Review
Dissimulator have engineered the year’s most ruthlessly disciplined technical thrash record. Where kindred speed-merchants often sacrifice momentum for gratuitous fretboard gymnastics, the Montreal trio integrate high-velocity precision directly into the sinew of the songwriting. Every hairpin tempo shift and tangled chord progression serves the forward thrust rather than breaking it.
Guitarist Claude Leduc threads hyper-kinetic riffing through sudden, churning half-time grooves, punctuated by mechanized vocoder textures on "Hungry Ghosts" and "Neon Metropolis". Beneath the lacerating distortion, Antoine Daigneault’s rapid basslines weave audibly through the fray while drummer Philippe Boucher maintains an agile, punishing clockwork, answering frantic blast passages with sudden rhythmic pivots. The resulting mechanical pressure remains unyielding, but the trio's structural clarity never dissolves beneath the sheer speed.
