DISSIMULATOR - Artifice Dissolves (Full Album) 20 Buck Spin

DISSIMULATOR 'Artifice Dissolves' Released October 2nd, 2026 LP / CD / Digital 20buckspin.com/dissimulator https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album... 1. Apophenic Rage (0:00) 2. Hungry Ghosts (5:07) 3. Artifice Dissolves (10:58) 4. Alloyed (18:08) 5. Proprioceptor (23:18) 6. Dusk (28:56) 7. Neon Metropolis (30:07) 8. Anodyne (35:59) 9. Robostrobos (38:55) “Inspired by reveries borne of nighttime strolls in Montreal, ‘Neon Metropolis’ depicts a flaneur meandering through an autonomous megacity. A hymn-like chorus underscores the mood of alienated despair while the song’s urgent cadence mimics human and machine bustling to the restless beat of the cybernetic hive. This city is not made for human life; it is without community; without history; without finality. Those who adapt see themselves reduced to mere utility, while the rest are condemned to haunt the shadows of the system’s forgotten crevices. It is the untenable result of life being in service to ever greater technological efficiency and development, rather than directing technical knowledge for the purposes of life." - Claude Leduc, Dissimulator With ‘Artifice Dissolves’, Montreal's Dissimulator accelerate beyond the formidable sonic coordinates established by ‘Lower Form Resistance’ and plunge headlong into a future world where technological hegemony and catastrophic entropy exist in perfect equilibrium. Their jagged sci-fi Death-Thrash has evolved into an ever more labyrinthine construct, fusing serrated riff matrices and volatile rhythmic architecture into an algorithm-obliterating neural hack. ‘Artifice Dissolves’ propels itself like an untethered artificial consciousness recursively rewriting its own code, with each movement revealing another phantasmagorical dimension within Dissimulator's bionic mythology. Razor-wire guitar lines, alien yet familiar, whiplash and intersect at impossible angles whilst the rhythm section drives songs like ‘Alloyed’ and ‘Neon Metropolis’ through perpetual states of intensifying velocity, collapse, and reassembly, creating a surging sense of momentum undeterred by its relentless intricacy. An awe-inspiring convergence of futuristic world-building and unrestrained, unapologetic technical aggression, ‘Artifice Dissolves’ is a cyborg hallucination of a civilization wasting away in the sunless gutters of its autonomous megacities, the warped fever dreams of an omniscient God-machine, and the malignant side-effects of its cybernetic enhancements. And beneath the album's dazzling precision and violent thrust Dissimulator maintain a timeless human striving for order and transcendence beyond the technological. Phillipe Boucher - Drums Claude Leduc - Guitar / Vocals Antoine Daigneault - Bass Additional vocals in Artifice, Alloyed, Proprioceptor by Laurent Bellemare Drums records by Xavier Berthiaume at Productions Tehom Reamping, mixing, mastering by Hugues Deslauriers at Roarrrsoundsstudio Artwork by Noah Cutter Meihoff Layout by Audrey Pasquini - Bangs! Studio Photography by Kristel Boucher