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REPLICANT

Tech/Extreme Prog Metal • United States


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Hailing from New Brunswick, New Jersey, REPLICANT are an American technical death metal trio operating since 2014. The group began as a quartet featuring vocalist and guitarist Michael GONCALVES (of WINDFAERER), guitarist Peter LLOYD (ex-DYSTROPHY and occasional WINDFAERER collaborator), the bassist known as TG (or Tom; of DEATH FORTRESS) and drummer Matthew THOMPSON (also formerly of DYSTROPHY). REPLICANT play a forward-thinking brand of dissonant death metal informed by GORGUTS, RIPPING CORPSE, DEMILICH and VOIVOD as well as hardcore punk.

The group made their debut with 2016's "Worthless Desires" EP. TG left the band shortly thereafter, and GONCALVES would take over bass duties. Now a trio, REPLICANT released their debut album "Negative Life" in 2018 and a split with grindcore duo BAYHT LAHM the year later. GONCALVES' WINDFAERER bandmate James APPLEGATE replaced THOMPSON and made his debut on the 2019 two-track EP "Hypochondria of the Machine". REPLICANT released a song via a four-way split with like-minded bands CRYPTIC SHIFT, INOCULATION and ASTRAL TOMB on 2020's "Chasm of Aeons", and the following year saw the band issue their acclaimed sophomore "Malignant Reality" via Transcending Obscurity Records. The album, more ambitious and ferocious than their prior work, contained cameos by THANK YOU SCIENTIST violinist Ben KARAS, former DYSTROPHY (and current HATH) guitarist Peter BROWN and TOMBS frontman Mike HILL.

REPLICANT have been compared to NEGATIVA, SUNLESS, ULCERATE, DISKORD, BURNT BY THE SUN, NORSE and PYRRHON.

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Negative Life
2018
3.87 | 4 ratings
Malignant Reality
2021
4.00 | 1 ratings
Infinite Mortality
2024

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Worthless Desires
2016
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Hypochondria of the Machine
2019
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Welcome to New Jersey
2019
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Unbeing
2020

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 Malignant Reality by REPLICANT album cover Studio Album, 2021
3.87 | 4 ratings

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Malignant Reality
Replicant Tech/Extreme Prog Metal

Review by DamoXt7942
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4 stars Such a good work encourages and motivates us. A New Jersey-based technical death metal combo REPLICANT have already been sorta experienced project (active for almost a decade) but "Malignant Reality" was released as their second full-length opus in 2021. I've bumped into them on the Bandcamp website and got immersed in their consistent attitude in this creation.

The prologue "Caverns Of Insipid Reflection" is a dynamo. Outstanding power and energy should knock you down to the earth. You can enjoy and get absorbed in complicated rhythmic and melodic mixtures, lacking unity. The more ununited their musical circumstances are, the more attractive their soundscape will be, mysteriously. "Coerced To Be" is full of their fascinating musical essence - Authentic art metallic appearances and AxCx-ish audaciously quirky quickness. This track is stuffed fully with their great intention and character. Anyway in "Rabid Future" mystic flavour launched via twin guitars in the former part is pretty charming like an oasis in a huge desert. Regardless of a horrible title, "Death Curse" is kinda mischievous stuff with the cheap synthesizer-based opening, the main course is their flagship though. Amazing is such a musical, melodic, rhythmic diversity.

Yes there is not only crazy speedy but also stabilized down to the earth. You can notice it whilst listening to "Ektoskull" blended with downtempo dark industrial metal preciosity and upbeated flamboyant instrumental technology. Sounds like all instruments, especially guitars run around and around in the three-time 'short' track. And such a vigorous reverberation is followed by the epilogue "The Ubiquity Of Time". The longest last run is extreme and aggressive too. The first texture is quiet but disquieting, massively with discordance and dissonance. Sudden death heaviness kills you. Mike's voices are just like infernal shouts or barkings in the distance to strengthen your mental instability. However, such an excessive dissection of sound intoxicates you in an impressive manner. What a poisonous addiction.

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