Closer to Death is the second EP by Masquerader. A tight three-song blitz of live set highlights; from the span of their career so far. Masquerader at their chaotic and eclectic core.

Credits
Released February 25, 2025

Written, performed and produced by Tim Williamson, Chris Fry and Danny Molyneux; drummer, bassist and vocalist/button-pusher.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jack Twiner at Pyramid Studios.
Additional mastering by Umair Chaudhry of Yin&Yang Audio.

Worse than the Wolf

Vertical Video

white strands (ying)

Locked At Home

“System Alert” is a dark, disturbing, angry, in-your-face punk anthem.  A foreboding primal scream pleading for a societal awakening from a mind crippling civics coma. 

#002: System Alert

you don't have to cry that loud t make yourself known

STICKS AND STONES

Give Me Time (Cause I'm Suffocating Here)

No Luck

i already did this but i wanted to revamp it since i have more mixing knowledge and shenanigans....

BRAINSOUP! (cover)

SINGLE 4! :D
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Lyrics:
We’re down the road now
So where’s your code now
Would you have kept it if you knew what you know now
Oh, on the low down
I’m feeling closed out
Yeah I knew you once a long time ago now

See now and then
I think back and wow
My way back when
Kinda hurts right now

Oh, Memories
Chemical signal burdens
Keeping my brain from working
Killing my serotonin, yeah
Oh, Memories 
Can’t count the ways I curse you
Wish that I could unlearn you
Hope that they find a cure soon

A disconnection from recollection
I’m vacationing from my transgressions
In a subversion of expectation 
I’m stepping out and seeking redemption 

I could move some place
I could change my name
But I won’t let things go that way again

Oh, Memories
Chemical signal burdens
Keeping my brain from working
Killing my serotonin, yeah
Oh, Memories 
Can’t count the ways I curse you
Wish that I could unlearn you
Hope that they find a cure soon

In all of the times that I could’ve broke 
I hinged on something
If I don’t take stock and if I don’t grow
Then it’s been for nothing
I’ll take my baggage down the road
And I’ll be what I’m stuck with 
Yeah, there’s a lot I gotta take

Little moments, still haunting
‘cuz don’t get the point of it
When you don’t get what you wanted 
Or you need something and lost it
 
Yeah I miss you
Yeah you don’t care
It’s a hard truth to take but I’m going there
You went some place
You went somewhere 
But the mark you left remains

Oh, Memories
Chemical signal burdens
Keeping my brain from working
Killing my serotonin, yeah
Oh, Memories 
Can’t count the ways I curse you
Wish that I could unlearn you
Hope that they find a cure soon

And always
Something burnin’ out, out, out, out
And someday
We may figure out why or how

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Memories

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I think I see a pussycat,,,,,,,,I do, I do see a pussycat.

i think that Kendrick Lamar is the only good mumble rapper cuz in his song Not Like Us he calls out Drake for being a Diddyblud

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I won't reply to messages that sound completely fake or AI-generated, and I literally am not buying services.  

I am an unknown and independent artist that is simply looking to get my music heard, I am not in the market to purchase services!

My music changed your life did it, when you haven't even liked or listened to my music?  Amazing!  My lyrics resonated with you did they, on a track that has no vocals - awesome! You are asking permission to join my fanbase?  That makes literally no sense, and so no, you cannot!!!

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We're all masqueraders || Math punk three piece noisy bois || Reading, UK

Get at us on i.am.masquerader@gmail.com

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Based out of Reading, UK - Masquerader is a math-punk band born of the gentrifier nightmare / cultural wasteland of the London commuter belt, filtering the rhythmic dissent of math rock through the ferocious intensity of post-hardcore. 

Making an early choice to skip lead guitars, we embrace a sparse and stripped-back dynamic as a three-piece. Filling the sonic void with angular electronics and forefronting incisive bass guitar, complex drumwork and breakneck vocal delivery - finding inspiration in acts like Show Me the Body, Death Grips, Rolo Tomassi, Glassjaw, Deftones, Mclusky and Helmet. 

DIY to the core, Masquerader has been in a constant grind, carving out a scene in our Reading hometown under 'Nothing Will Change Events' whilst spreading a unique noise pollution across SE England. That gathering momentum has led to shared stages with CLT DRP, Death Goals, Bob Vylan, Poly-Math and The Byker Grove Fan Club, plus an early place on Small Pond Records' Emerging Artists project, which has featured break-outs such as Lambrini Girls and El Moono.

Our EP NOTHING WILL CHANGE is the first full Masquerader release. A self-produced document of our early days, harnessing the energy of sweaty gigs in gloomy rooms into an assault of cynical introspection and social criticism. Out Now.

New tracks tagged #Alternative Punk