The Work

by Rivers of Nihil

The Work cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 September 2021
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:28
  • Community rating: 3.39/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Work' concludes the band's ambitious seasonal concept cycle, representing the bleakness of winter through dense, emotionally exhausting progressive metal. The Pennsylvania quintet largely subdues their earlier technical death metal ferocity in favor of expansive, atmospheric soundscapes and prominent clean vocals. It functions as a harrowing, introspective examination of modern societal labor and personal burnout.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, complex, existential

Tracklist

  1. The Tower (Theme from "The Work") (4:30)
  2. Dreaming Black Clockwork (6:39)
  3. Wait (4:05)
  4. Focus (4:54)
  5. Clean (6:08)
  6. The Void from Which No Sound Escapes (6:43)
  7. MORE? (3:25)
  8. Tower 2 (1:58)
  9. Episode (7:29)
  10. Maybe One Day (7:03)
  11. Terrestria IV: Work (11:29)

Credits

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