Bloodstock Festival Countdown : 30 Bands Not To Miss
29 – Rivers of Nihil - Ronnie James dio stage - lunchtime Sunday
For all those who proclaim that death metal all sounds the same, I give you Rivers of Nihil, the progressive avant-garde death metal outfit bringing something different to the genre. And that something different is sax. Forget all your presumptions and perceptions, the saxophone is indeed a metal instrument and gives Rivers of Nihil an astonishing extra dimension of texture and cohesion. It sounds wrong buy believe us it feels so right.
I just love Metal. I love it all. The bombastity of symphonic, the brutality of death, the rousing choruses of power, the nihilistic evil of black, the pounding atmospherics of doom, the whirling time changes of prog, the faithful familiarity of trad, the other worldlyness of post, the sheer unrefined power of thrash. I love it all!