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August 1st, 2021 // Riding Along The Wastelands (Latest Single)
New product release by Black Harbor Sound featuring: Rithiya Khiev
Rithiya Khiev & Killer Sound Production Join Forces!
Xvive & Sweetwater // Latest Single Featured // GearFest OnlinE 2020!!!
Photo By: Matthew Woodyard
June 15, 2020 // New release // Travesties From Closure
After two long years of supporting my 2nd release “The Eviscerated Realm”. Now the time feels right to release a new single for 2020! To help support my release click the button below for more details! You can vote my new song to be aired on radio, share links, and find out how to interact with me on social media!
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April 1, 2020 // EVISCERATED Realm Featured on Metal Hammer Portugal
“The general message with this album is that music truly is an art form at its purest overall. It shouldn’t be a medium that restricts creative minds to a genre or niche market just to launch content but, to have an open mind, because in the end. It’s all orchestrated sound waves. Music has the ability to be dynamic and to portray emotions without words, because they’re times when words cannot describe a feeling properly.”
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Photo By: Rev Aaron
Feb 10, 2020 // DirtBag Clothing Endorsement!!!
winter namm 2020 // Live performance // lizard spit polish
Video By Jen Elizabeth (Solo Artist & Vocalist for Mimesis)
Oct 14. 2019 // Live Performance // Ralph’s Rock Diner
“Lighting, visuals and amazing music creates an amazing live set that must be seen and heard! Seen Rithiya last night at Ralph's in Worcester, Mass. Great live set by him and his new band-mates.”
- Dennis Morrow (Maridon Productions) -
MAY 26, 2019 // NEW ENDORSEMENT // CONVENANT CABLES
Proud to announce that I'm now officially apart of the Covenant Cable Family! I’ve been following this company for a good year now and really like what they have to offer for their artists. The construction is top tier with a lifetime warranty. I highly recommend CC cables.
WINTER NAMM 2019 PERFORMANCE AT THE AIRIS EFFECTS BOOTH
(NEW) METALREVIEWS.com - USA
“As much the last three tracks are creative freedom impersonated, the closer Blackened Heart is probably the most diverse. From tribal to symphonic massive to thrashy to symphonic again, the composition eventually becomes apocalyptic traversing through multiple planes. Intricate solos not distracting from the overall flow, Blackened Heart blows out into a soaring spacious epic only to close with some classic inspired chamber music.”
(NEW) WE ROCK WEBZINE (REVIEW) - United Kingdom
“Each song was inspired by thoughts that have lingered in my mind for quite some time, along with some life events I was going through. I guess you could say that this is a soundtrack correlating towards each event. I was aiming for an emotion interpreted through just instrumental music. I want the listeners to feel like they’re going on a journey. To just close their eyes and visualize the foot steps with their imagination with each song.”
(NEW) PERMAFROST TODAY MAGAZINE (pUBLICATION) - NORWAY
(NEW) All Around Metal (Review) - italy
“Normally I can hardly listen to an entire instrumental disc, especially if it is so particular and original, but this time I have to congratulate Rithiya Henry Khiev because each listening then needed to press the "play" button again.”
WORCESTER TELEGRAM NEWSPAPER
“It’s dense, but driven by a frenetic sort of intelligence and an extraordinary amount of technical skill.”
AUGUST 20, 2018 // Blackened Heart // Eviscerated Realm
Now streaming on my YouTube Channel & Don't forget to subscribe!
AUGUST 13, 2018 // ALBUM REVIEW BY MATT COE // DEAD RHETORIC
"Eviscerated Realm elevates Rithiya as a serious player in the instrumental metal scene as he understands that balance between solid musicianship and catchy hooks, which will keep people pinned for more."
-Matt Coe
AUGUST 6, 2018 // NEW ENDORSEMENT // BLACK HARBOR STRINGS
Proud to announce that I'm now officially apart of the Black Harbor family! They're a great group to work with that started with humble beginnings and I look forward to growing with them.
JULY 23, 2018 // EVISCERATED REALM // SINGLE RELEASE!
JUNE 5, 2018 // STUDIO UPDATE // ORCHESTRATIONS COMPLETEd!
This was a fun experience. I went to town and downloaded a bunch of kontakt library packs from Sound Iron!
April 23, 2018 // Studio Update
2nd EP production is in full swing. I've decided to go with midi drums for this record to keep costs low since I will be going on tour on September to support the new release, however I'm already budgeting out for a full length release for 2019 and that will have live drums!
Photo by: Matt Bower
March 24, 2018 // Show Review // RALPH'S ROCK DINER
"Rithiya Henry Khiev (Solo Artist) got things off to a shredding start with a (mostly) instrumental set, featuring a video screen, extra stage lights and a backing band of talented musicians including Chris Dovas and Peter Albert de Reyna from Seven Spires, who each pulled double duty, and Nick DeVincentis, plus Jeff DeMarco of Solium Fatalis providing guest vocals for one of the songs. A heavy, technical and captivating set to get the proceedings off and running."
-Matt Bower (Dead Rhetoric)-
Photo By: Asim Barakzai
"Technical and delivered with flair, passion and precision this has grabbed my attention immediately, if truth be told this isn’t what I had initially imagined but rather a soundscape rich in emotion, atmosphere that drips immeasurable talent."
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"Rithiya Henry Khiev has quite a pedigree in the progressive thrash/death fields through his work in Alterius and Mortis Deveia. Securing many notable musicians across the New England metal scene and beyond,"
POWER METAL.DE "From team-player to nerd and finally to solo artist"
"Rithiya Henry Khiev is quite a freak when it comes to guitars and equipment. For quite some time, he has been helping newcomers choose their accessories on his YouTube channel, as well as keeping up-to-date with the latest developments on the market."
ZOMBIE WAR MANAGEMENT
"This EP is interesting, as it results from merging Death Metal with antagonistic musical lines, such as progressive, classical music, guitar virtuosity of a Malmsteen or a Satriani"
Front View Magazine
"Rithiya H. Khiev (Henry for short) is a studio guitar player, producer, songwriter, engineer, content creator on YouTube demonstrating guitar related gear, Solo Artist, founding member of progressive death metal project Alterius & black metal project Plaga Dominus."
Metal Brothers (Review)
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"Me ha sorprendido muy gratamente este guitarrista, no sólo por su técnica, que hay muy buenos guitarristas por el mundo adelante, sino sobre todo por la confluencia de estilos que logra, lo fluido de las composiciones, la sensibilidad y la pegada que tiene."
Variety Of Death Zine (Review)
"Rithiya H. Khiev is a very great sounding progressive, & melodic death metal solo artist and if you are a fan of this musical genre you should check out this EP."
Badger Metal Breakdown (Review)
"Right at the :39 second mark you experience one of the most infectious riffs of the year. They just build and build on this song, it is bursting at the seams with talent."