Urso X Obstacle’s description is spot on 🎯 Listening to this ambient revisiting of NONE’s first two songs is an elegiac experience. Favorite track: Withered.

Obstacle of Affliction like looking at pictures of a long dead relationship and holding back the tears but also trying to remember anything.

sashavonkarl74 A Scottish band I knew nothing about, and shame on me, totally, for missing that Live Burial's guitarist Richard Codling was the link, and I listened to Live Burial recently... LOL at @Urso 's comment :) I wasn't ready, but damn, this is one EOY list wrecker for sure!! Favorite track: Orbus Non Sufficit.

Maiden7 Spend the w/end with new Hellripper then BC recs this!!
Opening riff to Reignfall.....
Yes, fuck yes 🤘
Discography - Tory Punching Music you say.....
All. Fuckin. In.
Right, where's the merch.... 😎

positronicping Tremendous blackened thrash that pins you to the wall with its punk energy then opens you up with its deft atmospheric touches. Fair warning, this is a highly addictive listen. Favorite track: Seize the Stars.

grahamy Nursery aesthetics is a hilarious song title

Metallurgical Fire Pharmacist is as catchy as this music gets. Ingenious songwriting conducive to repeat listens. Favorite track: Necromorph.

chicoextremo Can't stop listening to this, great album from the BEST!! Favorite track: Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Grounds.

Eric Devin Excellent! Maybe a notch below Rime but still another outstanding example of Austin's work!

tomazp There are no missteps when it comes to Panopticon. The journey has wound as a life does: from rage to resolve, from despair to wonder. From Collapse through Kentucky, from Scars through Laurentian Blue, there has existed a promise of Panopticon fully integrating the disparate elements of Crust, Black, Folk, Doom, and Bluegrass, the themes of nature, political action and personal struggles. Here is Panopticon, perhaps finally fully realized in the new guise of a storyteller. Wonderful. Favorite track: Ghost Eyes in the Fire Light.

Harold N’Hiver I just turned 50. I have always cared about this world and I still do. But as I age it gets ever harder to give a fuck, especially as the world continues to spiral into greater depravity on a daily basis.

BUT - I have 3 children who will inherit what I leave behind, and every time a Panopticon release drops, and Austin writes, “Don’t let the fire burn out,” I am reminded that I am called upon to care more then ever, and to fight. This man’s records call me to that struggle

Thank you, Austin.