some feedback! I missed this Saturday Immolation+Full of Hell... ): ):....i'm left with Machinehead this month...

pjquinones747
March 26th 2018


4240 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Daaaaaaaaaamn that's rough dude. I would kill to see that live. I haven't had interest in live shows for a while now since not many of the bands I really have been digging have been coming to my town but it's about to get good. Obituary, Pallbearer, and Skeletonwitch in May, Neurosis, Converge, and Amenra in July, and I think there was another in July or August that is supposed to be really good that I'm not remembering at the moment.

DDDeftoneDDD
March 26th 2018


22161 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Get outta here!



Neurosis, Converge, and Amenra would blow my mind. Obituary, Pallbearer must be great gigs to...

pjquinones747
March 26th 2018


4240 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

I think the Neurosis gig is the "other" one I was thinking of. And yeah! I'm betting Pallbearer is a trip live, as will be Obituary.

inthox
March 26th 2018


260 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

htf can u r8 this album 2. like fo real. frikken sputnik elitists with their subjective crydom ratings

ramon.
March 27th 2018


4184 Comments


There are people in this thread who’ve 4d this who agree that the production sucks or that the writing is bland or that it lacks riffs and some of us like those aspects of an album to not suck

SteakByrnes
March 27th 2018


29751 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

This like a 3.3

NeurOHMancer
March 27th 2018


53 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

that song with the sax solo is...what's the right word?...

TRANSCENDENTAL.



definitely the album to play for cthulhu's awakening...

0GuyMan0
March 27th 2018


4616 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I certainly don't think anything about this is transcendent, but good at least.

Astral Abortis
March 27th 2018


6731 Comments


Yes

MarsKid
Emeritus
March 27th 2018


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The saxophone did not exist until brought to life in this landmark 2018 release, truly an inspiration



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