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helikopteri13
am i the only one that has a problem with the start of the new album? you have a splendid 2 minute intro track and what does that build into? 8 minutes of more acoustic dabbling at the start of "winter's ghost" and after that it is gone basically for the rest of the album. imo that section should have been spread around the first track/whole album and not leave you thinking is it going to be all acoustic on the first listen. besides that, yeah it is panopticon of course it is fucking great.
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philippxvx
Yeah... It's my favourite record of the year by a mile, but even I must admit those opening few minutes to Winter's Ghost should have cut short.
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Quorthon911
I think "The rime of memory" was the best album released in 2023. I couldn't get enough of listening.
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semenamertvykh_
I don't think Austin publishes the lyrics anymore, or at least he hasn't done in a while.
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Void_Troll
if i use Leviathan to seethe in my misanthropy and crippling depression i use Panopticon to shed those and feel alive again - such inspirational music.
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SiMonvmentvm
The heavy half of ‘The Embers at Dawn’ is harrowingly beautiful in a manner that is very uncommon in black metal.
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Sorgsen_Skuggan
Mostly as the project evolved over time alongside V*rg, it was simply more and more his mean to channel his beliefs and biases just as you might find strands of its creators in anything else. You have from fixations with Tolkien, then to the Norwegian scene's obsession with death then a more and more pronounced expression of romantic / idealised past due to his own identitarianism and nationalism (see from Dauði Baldrs to Thulêan Mysteries and songs like Et Hvitt Lys Over Skogen). That's how.
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BrainExploded
Судя по кускам лирики, которую я выхватываю - это какой-то социалистический комми блэк штоле?)
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TheWatcher777
Not only does he make great black metal but his bluegrass stuff is good too. Such a talented artist.
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ZakiOwais
Don't wanna be that guy but the mixing or "whatever makes this sound so muddy" could've been better. His albums have a shoegaze-like warm feel to them. But sometimes I want something aggressive. You might say complaining about aggression in black metal is dumb cuz there's always a more aggressive band. True but how many incorporate American folk music?
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ClassyMusicSnob
Post means it takes element of a genre and turns it into something else completely. This is still black metal, just with bluegrass and melodeath elements. No one knows what the post sub genres are anymore.
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versionJBT
For those who missed it, he did a long but really good interview a couple years ago: https://machinemusic.net/2019/06/26/machine-musics-albums-of-the-decade-an-interview-with-panopticon/ And for anyone worrying, no, it's not very political at all. The vast majority of the conversation is just about his favorite music and how his personal life & mental health are reflected in his lyrics. Posting this here so that some people will hopefully realize that Panopticon is more than "just a political band". Albums like "…and Again Into the Light" or "Roads to the North" actually aren't politically themed at all, as Austin says himself.
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theartificer
This guy is cool https://www.last.fm/music/Panopticon/+images/5d376390f3fc4a73ca8d6841542fb176
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iseesadpeople
Screw your politics, screw his politics, screw gatekeepers, and Last.fm edgelords who listens to trvest kvlt black metal alongside bladee, K-pop, and anime OPs. This dude makes great music; one of the best atmospheric bm projects ever. That's it.
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lucasthales
☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ BLACK☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ METAL ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ Antcristo ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ Antnazi ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ Antiburgues ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭ Trabalhadores não ha fronteiras. ☭ ☭ ☭ .☭ ☭ ☭
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roadkillfacepnt
slept on this for way too long, man. really gonna have to sit down and give a good full listen to their discography sometime; every time i hear a song from them i'm enthralled.
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Omegasphere
From what little I've heard, I like their Americana folk songs, I like their black metal songs, but do they have any songs that actually blend the two? I feel they could create an "Americana Opeth" sound, but the styles seem to be mutually-exclusive on a track-by-track basis. I want to like them, but there are so many Americana and black metal bands to where these guys are no different unless they TRULY blend the genres. Please give me some songs to prove me wrong.
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BrainExploded
tankies ARE communists. It sounds like if nazis would say "hitler was not a true national socialist!" Both most ugly regimes are COLLECTIVIST - nazis AND communists.
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BrainExploded
To be able to sway the crowds you need to have a leader and socialism. Though, mild elements of socialism in modern economy are almost necessary, like in liberal democracy (which I stand for) of social-democracy like in Northern Europe, it's quite pricey and demands strong democracy and high levels of progress. Going too further left from there is extremely detrimental and inevitably leads to authoritarianism. Marxism is highly ideological, dangerous religion, it blinds and leads nowhere. As "nowhere" reached it flips into dictatorship. Remember, fascism is socialism that got frustrated over its ineffectiveness. It's like "would-be-good" character turns evil due to trauma.
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ClassyMusicSnob
Actually i thought tankies were a specific form of communists, not all. Something along the lines of Trotskyism vs leninism; infighting so to speak. Thanks for the clarification
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ClassyMusicSnob
Finally gave Kentucky a listen and it is an absolute gem of an album that is a tribute and a memorial for all of the coal miners lost. However acting like capitalism is the problem (it won’t be the best system created but it’s the best so far) and it isn’t just human fucking nature that causes unneeded strife is so pathetically naive. Socialism never fixed these things, it only exacerbate the problem and I’m fact socialist like policies over decades has only made the problems worse because after thousands of years of different political systems, humanity has been the constant and instead of evolving we have just done the same thing over and over again. Dude makes some amazing music, but his politics are just helplessly naive. I’d love to see a day where humanity finally grows though. Politics will never set us free, but doing what we can to better ourselves will, especially in a system that allows for free will more than any other in history and allows choice of income and how to live
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hel-leen
choice of income and lifestyle is, logically at least, more of the result of modernity, a historical process associated with but definitely different from capitalism. as for free will, philosophical implications aside, isn't the album actually dealing with the lack thereof? unless you mean being in such a disadvantaged position and unable to reject unfair deals or improve labour conditions are also "freely willed". and if you think systematic inequality of bargaining power isn't a problem linked to capitalism, you'd better learn more about monopolies.
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hel-leen
I mean it may seem a pedantic distinction but actually authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and other repressive ideologies do not even fall into the category where economical systems like capitalism belong to, why should they be brought up together all the time? well yeah, I get ur point about freedom of expression and individual liberty. or rather, I doubt there are many people out here who understand how valuable these freedoms are if they haven't spent a good part of their lives witnessing political prosecution and struggling with the fear of losing everything like I did. and precisely because of this, it's particularly painful to see people involve themselves in a wrong war with wrong enemies while being unable to recognise the real reasons behind the problem or come up with a more coherent point.
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ClassyMusicSnob
Theres a few good bands in both, thoufh youre right. NSBM: Grand Belials Key, Graveland, Nokturnal Mortum (only cuz morons think they are), Hate Forest, Satanic Warmaster, Absurd, Kroda, Aryan Blood and... Thats it. RABM: Panopticon, Falls of Rauros, and theres like 2 or 3 others but i forget their fuckin names.
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