Here it is Panopticon’s Masterpiece Collapse on double splattered vinyl in a nice gatefold. PREORDER HERE

This includes the track with Rob “the Baron” Miller of AMEBIX. A blackened version of the AMEBIX classic “Beginning of the End .” This track in 6 minutes and 40 seconds cements the increasingly apparent relationship between black metal and crust.

AUDIO SAMPLE FOUND HERE!

The 1983 original AMEBIX version “Beginning of the End” appeared on the Winter 7inch.

Panopticon’s “Collapse” is a great work. Panopticon demonstrates something unique to the time and place within which Panopticon exits. Collapse is an expression of contemporary anxiety in coming to grips with living in a treacherous America. Panopticon deals with real evil not Tolkien. I, Mr. Jonathan Flenser, am truly honored to unleash this record on THIS superior format.

As great lord of record stores, Aquarius records says: [Panopticon is] “an exciting new variant of the ever evolving sound of black metal, one we definitely never expected, but are digging big time. ”

Limited to 500 copies on Beer splatter vinyl!

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Palace of Worms get’s a freaking fantastic review on the blog The Left Hand Path. An Excerpt:

“Beyond these layers that build and then turn and then come back again, the song writing is excellent and the reason why you wanna stay at the party a little longer. While The Forgotten definitely goes for the proverbial throat for the majority of the album, it’s greeted throughout with sketches of cloudy melancholic melodies, shimmery clean passages and some mellow ambiance. The overall feel of The Forgotten is definitely that of black metal, but there’s a few outside influences that have creeped into the fold. Throughout I hear slight traces of heavy rock riffing and even hardcore (gasp!). The intro riff for the track, ‘Rite of Blood’, sounds like a breakdown that 90’s NYHC band, Burn, would have written had they had a more metallic touch in them. The album is not all about power-chords: Single-note hammer-ons and pull-offs are plentiful. For lack of a better description, think some finer moments of Craft.”

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You can now buy Palace of Worm’s “The Forgotten” CD direct from Flenser.



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Great lord of record stores Aquarius Records gave the following review to Palace of Worms new CD “The Forgotten”:

“For a while, San Francisco seemed like some sort of black metal mecca, record after record and shows galore, all sorts of grim and kvlt hordes, Leviathan, Draugar, Crebain, Horn Of Dagoth, Elk, Necrite and more. And while some of those bands are still active, the recordings have seemed to dry up, more a trickle than a torrent. We know there is a Crebain record in the works, there’s the forthcoming Mastery 2cd on tUMULt, a rumored Leviathan, but there are lots of new bands too, Botanist, Kerasphorus, and these guys, or rather this guy, Palace Of Worms, and finally a new slab of fucked up freaked out blackness from SF to obsess over, and believe us, this is well worth obsessing over.
Anyone into any of the above mentioned bands will dig PoW for sure, a dizzying blend of troo black metal buzz, and experimental post rock, which is evident from the first few seconds of the record, beginning with haunting majestic synths, then a brittle lo-fi blast of metal, that sounds like it was played on a mandolin, or pitched up, before the song proper kicks in with a wall of frenzied super saturated black buzz, croaked vokills, and buried in the mix blast beats, switching gears multiple times throughout the song, chugging doomic sprawl, to gnarled Deathspell style blackprog, with plenty of tangly guitar lines and lurching tempo changes, clean guitar, very reminiscent of another aQ BM fave Woe, the same sort of melodic sensibility fused into a seriously harrowing chunk of grim black aggression.
The rest of the record follow suit, dipping occasionally into ultra raw, old school black metal pound, weird almost industrial shoegazey ambience (sounding a bit like Nadja or Jesu), classic midtempo Burzumy blackness, awesomely creepy Eastern tinged black ambience, almost Katatonia moody sounding melodic blackness, but always returning to that furious heaviness, all lightning speed riffage, hellish vox, dizzying complex rhythms, soaring synths, but all infused with that strange, and subtle pop element that turns grim and black into something much more interesting, and makes Palace Of Worms another band to add to SF’s black pantheon.”

Flenser will bring you the Seidr full length CD in later 2010. Seidr is a doom project out of Louisville featuring, among others, Crow from Wheels Within Wheels and A. of Panopticon.

For fans of Asunder, Sunn, Jesu and Swans…

Soon:

Panopticon “Collapse” Double LP. We are very pleased to announce the vinyl version of Panopticon’s “Collapse” released on CD by Pagan Flames. This release will include deluxe packaging and very special bonus track featuring a VERY special guest which was not on the CD version…

Ghast “May the Curse Bind” Double LP. 2xLP version of the “May the Curse Bind” available soon. Originally released on CD by Todestrieb Records, the LP release will also include Ghast’s tracks from their 2007 split release with Helvette. Ghast is one of the heaviest black metal bands in the world.

Also coming soon:

Palace of Worms New full length follow up to 2007’s “The Decaying Despot.” Check out a preview here:

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