April 29 street date. After being out of print for well over a decade, Khanate’s s/t 2001 debut is finally available on vinyl again. Khanate is Stephen O’Malley (Sunno))), etc), James Plotkin (Old, Jodis, etc), Alan Dubin (Old, Gnaw, etc), and Tim Wyskida (Blind Idiot God, etc). Expanded edition includes audio re-mastered by James Plotkin, the “No Joy” 12”, and deluxe packaging by Stephen O’Malley. This is music about power -- the exaltation, manifestation, the consolidation, and the earth-shattering use of sound entwined with power as means to the insular mythologies of Khanate. Call it doom. Call it sludge. Call it drone-metal. Call it anything you like, as long as the neologism focuses on the gravitational axis of power and sound. Khanate's collective history of slow corrosion and avant-metal practice lends to the supergroup conceit that was applied from afar. At that time, O’Malley had recently formed SunnO))) and come to the conclusion of Burning Witch; Plotkin’s presence in the more adventurous camps of metal and dark electronica is highlighted by his work in Old, Phantomsmasher, The Lotus Eaters (with O’Malley), etc; Tim Wyskida providing the convoluted rhythmic foundation to Blind Idiot God; and Alan Dubin’s distinctive tortured invocations had been nakedly displayed in Old (with plokin). Together, they produced an immensely influential body of work that stands as an endurance test of crushing torpor, beginning with this self-titled album. Two versions of “No Joy” land on the remastered repress of the eponymous record, taking Iggy’s snarl about “No Fun” to one logical extreme of negation for the human condition under the duress of a slow choke.
June 30 street date. The highly influential avant-garde supergroup Khanate (Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer), James Plotkin and Alan Dubin (OLD), and Tim Wyskida (Blind Idiot God, Manbyrd)) return with their first new album in 14 years, taking their signature improvisational doom to new levels of sadistic extreme. Unflinching and brutal, the seeds for "To Be Cruel" were planted in October 2017 when Tim and Stephen spent a week in the English countryside at Orgone Studio with Jamie Gomez Arrellano. James began working these sessions into overall suites of music, a process the band has classically used on all of their prior albums. By spring 2018 initial song arrangements were proposed and over the latter half of the year bass, synth and vocal tracks were added. 2019 saw the completion of writing and recording at which point it was passed to Randall Dunn to mix, alongside the band, in 2020. The three songs that comprise "To Be Cruel" are complex, powerful and multi-dimensional. The music is all-enveloping; dry, alive, rich, and blistering.
June 30 street date. The highly influential avant-garde supergroup Khanate (Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer), James Plotkin and Alan Dubin (OLD), and Tim Wyskida (Blind Idiot God, Manbyrd)) return with their first new album in 14 years, taking their signature improvisational doom to new levels of sadistic extreme. Unflinching and brutal, the seeds for "To Be Cruel" were planted in October 2017 when Tim and Stephen spent a week in the English countryside at Orgone Studio with Jamie Gomez Arrellano. James began working these sessions into overall suites of music, a process the band has classically used on all of their prior albums. By spring 2018 initial song arrangements were proposed and over the latter half of the year bass, synth and vocal tracks were added. 2019 saw the completion of writing and recording at which point it was passed to Randall Dunn to mix, alongside the band, in 2020. The three songs that comprise "To Be Cruel" are complex, powerful and multi-dimensional. The music is all-enveloping; dry, alive, rich, and blistering.
June 30 street date. The highly influential avant-garde supergroup Khanate (Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer), James Plotkin and Alan Dubin (OLD), and Tim Wyskida (Blind Idiot God, Manbyrd)) return with their first new album in 14 years, taking their signature improvisational doom to new levels of sadistic extreme. Unflinching and brutal, the seeds for "To Be Cruel" were planted in October 2017 when Tim and Stephen spent a week in the English countryside at Orgone Studio with Jamie Gomez Arrellano. James began working these sessions into overall suites of music, a process the band has classically used on all of their prior albums. By spring 2018 initial song arrangements were proposed and over the latter half of the year bass, synth and vocal tracks were added. 2019 saw the completion of writing and recording at which point it was passed to Randall Dunn to mix, alongside the band, in 2020. The three songs that comprise "To Be Cruel" are complex, powerful and multi-dimensional. The music is all-enveloping; dry, alive, rich, and blistering.
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