Washington, DC’s Vestiges and Louisville, KY’s Panopticon have teamed up for a split album on The Flenser. The limited-edition LP contains two of Vestiges’ strongest songs yet—18 minutes of material—and three unreleased tracks by Panopticon (including a Suicide Nation cover). 
Vestiges formed in January of 2010 and have already released several critically acclaimed EPs and full-lengths that blend hardcore, black metal, crust, D-beat, screamo and post-rock influences. 
One-man North American black metal entity Panopticon has almost a dozen releases under its belt over the past six years, and Metal Underground called the band “... far from traditional, and always dynamic.” In 2012, they released their black metal / bluegrass hybrid masterpiece album Kentucky to great critical acclaim. 
 
“... this split should be noted as one of the best exemplifications of where extreme music is....” —CVLT Nation 
“Two of the most interesting and musically original US extreme metal bands now going....” —No Clean Singing