When Riverside released their seventh album, , in 2018, they did so under a veil of mourning. The Polish band’s first proper release since guitarist and founding member Piotr Grudziński died two years earlier, was their darkest album to that point. Its central concept of survivors trying to stay alive in a wrecked, desolate post-apocalyptic world was a thinly veiled allegory for the band’s own loss. The sense of reflected a band still wrestling with bereavement as they embarked on a journey towards healing.
