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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Paragon of Dissonance
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on 11 Nov 2011
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The Maniacal Vale
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on 16 Jun 2008
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Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on 11 Nov 2012
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The Pernicious Enigma
Rock - Released by Aesthetic Death on 14 Apr 1997
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Esoteric vs. Japan: Pterodactyl Takes Tokyo
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Esoteric on 25 Dec 2022
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Bars Of Death
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Babygrande Records on 13 Jul 2004
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A New Dope
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Babygrande Records on 23 May 2006
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Epistemological Despondency
Rock - Released by Aesthetic Death on 1 Oct 1994
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Moment Of Rarities
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Babygrande Records on 26 Jul 2005
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Descent (Single Version)
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on 9 Sep 2019
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Machete Mode
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Man Bites Dog Records on 25 Nov 2013
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Dogs
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by 5952049 Records DK on 19 Oct 2023
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Rotting in Dereliction (Single Version)
Metal - Released by Season of Mist on 4 Oct 2019
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