The Splintered Oar

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  2026 Albums

  Pete Brown

  Weft is Texas-based musician Charlie Anderson, who has played violin on some Panopticon albums. This album came out back in mid-December and I totally missed at the time. Luckily it came back up in my recommendations, because it is great.

  The Splintered Oar is a bit of a kitchen-sink affair. There are stretches that remind me of Red Album/Blue Record-era Baroness, but there are also strains of death metal and black metal (more of the latter than the former) woven in. There are power metal-style choral vocals, and some prog flourishes too.

  It feels like the sort of thing that shouldn't work, and normally I would expect to be annoyed by the crazily eclectic approach here, but somehow it works here. The whole thing holds together even though it takes some pretty bold leaps, and I like it a lot.

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  Guldet gemt i Afgrunden: 2025

  Afgrunden

  USA. Violinisten fra Panopticon er hovedmanden. Austin Lunn (hovedmanden i Panopticon) er også med på trommer og guitar.