catalogue

KHANATE

TO BE CRUEL (LTD. WHITE VINYL) (SACRED BONES)

KHANATE - TO BE CRUEL (LTD. WHITE VINYL) 158888
format:
2 LP
release:
30.06.2023
label:
SACRED BONES
genre:
Metal
item ID:
158888
barcode:
0843563158982
The highly influential Khanate return with their first album in 14 years, developing their singular and signature precise, temporal abstract doom beyond all thresholds.

Khanate are Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), KTL), James Plotkin (OLD, Scorn, Phantomsmasher), Alan Dubin (OLD, Gnaw) and Tim Wyskida (Blind Idiot God).

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.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. LIKE A POISONED DOG
  • 1.2. IT WANTS TO FLY
  • 1.3. TO BE CRUEL