Rhine – An Outsider (2016)
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Contact: PR Rep – Jon Asher – ashermedia(@)gmail.com
Radio Tracking: – radiotrackingashermedia(@)gmail.com
RhineOfficial.com | Facebook | Soundcloud | Youtube | Bandcamp
Download High Res Photo | Download Album Cover
For fans of Opeth, Devin Townsend, Enslaved, Dan Swano/Edge of Sanity/Witherscape, Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, Between The Buried And Me, Insomnium, Hypocrisy
“it’s a red-hot blast of progressive death metal, both pavement-fracturing and head-spinning” -No Clean Singing
“It’s one thing to record this kind of adventurous, rapidly changing music in a studio. It’s another thing to pull it off live — and these dudes really pulled it off. I thought they were electrifying and I’d see them again in a heartbeat.” – No Clean Singing
“Gabriel Tachell has impressed me with not only his talent as a player, but how he could make this release (Duality) feel so much like a unified band effort while doing everything himself.” – Target Audience Magazine
“Rhine is unafraid of boundaries. The music is played superbly and there is never a doubt that a single note has gone astray.” -Target Audience Magazine
“Watch out for the outlaws of extreme metal: Rhine…mavericks of prog/extreme metal.” – Metal Bulletin Zine
“I am totally into Rhine!!! An Outsider is an incredible album with so many dynamics, changes and plain ole genre mashing.. but seamless and darkly perfect! ” – Metal Rises In The East – Metal Nation Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIIW1sCXShw
[Download Album Cover]
Track Listing of Album: RHINE – An Outsider
1. Dreaming of Death (11:46)
2. The Spell of Dark Water (6:20)
3. An Outsider (10:05)
4. Somewhere (3:59)
5. Paralyzed (10:50)
6. Dissolved in Fire (7:53)
7. P.R.E.Y. (5:31)
8. Into the Unknown (6:34)
9. Shipwrecked In Stasis (3:02)
10. Fragments (8:21)
Album Credits:
• All songs performed by: Gabe Tachell and Sean Lang
• All songs written by: Gabe Tachell
• Produced by: Gabe Tachell
• Mixed by: Gabe Tachell
• Mastered by: Jamie King @ The Basement Recording NC
Album Band Line Up: Gabe Tachell, Sean Lang
Live Band Line Up: Gabe Tachell, Alex Smolin, Carlos Delgado, James Porter
L-R – Gabe Tachell – Guitar/Vocals, James Porter – Bass, Carlos Delgado – Drums, Alex Smolin – Guitar – Photo Credit – Megan Treasure – MeganTreasure.com [Download High Res Photo]
Seattle’s Rhine are seamlessly connecting German thrash metal with Swedish death metal much like their namesake, the Rhine River. The founder of the group Gabriel Tachell named it such for its simplicity and as a metaphor for fluidity and change. The band started in 2011 with the release of their first album ‘Duality’ which was at first a solo effort by Tachell (guitar and vocals) and eventually led to a full band. He is now joined by Alex Smolin on guitar (ex-Metameric), James Porter on bass (Ideofone), and Carlos Delgado (Inferion, ex-Death Crowned King) to collaborate on this project.
Rhine are primarily producing epic, progressive songs and yet others flow to the mouth of the river where there is a culmination of black, death, and thrash metal, occasionally tinged with classical, folk and other styles. The band has a certain frantic unpredictability in terms of songwriting and structure while the moody vocals gently ride over the extreme precision of the guitar, drum, and bass. The four-piece are experimental in their intentions, yet melodically and rhythmically catchy with the delivery. Tachell is the primary inspiration for the current material, referencing experiences in his life from emotional turmoil, health issues, fairy tales, to dreams of finding corpses floating in a swamp. Their interesting themes and energetic music has been evolving into a unique and distinctive sound.
Live, Rhine is an unbridled horse that emotes a nervous uncertainty of what is next compositionally and emotionally. The band bases their performance on the backbone of the band — guitar, vocals, bass, and drums, and they definitely don’t shy away from the challenges of playing music like this live without the help of backing tracks. Their latest release ‘An Outsider’ is slated for February 5, 2016 and while it may not be heavier than the previous release, it is certainly more advanced in terms of playing, songwriting, vocal performance and production. It includes tracks featuring german lyrics, completely improvised solos and an overall human-ness that is often lost amongst other high level metal productions in this age of quantizing and autotuning. Rhine are one band that has grown into a machine that is not to be missed.
Band founder Gabe Tachell comments on the album:
“The name An Outsider is about the struggle that comes with being different, it’s a love/hate situation. You want to shine but you’re afraid of it at the same time. You want to create trends, not follow them, but it’s scary to be the first one. It also has to do with social struggles and always feeling like a stranger. This theme is primarily represented by the title track. Many of the songs have different themes that are not all closely related. The album is all over the map emotionally. Not just angry and dark, but sometimes totally ironic or sometimes very deep and inspiring. It mixes in emotions you wouldn’t typically hear on a metal record like joy and nostalgia. The listening experience is a journey that won’t get you worn out on a single emotion, instead it is dynamic like we are as humans. We form strong bonds to the music we love because of all these things that it can convey, and we are attempting to create something people can feel the same way about.”
Discography:
2016 – An Outsider LP
2011 – Duality LP
List of bands you have shared stage with: Sepultura, Insomnium, Arsis, Destruction, Omnium Gatherum
ashermediarelations.com 
