Tag Archives: Panopticon

20 albums to (hopefully) look forward to in 2017

Posted by on January 6, 2017

While many are digesting 2016 tunes, it is time to move forward and see what is ahead for 2017. 2016 gave us several diversified lists proving it was a great year for music. Does 2017 have what it takes to top that? We’re already hearing about big releases like Mastodon, Suicide Silence, Overkill, Kreator and more, but […]

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Decibel Metal and Beer festival launched, lineup and dates revealed

Posted by on November 7, 2016

Over the past few years, America has been going through an amazing boom of metal festivals throughout the country and we just can’t be happier about it. With the success and massive support these events have received lately, it’s logical that others would jump on board with the idea and the latest one to organize […]

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Panopticon announce first-show ever, will headline Migration Fest

Posted by on February 9, 2016

If you weren’t convinced about attending the newly announced Migration Fest in Olympia, WA this coming August, maybe the latest announcement will, as the festival revealed their headliner for the festival and happens to be Cascadian black metal band Panopticon. The festival released the news via No Clean Singing saying the following: “Today we here […]

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Pitchfork’s top 25 metal albums of 2015 unveiled

Posted by on December 21, 2015

By now, you could probably make a top ten list of the Top 10 lists out there. Hopefully, you’er not too fatigued by it, because Pitchfork has come out with their list of the top 25 albums of 2015. If you’re thinking what Pitchfork’s readership and sensibility is, you’ve probably already figured out that their […]

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Metal Insider contributor Matt Brown’s Top 10 of 2015

Posted by on December 18, 2015

As 2015 draws to a close, we’re letting Metal Insider’s staff pick their favorite albums of 2015, in addition to some of the musicians that helped make some of it. You can see all of our picks so far here. Here we have Metal Insider’s Matt Brown contributing his picks. So much metal, so little time […]

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Top 10s of the year from Anthrax, Broken Hope, SpiralArms, Rivers of Nihil

Posted by on December 4, 2013

It’s December, which means it’s time for that annual rite of passage where everyone attempts to summarize a year’s worth of music into a top ten list. Metal Insider and its contributors will be releasing our lists starting soon, but we’ve also gotten lists from some of the artists themselves. Here’s the first installment, featuring […]

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Rivers Of Nihil guitarist Jon Kunz’s Top 5: Black Metal Releases

Posted by on October 7, 2013

Rivers Of Nihil is arguably one of Metal Blade’s finest recent death metal signings. While the Reading, PA five piece’s first full-length offering The Conscious Seed Of Light (out on October 15) captures the brutality of classic death metal, it also blends in the heaviest elements of black metal. So it’s no given that guitarist […]

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