Epistemological Despondency

Epistemological Despondency
Epistemological Despondency
Studio album by Esoteric
Released	October 1994
Recorded	6–16 June 1994
Studio	Rich Bitch Studios, Birmingham
Genre	Funeral doom metal
Length	89:00
Label	Aesthetic Death
Producer	Esoteric
Esoteric chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Sputnikmusic	^[1]

Epistomological Despondency is the first studio album by British doom metal band Esoteric. The album was released in 1994 as a double CD through Aesthetic Death Records, and was remastered and reissued in 2004. In a retrospective article written about the album by Metal Injection editor Cody Davis, the album "built Esoteric's foundation in funeral doom."^[2]

Track listing[]

Disc one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bereft"	20:24
2.	"Only Hate (Baresark)"	2:41
3.	"The Noise of Depression"	18:59
Total length:		42:04

Disc two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lamented Despondency"	12:37
2.	"Eradification (of Thorns)"	7:19
3.	"Awaiting My Death"	26:07
Total length:		46:03 Total 89:00

Credits[]

Bryan Beck – Bass guitar, fretless bass, effects and bass synth
Gordon Bicknell – Lead guitar, effects, samples, synth
Greg Chandler – vocals, effects
Simon Phillips – Lead guitar, effects, samples
Stuart Blekinsop – Guitar, effects
Darren Earl – drums
Steve Wilson - engineering, mixing

References[]

^ n/a (2009-05-13). "Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency". sputnikmusic.com. Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ Davis, Cody (2017-02-17). "Funeral Doom Friday: ESOTERIC and Their Brilliant Debut, Epistemological Despondency". metalinjection.net. Metal Injection. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

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[sputnik-1] /a (2009-05-13). "Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency". sputnikmusic.com. Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[MI-2] Davis, Cody (2017-02-17). "Funeral Doom Friday: ESOTERIC and Their Brilliant Debut, Epistemological Despondency". metalinjection.net. Metal Injection. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

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Greg Chandler Mark Bodossian Joe Fletcher Kris Clayton Simon Walcroft
Studio albums	Esoteric Emotions – The Death of Ignorance (1993) Epistemological Despondency (1994) The Pernicious Enigma (1997) Metamorphogenesis (1999) Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum (2004) The Maniacal Vale (2008) Paragon of Dissonance (2011) A Pyrrhic Existence (2019)