As created by Austin Lunn, Panopticon moves from savage but melodic black metal to stark, Appalachian folk. The rarely touring Kentuckian makes his local debut this ...

This week Austin Lunn, mountain-man mastermind of black-metal project Panopticon, completes a trilogy of albums he began three years ago, releasing Autumn Eternal via Bindrune Recordings. The 2012 ...

In the space of fifteen years, multi-instrumentalist Austin Lunn’s solo project Panopticon has become one of the most revered and unique names in American black metal, and has arguably incorporated ...

Panopticon have been rolling out new album The Rime Of Memory since summer, sharing songs both epic in scope and concise in their small-scale beauty. Today Austin Lunn has shared the album’s closing ...

North American black metal is out here having a fucking moment, man. Acts like Blackbraid and Wayfarer are doing some seriously interesting things in the subgenre that could really only exist on this ...

Panopticon, Austin Lunn’s one-man metal band, has released a new EP to benefit musicians struggling during the pandemic. The Beast Rider EP contains heavy new electric versions of two of Panopticon’s ...

Hold onto your butts, ladies and gentlemen. One of the more interesting and exciting acts in modern black metal is about to hit the scene with a one-two punch, as Panopticon announced that we’ll all ...

Since 2007, Austin Lunn’s much-praised atmospheric black metal project Panopticon has plied its trade in searing meditations on everything from environmentalism, to the Appalachian coal mining ...

Minnesota-based musician Austin Lunn splits his love of black metal and Appalachian folk into two distinct halves on this double LP. Save this story Save this story When Austin Lunn seeks musical ...

Panopticon is the Minnesota-via-Kentucky solo project of Austin Lunn. On his new album Autumn Eternal, he borrows from genres like atmospheric black metal, prog rock, post rock, and bluegrass while ...

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