Austin Lunn’s most recent album as Panopticon, 2023’s The Rime of Memory (Bindrune), is in some ways his most traditional black-metal outing. The Louisville musician expanded the possibilities of the genre when he saturated his fifth record, 2012’s Kentucky, with Appalachian folk interpolations and explicit pro-labor ecological politics. While those elements are still present on […] The post Panopticon refines its dark pastoral vision of Appalachian black metal appeared first on Chicago Reader.