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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Matt Mills

"I had an idea for an album about people bottling Jesus's vomit." Rivers Of Nihil's Adam Biggs on concept records, working with Cannibal Corpse and not buying the hype for Metallica and Rush

Rivers Of Nihil press 2025.

Rivers Of Nihil are unlike anybody else. Prog metal mavericks, the band drafted in Cannibal Corpse guitarist Erik Rutan to produce their debut album - 2013's The Conscious Seed Of Light - and have consistently pushed the boundaries of both extremity and progressive metal with each subsequent release.

With a new self-titled album taking them to jazzier shores than ever before - and that's something - Hammer caught up with vocalist Adam Biggs to talk concepts, pony rides and why Rush are overrated.

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