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.