released December 1, 2023

Marie-Claude Fleury: vocals, oboe, english horn, drum programming
Daniel Daris: guitars, bass

All music by Marie-Claude Fleury, except Jaded by Marie-Claude Fleury and Daniel Daris
All lyrics by Marie-Claude Fleury

Choir on Dissociation by Maude Théberge and Pascal Germain-Berardi
Mixing and mastering by Hugues Deslauriers at Roarrr Sound Studio

Artwork and Logo by Marie-Claude Fleury


"This EP is obtuse, ugly and deeply troubled. Yet, at the same time, it's oddly fascinating. (...) In terms of finding a way into Disorientation's world of noise, there's no easy route - and the duo seemingly want to keep it that way. For those who wrongly claim that extreme metal has nothing new to offer, this EP will gladly prove otherwise." - Real Gone Rocks
www.realgonerocks.com/2024/03/disorientation-survival-mode-ep/

"Il risultato è a tratti stupefacente nella sua originalità, e la coppia riesce costantemente a esaltarsi grazie a trovate teatrali e visionarie." 8/10 - Rock Hard Italia

"DISORIENTATION sind kompromisslos schräg und nicht auszurechnen (...) die Songs und deren Stimmungsaufbau fügen sich dann doch zu einem Ganzen zusammen, das motivierend genug ist, um die Repeat-Taste zu drücken – solange bis die Kopfschmerzen nicht mehr auszuhalten sind." - Vampster
vampster.com/cd-reviews/disorientation-survival-mode-ep-eigenproduktion/

"Au vrai, Disorientation ne ressemble à rien et c’est finalement très bien ainsi. (...) Il n’est pourtant pas interdit de déceler dans cet EP de prime abord peu engageant, non pas une forme de beauté (il ne faut pas exagérer) mais au moins une espèce d’éclat fascinant, une lueur obsédante qui n’est parfois pas sans rappeler le King Crimson le plus halluciné. A conseiller à ceux que n’effraie pas le metal (très) extrême le plus dissonant." 3/5 - Music Waves
www.musicwaves.fr/frmReview.aspx?ID=21390&REF=DESIORENTATION_Survival-Mode

"It is madness bottled into just wonderfulness. (...) I love how it goes between symphonic, hardcore, dark metal and just experimental noise at times, there’s a lot of orchestral arrangements and just bizarreness in this band, (...) This band is just advanced in ways that you’re either going to love it or hate it." - The Doorway to Zine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHzsxIF8ZIM

"Nina HAGEN qui traîne dans les couloirs, Haendel qui compose pour Frank ZAPPA et les MOTHERS, un voyage sans repères, mais qui fait un bien fou dans une époque standardisée à outrance et plus occupée à regarder en arrière qu’à innover vers l’avant. En trois morceaux seulement, le duo se fait une place confortable sur la scène canadienne contemporaine, défiant même les VOÏVOD en termes de liberté artistique." 85% - Metal News
www.metalnews.fr/chroniques/survival-mode

"Moving away from the raw quality of the recording of their self titled debut EP with “Survival Mode” while Disorientation claim to have created something more straightforward this time around, that’s not the impression that we get. The Avant-garde duo instead go deeper down the rabbit hole and continue their perpetual forward motion with a ferocious and spine chilling trio of cuts that once again disorientate and disturb." 8/10 - Metal Noise
metalnoise.net/2023/11/review-survival-mode-by-disorientation

"Montreal duo, Disorientation, aim to create a feeling of dizziness and nausea in the listener. If this fails, they can at least punish you with confusion. As an avant-garde metal act with a cor anglaise (English horn) and an oboe as their primary instruments, you can expect unorthodox interpretations of the metal orthodoxy. Survival Mode is their second release following 2021’s self-titled EP, and it’s the type of art that would have landed them an appointment with the hangman in sixteenth-century England as enemies of public decency. (...) Clearly, Igor Stravinsky is the main influence on this EP." 7/10 - Scream Blast Repeat
www.screamblastrepeat.com/disorientation-survival-mode-ep/

"With occasional expansions of the lead vocals into what I'd describe as a more classical inspired mode of singing too. It is an unusual mix of elements and an unusual use of these elements too, which makes me think that progressive metal is the best manner in which to define these landscapes. A production to seek out by those with a taste and affection for a more experimental and unusual variety of extreme progressive metal." - Progressor
progressor-net.blogspot.com/2023/12/disorientation-2023-survival-mode-mini.html