Scott
Incredible from start to finish, a feat among feats for double albums. Impossible to pick a favorite track!
Favorite track: A Ridge Where the Tall Pines Once Stood.
Sonny92
Austin Lunn is possibly the premier exponent of atmospheric black metal currently and this release is a real event in the scene. CD1 is Panopticon's usual superb take on the genre.
Daniel Wiklander
The Americana part of this album is up there with Neil Young and with Springsteen at his darkest. The songs go straight to my heart.
Favorite track: Beast Rider.
Nicholas Currie
This double album hits the exact perfect points of everything I love about music. Part 1 is hard and heavy with a beautiful undertone. Part 2 is perfection wrapped up in sorrow and intricacy. Thank you for creating this absolute masterpiece.
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CD housed in a gatefold vinyl replica with printed innersleeves and a 12 page booklet.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2
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Part 2, Vinyl Replica CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD housed in a gatefold vinyl replica with printed innersleeves and a 12 page booklet.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
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Part 1, Double Coloured Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
LP details:
- Double coloured vinyl, green mixed with blue
- Gatefold jacket, reverse board print
- Printed innersleeves, reverse board print
Includes unlimited streaming of The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
“The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness” is a two part album that musically explores the two separate musical sides of Panopticon. Part 1 harkens back to melodic Black and Death Metal influences and part 2 focuses entirely on Americana, Folk and Country music from North America.
The lyrical concept of the album deals with two sides of the same coin: the effects of our natural environment on quality of life and mental health and the effects of urban life and industry on our quality of life and mental health. The album is largely inspired by some of Sigurd Olson’s writing and also inspired by the struggle to preserve Minnesota’s northwoods.
Part 1 of the 2 part album is entirely focused on exploring melodic, aggressive and atmospheric metal with lyrics about time spent in nature, questions and fears about the consequences of environmental destruction and seeking inspiration in the woods.
Part 2 takes a more somber, lonesome tone, lyrically focusing on the consequences of urban life, industry, global warming and environmental detriment. Part 2 is absolutely NOT a metal record and those who are disinterested in folk, americana and country music might not favor it.
The album is particularly long…clocking in at about 2 hours. It is intended to be heard as a body of work, but as always that's up to the listener to decide.
*** A. Lunn about the album ***
This is the full two disk, 2 hour long album sequenced as one long record, as it was meant to be heard. Please don't listen to the album on your laptop speakers, it will sound like shit. Give it a shot on a long hike or by a fire with headphones. The first half of the album is atmospheric metal, the second half is more americana focused, so beware if you hate country/folk.
cheers
-A
Blåtimen is in honor and dedication of Valfar's WINDIR
The Wandering Ghost is for Adam Nicholson and in memory of Guy Clark.
This album takes inspiration from the words of Sigurd Olson and the North woods he so cherished.
This album is in loving memory of Cliff and Ele Hokanson.
NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON WAS ASKED TO REVIEW THIS ALBUM.
credits
releases April 6, 2018
A.Lunn: guitars ( acoustic, electric, baritone acoustic, resonator, square neck resonator) Bass ( acoustic, 4 and 8 string electric) 5 string banjo, lap steel, drums and percussion, keys, mandolin, harmonica, sung and screamed voice, choirs, accordion and orchestra bells and software instruments.
with guests:
Johan Becker: violins
A. Petterson: Lead vocals on " En Generell Avsky"
William Seay: guest vocals on " The Singing Wilderness" and additional choir vocals on " A Ridge Where The Tall Pines Once Stood"
Joe Beres: Reading of a passage of a Sigurd Olson Lecture on " A Ridge where the Tall Pines Once Stood"
Tanner Anderson: Hurdygurdy and hammered dulcimer
Ben Smith : Backing vocals on " Snow Burdened Branches"
Recorded by A.Lunn at lundr lodge in the woods of central east minnesota 2015-2017.
All songs and lyrics written by A. Lunn between 2011 and 2017.
Additional engineering by Spenser morris
Mixed and Edited by Spenser Morris
mastered by Colin Marston
Photography by Bekah Lunn
Drawings by Hanna Larsson for Sólfjall design and Nate Burns for revolting worship
supported by 73 fans who also own “The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2”
Panopticon is my favorite “band” and also my favorite musical entity of any kind. No matter what I get into, I always return to this music. Metallurgical Fire
supported by 68 fans who also own “The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2”
Canadian atmospheric dark neofolk duo evoke brooding forests, crystalline waters, and stark mountain landscapes. The music is paganistic and Nordic in feel, with tinges of dark metal. Acoustic guitars, soft percussion and mostly wordless vocals comprise this phantasmagoric release. Nickie Harte Kelly
supported by 63 fans who also own “The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2”
Bucolic and majestic. Dark and sorrowful. A particularly south German take on wilderness worship. As autumn becomes winter, these ruins are slowly revealed, like the happy cloak shrouding inner turmoil falling away. And still you grind on. You grind on. Luke
supported by 62 fans who also own “The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Pt. I & 2”
Music that has nothing to prove which has not already proved and nothing to expect when there is nothing to be expected and that is so liberating :) nakilep