Live Nation Presents FALSE REALITY with support from OVERPOWER live Downstairs at The Dome

False Reality are a band that not only see the wood from the trees, but they tear it out from the roots themselves. On November 14th 2025, the London based four piece will release their devastating debut album, Faded Intentions, on Hassle Records. Across 12 tracks, the London band fuse UK beatdown violence with NYC hardcore, thrash, metal, grunge and shoegaze; inspired by seminal artists from their own musical timelines via the likes of Madball, Terror, Trapped Under Ice, Metallica, Deftones and Sepultura. 

After recruiting producer Steve Sears Jr (Gallows, TRC) for their 2024 EP, Path of Self Destruct, False Reality returned to Sears for Faded Intentions. The result is full-bodied contemporary hardcore that integrates thrash-imbued riffs, layered ambience, confrontational vocals and dynamic song structures. The album is led by singles ‘REALITY SLIPS’, ‘FROZEN’ and ‘MIRROR’, alongside rapturously received previous singles ‘COST OF SPITE’ and ‘CRANIUM’.

Though formed in 2023, False Reality feels like a culmination of a lifetime spent in the eye of the storm. Rachel Rigby, vocalist and lyricist, started attending hardcore shows in Essex and London as a young teenager; at 21, she started hosting festivals. “There wasn’t much female representation at the time, so I felt that it was important to send a message,” Rigby says. Not long after that, she decided, “Why stop there?;” in that spirit, she formed False Reality as her first band.