Trivia / Panopticon

• Creator Backlash: While not dissatisfied with the music itself, Lunn has expressed regret for the production of the original versions of Social Disservices and, to a lesser extent, ...On the Subject of Mortality, which he attributes to not having known much about music production when he recorded them. They were remixed and remastered by Colin Marston and Spenser Morris; Lunn is much more satisfied with the Revisions of the Past versions. (The first two albums, as detailed directly below, were engineered by one of Lunn's friends and thus didn't have the same production problems.)
• Newbie Boom: Kentucky widened the band's audience substantially, most likely because it was previously unheard of for a band to mix bluegrass and Black Metal as thoroughly as Panopticon did on that album. It was also a very good album.
• Referenced by...: The level "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" in the Marathon Game Mod Eternal is named for one of Panopticon's songs. Note that this title only appears in version 1.2 and later (starting from beta 6; you can get old and work-in-progress versions from the development page); it's a composite of two levels from previous versions of the game^note one of the levels, "Forever My Greatest and Only Love", had been removed from version 1.1 of the game due to a plot rewrite, but the creators liked it enough to want to bring it back in; since the game's structure made it unpalatable to change the number of levels, it was combined with the optional level "May the Pfharce Be With You" for 1.2, thus engendering a name change. It should perhaps be noted that Eternal has a subtly anarchist message underneath the many layers of symbolism in its plot; the usage of a song title from an anarchist band was very much deliberate.
• Similarly Named Works: Panopticon is also an album by Isis. They're both named after the same concept, so it figures.