Disorientation

Disorientation is a DIY Dark Symphonic Metal band from Montreal, Canada, created by Marie-Claude Fleury (vocals/oboe/english horn/drum programming) and Daniel Daris (bass/guitar).

While other symphonic acts portray beauty, wonder and grace, Disorientation takes you down a path of troubling disarray, crippling misery and severe anguish you can’t escape from.

The idea of the band had been floating around for a few years, with song fragments written here and there but it’s at the beginning of 2020 that Marie-Claude and Dan really got serious and started establishing the foundation of their unpolished sound driven by oboe orchestral passages and vocals that are harsh, vulnerable and everything in between.

Disorientation strives to combine the abrasiveness of old death/thrash metal with the symphonic elements introduced by European bands in the late 90s/early 00s to create depressive music with simple riffs that go for emotion and a vocal delivery that can be harsh, vulnerable, and everything in between.

This band's goal is to be the extreme opposite of what most Metal bands try to reach, by using and putting the human element forward. They step aside predetermined chord progressions, verse-chorus-verse-chorus structures, and the separateness between clean and distorted vocals to create songs that are disconcerting, unpolished, dissonant, unique and memorable.