title: Epistemological Despondency
text: # Epistemological Despondency
  
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  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."
  
  ## 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
  