Winter hasn’t officially arrived yet, but at least where I live, it’s really fucking cold out there this morning. That means it’s perfect Panopticon weather. Panopticon, Austin Lunn’s cult-beloved one-man band, specializes in a form of grand-scale black metal that’s inspired by the icy, intimidating beauty of Lunn’s rural Minnesota landscape. Today, the new Panopticon album is here, and it sounds colossal.
It’s really good. Very fitting that there’s a hard frost and freezing mist this morning as I’m listening to it.