The Rime of Memory
by Panopticon
- Type: Album
- Released: 29 November 2023
- Label: Bindrune Recordings
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 4/5 from 15 ratings
Artists on this release: Patrick Urban, Jan Van Berlekom, Charlie Anderson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'The Rime of Memory', Panopticon delivers a work of immense scale, characterized by its seamless fusion of atmospheric black metal, Appalachian folk, and cinematic, orchestral arrangements. The album is defined by its massive, sprawling song structures that build from quiet, acoustic and string-led passages into intense, layered black metal, all while maintaining a clear and powerful production quality. Thematically, the album is a deeply introspective exploration of aging, mortality, and environmental collapse, conveying a poignant and melancholic emotional weight through both its musical compositions and Austin Lunn's impassioned performance.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, sprawling, harsh-vocals, blast-beats, nature
Tracklist
Credits
- A. Lunn - bass (4 strings, 12 strings), drums, guitars (electric, acoustic, lap steel, pedal steel, square neck resonator), keyboards, flute, whistles, samples, vocals, accordion, percussion, singing bowls, strings arrangements, illustrations, layout, recording, choir, choir arrangement
- Charlie Anderson - violin
- Patrick Urban - cello, vocals (choirs), choir, choir arrangement
- Echtra - vocals (track 2)
- Victor Sanchez - vocals (track 3), screamed vocals, additional lyrics
- N忙ss - narration (track 4)
- Jan van Berlekom - vocals (track 5), screamed & sung, choir, choir arrangement
- Johan Nilsson - piano (track 1), vocals (track 6)
- Nina Nilsson - hardanger fiddle (track 1), arrangements
- Andy Klokow - choir, choir arrangement
- William Seay - choir, choir arrangement
- Andrea Morgan - choir, choir arrangement
- Bekah Lunn - art direction, photography, choir, choir arrangement
- Spenser Morris - mixed by, mastered by, mixing, mastering