DISSIMULATOR - Alloyed (From 'Artifice Dissolves' LP, 2026)

DISSIMULATOR Alloyed From 'Artifice Dissolves' LP Releasing October 2nd, 2026 LP / CD / Digital 20buckspin.com/dissimulator https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album... 1. Apophenic Rage 2. Hungry Ghosts 3. Artifice Dissolves 4. Alloyed 5. Proprioceptor 6. Dusk 7. Neon Metropolis 8. Anodyne 9. Robostrobos “‘Alloyed’ is a philosophical musing about Günther Anders’ concept of Promethean shame - the idea that deep down human beings feel inferior or diminished against the perfection of their technological creations. The song highlights the band’s syncopated riffing style chugging in lockstep with the lyrics, which describe this self-alienation metaphorically through the motivations and consequences of undergoing a procedure to become fully cybernetic. It is a reminder that the real danger of our relationship to technology is not that machines will surpass humans, but that humans will lower themselves to machines.” - 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