Esoteric
Hailing from the birthplace of heavy metal, Birmingham, England, Esoteric was founded in 1992 by Greg Chandler (vocals/guitar) and Gordon Bicknell (guitar/samples/keyboards), their intentions being to set their moniker to music by way of dark, drawn-out, tormented, but also cinematic extreme death/doom. And, after filling their ranks with a voluble group of henchmen, their ensuing double albums, 1994's Epistemological Despondency and 1997's The Pernicious Enigma did just that, giving new meaning to the genre by consisting of but six or seven protracted songs each. By comparison, 1999's single-disc Metamorphogenesis (incremented with spikes of feedback and modern acid rock) was looked upon as a mini-album, and preceded a long hiatus during which Chandler, Bicknell, and then current members Steve Peters (guitar), Trevor Lines (bass), and Keith York (drums) would convene only at distant intervals to work on a fourth album. The wait, ironically enough, only helped fuel Esoteric's growing cult following, and when it finally emerged through Season of Mist in 2004, the four-track Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum proved their most successful and -- if that's possible -- accessible effort yet.
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Discography
40 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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A Pyrrhic Existence
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on Nov 8, 2019
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Three Four
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by The A&R Department on Feb 24, 2017
Available in24-Bit/48 kHz Stereo -
The Maniacal Vale
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on Jun 16, 2008
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Esoteric vs. Japan: Pterodactyl Takes Tokyo
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Esoteric on Dec 25, 2022
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The Pernicious Enigma
Rock - Released by Aesthetic Death on Apr 14, 1997
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Bars Of Death
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Babygrande Records on Jul 13, 2004
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Paragon of Dissonance
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on Nov 11, 2011
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Epistemological Despondency
Rock - Released by Aesthetic Death on Oct 1, 1994
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on Nov 11, 2012
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Machete Mode
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Man Bites Dog Records on Nov 25, 2013
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Moment Of Rarities
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Babygrande Records on Jul 26, 2005
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A New Dope
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Babygrande Records on May 23, 2006
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Rotting in Dereliction (Single Version)
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on Oct 4, 2019
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Descent (Single Version)
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on Sep 9, 2019
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Down (Demo)
Rock - Released by Barra Hugh Donovan on Jul 8, 2022
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
Dogs
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by 5952049 Records DK on Oct 19, 2023
Available in16-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo -
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