Despondent | ar

There are several bands using this name: 1) Despondent are a speedy fast skate punk band from Leicester with all spikey guitar riffs and snotty vocals with 100mph drums thrown in for good measure. Despondent spawned in August 2004 when Reuben Vaughan (guitar/vox, ex-Third Hardest) and Luke Richards (bass/bvox, ex-Third Hardest) had some songs they'd written with some hard-hitting political and sociological lyrics, they just needed a drummer to bring the songs to life. Enter Nik Coley (drums/bvox, ex-Charybdis, Skoona & Mr. Tickle), and after a few practices the sound was complete. A couple of gigs and about a month...

Despondent Chants was formed in mid 2002 by Carlos and Miguel Medina , initially as a personal project because at that time both were part of Slowdeath (Heavy Thrash), driven by the desire to develop a sound that is identified more with their influences and musical tastes, led to the composition of several songs sound heavily influenced by the Doom Metal. For a short period songs were rehearsed, but due to unavailability of other instruments required on issues which prevented a more steady progress was necessary to include support from some musician friends: Miguel Vergara , (ex Slow Death )...