Panopticon
by Isis
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Panopticon is ranked as the best album by Isis.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/04/2026 11:34 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,325 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2026 00:39 | Untitled | 1,745 | 77/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 17:48 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
| ! | 02/22/2025 15:42 | Irik | 16 | 99/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2024 16:37 | boppare | 2,863 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.5/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.
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More or less the same issue I had with Oceanic, namely the vocals, which I found extremely distracting.
elo269megv 08/31/2018 00:54 | #220297 | TOP COMMENT
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Love the instrumentation, easy to get lost in it at times, its heavy yet dreamy. 50/50 on the vocals though.. I like the melodic bits, and even some of the yelling, but the screamo/black metal parts I don't care for very much... 7.5/8ish territory for me
Cojo7 03/25/2016 20:09 | #162527 | TOP COMMENT
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Great album, too bad they can't do any more concerts in Paris.
TheHolyKiwi 08/10/2015 08:48 | #147422 | TOP COMMENT
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Fuck it, I gave it a 100/100, it's basically essential.
TheHolyKiwi 07/09/2015 07:03 | #145372 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is so damn close to an essential 100/100, I think "Altered Course" drags on for too long but besides that, the album it is absolutely amazing. Some gorgeous instrumentation here and atmospheric beauty.
Lyrics are Understandable, but in many ways is one of the best experimental metal albums ever with Oceanic.
The instrumentation is fantastic, but the vocals are sometimes not very good at all.
Anti 03/08/2015 22:23 | #136392 | TOP COMMENT
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I was not expecting something this massive in sound. Definitely going to give it another listen sometime soon.
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