Panopticon

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t first glance it might appear that Panopticon is just another one-man black metal project, notable perhaps as the band/person is from Kentucky. But peel back the layers a bit and one finds atmospheric black metal is the core. Austin Lunn (the man doing it all here) also incorporates banjos, flutes, and even touches of bluegrass into the proceedings, thus imbuing songs with a unique take on folk metal.

As the one-man act, Panopticon would release multiple splits and EPs, but the short list of albums would include Panopticon (2008), Collapse (2009), ... on the Subject of Mortality (2010), Social Disservices (2011), Kentucky (2012), Roads to the North (2014), Autumn Eternal (2015), The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (1 and 2) (2018), .​.​. ​and Again into the Light (2021), The Rime of Memory (2023) and Laurentian Blue (2025).