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 of slogging hard work practicing as much as possible and they went to the recording studio to do the 10 tracks of "Proud to Fail", which was reviewed very nicely on Punktastic ("this is a great, fast, melodic punk record" etc.) and can be bought from the band's website.

They've now played loads of gigs in the midlands and have just released their new EP "Fake", available from their website and from any of their gigs, it received wicked reviews from Disconnected Press ("This is really really good melodic hardcore") and from No Front Teeth Zine ("this is a solid EP with a sound thats consistently very popular [and]... an attacking political edge")..