Intentional bathos appears in satirical genres such as burlesque and mock epic. Self-referential humor expressed discreetly and surrealistically is a form of bathos. "Call me Ishmael", or perhaps a contemporary bathos. Bathos is a literary term and device. The dispute flared up again, to end on a note of bathos. "Bathos" was released through Firedoom Music, a sub-label of Firebox Records, on November 8, 2004.