YMMV / Panopticon

• Archive Panic: Panopticon's discography is already fairly large, but if you want to collect everything Lunn has recorded (with projects like Seidr, Falls of Rauros, Kólga, Agnosis, Anagnorisis, Throndt, Plainwords, Dämmerfarben, and so on), good luck. A complete list of bands he's either been a member of or performed session work for can be found at Metal Archives.
• Awesome Music: Basically all of it. The self-titled album, Collapse, ...On the Subject of Mortality, Kentucky, Roads to the North, and The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness stand out as particularly strong releases, but there really isn't a weak link anywhere to be found.
• Broken Base: Is Kentucky a masterpiece or a sloppily thought out release that has its energy sucked out of it by its mixture of Black Metal and bluegrass without really blending the two in an enjoyable way? The former is a more common opinion in most online communities (Sputnik Music being one rare exception), but there's usually a Vocal Minority that has the latter. The Mood Whiplash on the album is clearly intentional; there's simply disagreement as to whether it works.
• Epic Riff: Many. Some songs with notably epic riffs include "I, Hedonist", "Patient", "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" and "Into the North Woods"^note  Autumn Eternal in general is full of them.
• Even Better Sequel: This is a fairly common opinion of The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness in relation to his earlier work. Fans may have other works they'd cite as examples of this trope; Roads to the North seems to be a particularly popular choice.
• Tear Jerker: Some of the songs tend to be this, but albums examples are Collapse (the eventual collapse of the Western world due to the abuse of capitalism) and Kentucky (the destruction of all the hard work coal miners have endured).
  • Most of, if not all of The Scars of Man is this, in particular the ending track "Snow Burdened Branches" of Disc I. The second disc is also full of them, especially "Four Walls of Bone", about social anxiety; and "(Cowering) at the Foot of the Mountain", a heartfelt love song that doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
  • "Norwegian Nights", a somber folky song with Austin singing about the isolation and loneliness of a cold night. Probably also the only song off of Roads to the North that had its lyrics released to the public.
  • "Rune's Heart" from the Nechochwen split, considering the context behind Lunn dedicating it to his son of the same name and his wife during the former having to deal with health-related issues.
    • Even the accompanying essay on Bandcamp qualifies, also arguably falling into Nightmare Fuel. Reading about a two-year-old with PTSD is... sobering to say the least.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Averted in a sense. Lunn's lyrics are political^note Though they got less so from Roads to the North through the Waldgeflüster split - apparently, since they haven't been released, but not in a very dramatic or divisive-like status, and coming off as being more progressive at that, with some samples deconstructing right-wing speeches but showing decency of LGBT standards. The only song that really comes off as an Author Tract is "Flag Burner, Torch Bearer", which was very explicitly intended to be one.