Panopticon (band)

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Panopticon
General information
Genre (s) Post metal , black metal , post rock , folk , bluegrass
founding 2007
Founding members
Austin L. Lunn

Panopticon is an American metal band .

history

The band was started in 2007 by Austin L. Lunn alias A. Lundr as a solo project. Guest musicians played regularly on the albums. The project is currently under contract with the Bindrune Recordings label .

style

music

The first releases were influenced by bands like Wolves in the Throne Room , Weakling and Skagos and combined the styles of black metal and post-rock . "Panopticon's music ... is a crazy swirl of different elements, assembled roughly into an album of undoubted power." Typical are melodic riffs and "wild" but precise drums. The basic mood of the Split 12 "with Vestiges was described as melancholy.

On the Kentucky LP , Lunn also used country- style acoustic guitars and clear vocals, so the album begins with an intro made of bluegrass , which first leads to fast black metal and later Alcest- like post-metal .

The band does not use digital effects devices in their productions, all tracks are recorded in analog format.

Texts

The band openly represents left-wing political views, which can also be seen in the lyrics. In the liner notes of Collapse there is the statement: "the basic premise behind Collapse is destruction and rebirth ... [it] documents a fictional uprising and revolution in the wake of economic strife, military occupation and totalitarianism"

The album Kentucky deals explicitly with the environmental impact of coal mining in the Midwest . This is how the Kentucky songs were called "Black Metal Protest Songs ":

"A small point, but symptomatic of something more fundamental. Panopticon's albums become ever-more explicitly political, to the extent that this record might be appropriately described as a set of black metal protest songs "

- Charles Umney : Academia.edu

Discography

Studio albums

  • 2008: Panopticon (CD; Pagan Flames Productions)
  • 2009: Collapse (CD / 2x LP ; Pagan Flames Productions) LP release via Flenser Records.
  • 2011: Social Disservices (CD / 2xLP; Flenser Records)
  • 2012: Kentucky (CD / 2xLP; Handmade Birds / Pagan Flames Productions)
  • 2014: Roads To The North (CD / 2xLP; Bindrune Recordings) LP release via Nordvis Produktion.
  • 2015: Autumn Eternal (CD / 2xLP / MP3; Bindrune Recordings) LP release via Nordvis Produktion.
  • 2018: The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Part I (CD / 2xLP; Nordvis production)
  • 2018: The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Part II (CD / 2xLP; Nordvis production)

EPs

  • 2019: The Crescendo of Dusk ( FLAC ; self-distribution)

Splits

  • 2009: Panopticon / Lake of Blood with Lake of Blood (CDR; Lundr Records)
  • 2009: It's Later Than You Think with Wheels Within Wheels (CDR; Lundr Records)
  • 2010: On The Subject Of Mortality Part 1 with When Bitter Spring Sleeps (CD; Pagan Flames Productions)
  • 2010: On The Subject Of Mortality II with Skagos (CD; Flenser Records)
  • 2011: II with Wheels Within Wheels (CD; Pagan Flames Productions)
  • 2013: Vestiges / Panopticon with Vestiges (LP; Flenser Records)
  • 2014: Brotherhood with Falls of Rauros ( 12 " ; Bindrune Recordings)
  • 2016: Traumschänder / Håkan's Song with Waldgeflüster (CD / LP; Nordvis Production, Bindrune Recordings)

Singles

  • 2008: La passione de Sacco & Vanzetti (MP3; self-distribution)
  • 2017: Sheep In Wolves' Clothing ( 7 " ; Decibel Flexi Series)

Compilations

  • 2010: On the Subject of Mortality (2 × 12 "/ LP; Flenser Records) LP release via Bindrune Recordings 2018.
  • 2016: Revisions Of The Past (2xCD / 2xLP; Bindrune Recordings) European distribution through Nordvis Produktion.
  • 2018: The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness I And II (2xCD / 4xLP; Bindrune Recordings) European distribution via Nordvis Produktion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Panopticon and Waldgeflüster join with Bindrune! ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bindrunerecordings.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bindrunerecordings.com
  2. ↑ a b Black Metal Protest Songs - Review of 'Kentucky' by Panopticon .
  3. ↑ CD review: Panopticon I Vestiges - Vestiges / Panopticon Split-Vinyl . ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. metalnews.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metalnews.de
  4. ^ Panopticon - Kentucky .
  5. ↑ Panopticon - Collapse (album review) . Sputnik Music