[trains are bad]

I've had the CD for a long time, but it's been far along in the chain of 'albums to digest later'.

So I've been listening to it daily for about a week now and think it's pretty dang solid. Enough melody and structure to carry itself through the album leaving with a pretty solid feeling. Yet not tiring or difficult to listen to whatsoever like some 'technical' metal/music is. If my attention lapses, it doesn't become annoying like some music does when it gets backgrounded. Rather soothing actually.

That's usually the feeling I get with metal nowadays, or heck just music sometimes. Like some CDs I just can't bring myself to pony up the attention span for, even though I know they are good...like Riverside: Second life Syndrome...after a few minutes I know I'm just not paying enough attention to do the album justice, so I can't listen to it right now at this point in my life. But this just hits the spot.

 

[monolith]

A pretty excellent album, though not their best. You should check out the post-metal thread that sprung up a little while ago.

 

[RationalGaze]

I think the album has an awesome sound production, the guitars have a real edge to them.
I think this is one of the better produced post-metal albums out there.

 

[festivus528]

I think this is their best album, personally. Turner's vocals on Oceanic are a little too intense for me, and this album has a good balance. ITAOT has it's moments, but isn't as good as Panopticon.
I agree with the production. This album sounds great. Not as good as ITAOT, but still great.

 

[Shambla]

Yeah it's an awesome album - great music and well produced too. Like festivus I personally prefer it to Oceanic, tho I haven't got around to getting a copy of ITAOT.

 

[trains are bad]

WHAT IS "ITAOT"?

That's like the tenth time today that people have used acronyms that could not possibly be understood. It makes me feel old and depressed.

 

[festivus528]

Sorry, that's "In The Absence of Truth." It is their fourth full-length album released in 2006.

Looking at the year their albums have been released, if they follow their 2-year cycle, that would put their new album out sometime this year. I hope so.

 

[RationalGaze]

Its kinda weird, but the guitars on ITAOT seem to lack the edge or shizzle that Panopticon possesses. ITAOT seems to sound much darker. So even though the production seems to be much more clear with ITAOT, I prefer the sound of Panopticon.
ITOAT has some really awesome tracks, but also some not too good ones.