One of the most unique aspects of this album is the handful of songs that feature the drum machine. The sound is not far from the electronic shuffle of an early Kraftwerk experiment, or perhaps a jazzier take on the pulses of the first Harmonia record.
These songs, along with the enchanting electro-tease of the opening track, make this album some kind of proto-techo discovery. The rest of the album is a steady stream of overlaping ideas and brilliant composition.
It evokes everything from French lullaby, childhood dreams, futurist fantasy, Middle Eastern folk musics, surrealist Jazz, Eric Satie, Olivier Messiaen, Duke Ellington, angular fusion, Indian Classical, European folk musics, a touch of island madness and has the thin arms of European prog rock just barely holding the whole thing together.
It really is impossible to describe this album accurately and I'm sure it will sound completely different to each set of ears that hear it. Unlike the weepy and soft bands that are dubbed "funeral doom" nowadays Evoken, Mournful Congregation, Pantheist, etc. Esoteric deliver the goods with heavy, sluggish, bizarre and interesting music without using samples of rain falling with mournful piano breaks and operatic female vocals.
Anyhow, what we get with this album is low heavy chords ringing out at super sluggish paces. Since the band uses three guitar players at once, typically there will be at least one lead going on. These alternate between strange sounds with effects put on them to slow and eerie melodies over the plodding rhythms. The vocals are very unique and add a lot to the atmosphere of the music. Singer Greg Chandler has a lot of range and alternates between low death metal grunts and super high screams ringing out with effects over them often meshing in with guitar effects and synthesizer sounds to create a strange cacophony.
The drums are well played and follow the usually very slow rhythm. Rather than just bashing one gruesomely slow beat for the whole album they do vary with different fills and patterns. The bass is largely hidden behind the distortion of three guitars, but in the very heavy low end parts it certainly adds to that sub-end filth.
Also it should be mentioned that the album isn't completely snail-paced. For instance, following the minute opener "Bereft" we get a roughly 2 minute quick death metal song "Only Hate Baresark " just about every Esoteric release briefly splinters into a speedy aggressive song. Every aspect of the music seems meticulously orchestrated, and it flows with the precision of classical music, albeit much darker and filthier.
With three guitars, bass, drums, strange synth effects and highly variable vocals, each aspect of the music is arranged just perfectly this quality is seen throughout Esoteric's entire discography. The album is very captivating and powerful, and not an endeavor to be taken lightly clocking in at around 88 minutes, it will at the very least consume a lot of your time. The sound production is also noteworthy. The sound is extremely dull, low end, warm and crushing as with their demo tape and their follow-up "The Pernicious Enigma".
This sound can be largely attributed to the use of analog equipment, and while more recent Esoteric releases are still great, they don't match that perfect nostalgic tone. I would dare to say "Epistemological Despondency" is their overall best album, but every time I listen to the follow-up "The Pernicious Enigma" I change my mind. The early sound of Esoteric is unparalleled and in most conceivable ways perfect.
While taking on the sound of the "second wave" of doom metal they also endeavored to push it in new directions and create some of the most excellently strange and heavy music to date. Tchornobog by Tchornobog. What more can you say after reading the abhorrent bio of this album that tells the vision behind it? This is the black vomit of Tchornobog: abyssal violation of your senses and pineal gland and you are not the same person after encountering this multidimensional god.
Master Boot Record's latest collection of industrial techno tracks flirts with chiptune and black metal, and offers some secret surprises.
Master Boot Record fires up a monstrously-efficient assembly line, powered by industrial, synth-wave, and hardcore techno. Hollow of the Void by Petrification. Bandcamp Album of the Day Apr 23, At least as good as Eroded Corridors Nick Judkins. Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp. No matching results. Explore music. Get fresh music recommendations delivered to your inbox every Friday. Epistemological Despondency by Esoteric. Swigen One of those recordings that perfectly depicts what's often going on in my head, and that I lack the energy to express myself.
If not for gems like this, I most certainly would not exist. To the person who said it sounded like "Tourette's Guy": yeah, nah, mate. That's what it sounds like when you are far beyond the point of frustration with the tedium of life of Earth. When you just want to go, yet continue to wake up here- despite efforts to not do so. They fucken nailed it. Excellent work. Favorite track: The Noise of Depression. Nebula Starmaker. Antipodean Zombie.
Len van der Wolf. Daniel Zidar. Matjaz Rojc. Ellery Beard. Gospel of Death fan account. Rein R. Silchas Ruin. Andreas Gram. Alex Wittmann. Jason Wagner. Corey Stevens. Purchasable with gift card. Bereft Bereft promises made unto me, I always remember watching them fade. Upon winds of blackened torment, The promises' I couldn't see.
For they are just words, And your words are empty. Bolape como belioreta pamebeta. Zodocare od Zodameranu! Odo cicale Qaa. Zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe Saitan! Confusion and lies engulf me, The bastard humans disgust me. I scream alone in the mountains, venting my hate, Calling forth emptiness to surround me.
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