DIRELANDS is an American heavy metal band from Houston, Texas. Drawing inspiration from all genres of metal, tapping into the zeitgeist of doom, and a prevailing dystopic worldview, we craft apocalyptic songs that couple crushing riffs with aggressive, soaring harmonies and thundering beats. Our aim is to transport the listener across time and see what they can bring back from the beyond the abyss.
Produced against the backdrop of the pandemic, the band’s self-titled, self-produced debut EP is offered to society as a soundtrack for the end times. Throughout the EP, elements from familiar metal genres -- thrash, doom, progressive -- are adopted, interpreted, and successively rejected as the listener travels through the modern Hellscape that is the DIRELANDS. The result is a heavy musical blend that challenges the listener to revisit assumptions about metal today. DIRELANDS: The Cave You Fear is a testament to vision and collaboration, and marks the band as one to watch.
