The Pernicious Enigma

by Esoteric

The Pernicious Enigma cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 April 1997
  • Label: Aesthetic Death
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:54:51
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Greg Chandler

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Pernicious Enigma' is an overwhelmingly dense, double-disc monument of funeral doom metal. Esoteric weaves terrifying, avant-garde atmospheres and surreal psychedelic rock textures to create an incredibly slow, misanthropic, and deeply disturbing auditory nightmare.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, scary, avant-garde, funereal, monolithic

Tracklist

  1. Creation (Through Destruction) (13:14)
  2. Dominion of Slaves (16:01)
  3. Allegiance (11:50)
  4. NOXBX9701040 (12:49)
  5. Sinistrous (12:41)
  6. At War with the Race (2:52)
  7. A Worthless Dream (13:09)
  8. Stygian Narcosis (13:17)
  9. Passing Through Matter (18:54)

Credits

  • Esoteric - primary artist, engineer [engineered by], instruments [all instrumentation performed by], mixed by, producer
  • Steve Wilson - engineer [engineered by]
  • Tom Kv氓lsvoll - mastered by
  • Anthony - drums [session]
  • Greg Chandler - lyrics by, music by
  • Steve Peters - music by
  • Bryan Beck - lyrics by, music by
  • Simon Philips - music by

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