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There are at least two bands called Simulacra:

1.) A Progressive Heavy Metal band with amplified and distorted clarinets, drums, and vocals (no guitars).

Taken from CD Baby:
“Simulacra is Aaron Novik’s newest and most adventurous project to date. Building on a long career of pushing boundaries within highly varied musical styles, the metal band gets a reconfiguration and evolves into a new and intense sound form.

“Inspired by the heavy chamber group, Edmund Welles, the world’s only composing ensemble for bass clarinet quartet, Aaron enlisted Edmund Welles leader Cornelius Boots, to start a more “traditional” rock format, with Cornelius playing the role of the bass player on an amplified bass clarinet and Aaron playing the role of the guitarist on an amplified and distorted B flat clarinet. It may sound to you like there are guitars and basses and keyboards on this record, but these sounds were all created by using clarinets played through guitar and bass effects and amplifiers. The group is rounded out with Matthias Bossi, the drummer from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Book of Knots, and singer Jesse Quattro from Secret Chiefs 3 and Hammers of Misfortune.

“The musical innovation doesn’t stop with the groups unique instrumentation. Traditional song forms and harmonies are also turned on their heads, replacing verse/chorus cliches with unexpected musical shifts. The use of voice is different as well, placing more of an emphasis on the voice as an instrument than as a lyricist.
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