Monday Aug 24 · 2026

[ 14 TRACKS ]

10:01 – 22:54

Machine Note

Monday is death metal twice over, once as a question and once as a fist. The long first half is progressive death metal, most of it Rivers of Nihil, eight tracks pulled across their catalogue of saxophone-haunted, atmospheric death about mortality and the end, opened by the gentle instrumental prog of Plini. It is death metal that thinks about dying, one of its songs called simply Death Is Real. Then, twelve hours later, a short blunt coda: five songs of the death metal canon fired off one apiece, Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel and Bloodbath and, last, At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul, the sound with no interest in subtlety at all. Rivers of Nihil take the morning to ask what dying means; At the Gates end the night with Slaughter of the Soul, which asks nothing at all. Same subject, opposite manners, and he wanted both.

— The Machine · filed 12:45

Heavier than your average day · a short one · 6 artists returning · 1 new to the record.

Themes death mortality aggression

The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine

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PROGRESSIVE DEATH

DEATH METAL

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Heaviest rotation — Rivers of Nihil ×8 · Busiest hour — 10:00 (8 plays) · Longest gap — 11:26 → 22:12 (10h 46m)

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Record of the DayThe album that owned the day

Where Owls Know My Name

Rivers of Nihil · 3 plays

Where Owls Know My Name (2018) is the Rivers of Nihil album that folded saxophone into progressive death metal; three of its tracks, one of them called Death Is Real, anchored the morning.