RIVERS OF NIHIL guitarist Brody Uttley is offering guitar lessons, reports Metal Blade, 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.

Rivers of Nihil will be live streaming their rehearsal on Thursday, September 18 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 with the band. 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 19 in Buffalo, NY and winds its way through RI, PA, MI, OH, and KY before wrapping up on October 3rd in their home town. Rivers of Nihil have also been added as the openers to Death (DTA Tours) “Swamp Leper Stomp ’14″ tour! Additional support will come from Obituary and Massacre. This tour will kick off on November 14th at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, and wraps up on December 7 in Miami, FL at Grand Central.

RIVERS OF NIHIL
The Reading Rainbow Tour
w/ Black Crown Initiate
09/19 Buffalo, NY The Waiting Room
09/20 Queens, NY Blackthorn 51
09/21 Albany, NY Bogie’s
09/22 Brooklyn, NY Saint Vitus
09/23 Providence, RI Simon’s
09/24 Philadelphia, PA The Barbary
09/25 Westland, MI The Token Lounge
09/26 Lakewood, OH The Foundry
09/27 Lansing, MI The Loft
09/29 Newport, KY Thompson House
10/01 Pittsburgh, PA The Smiling Moose
10/02 Lemoyne, PA The Champ
10/03 Reading, PA Reverb
End Tour
11/10 Austin, TX Dirty Dog Bar
11/11 Fort Worth, TX The Rail Club
11/13 Las Vegas, NV LVCS
Swamp Leper Stomp Tour ’14
w/ Death (DTA tours), Obituary, Massacre
11/14 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
11/15 Ramona, CA Ramona Mainstage
11/16 San Francisco, CA DNA Lounge
11/18 Seattle, WA Studio Seven
11/19 Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw Theatre
11/21 Calgary, AB MacEwan Ballroom
11/22 Regina, SK Riddell Centre
11/23 Winnipeg, Man Park Theatre
11/24 St. Paul, MN Amsterdam Bar & Hall
11/25 Chicago, IL Metro
11/26 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre and Ballroom
11/27 Toronto, ON The Opera House
11/28 Montreal, QC Club Soda
11/29 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall
11/30 New York, NY Best Buy Theatre
12/03 North Springfield, VA Empire
12/04 Charlotte, NC Tremont Music Hall
12/05 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
12/06 Tampa, FL Orpheum
12/07 Miami, FL Grand Central

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: they 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 metalblade.com/riversofnihil.

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: Morbid Angel, Gojira, Spawn of Possession, and Decapitated, to name a few. 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.” Rivers of Nihil‘s lineup is rounded out by guitarists Brody Uttley and Jon Kunz, vocalist Jake Dieffenbach, and drummer Alan Balamut.

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