Khanates

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Khanates
Alan Dubin at a Khanate concert in 2005
Alan Dubin at a Khanate concert in 2005
General information
origin New York City , United States
Genre (s) Drone Doom , Sludge
founding 2000
resolution 2006
Last occupation
singing
 Alan Dubin
Drums
 Tim Wyskida
guitar
 Stephen O'Malley
Electric bass
 James Plotkin

Khanate was a drone doom band founded in 2000 and disbanded in 2006 .

history

The bass player from OLD and Scorn James Plotkin and the guitarist Stephen O'Malley from Sunn O))) , Thorr's Hammer and Burning Witch got to know each other in autumn 2000 while attending an Isis concert in Manhattan and decided to initiate a joint music project. On Plotkin's initiative, Alan Dubin, who was also active at OLD, was called in as a singer. With the former drummer of Blind Idiot God Tim Wyskida, the group was completed by winter 2001. In the months that followed, the group arranged their self-titled debut, which was released through Southern Lord .

Following the release, the band , which was highlighted as a supergroup , went on a joint US tour with Thrones and Sigh . After the two subsequent and mostly highly acclaimed albums Things Viral and Capture & Release as well as international appearances with groups like Villains or Wreck of the Hesperus , Plotkin decided to leave the group in 2006 due to the lack of engagement of certain unnamed members, which meant the factual breakup of the band. In retrospect, unreleased recordings that were made during the studio work on Capture & Release were released as the last album Clean Hands Go Foul 2009.

style

Stephen O'Malley performing with Khanate in New York in 2005

Khanate's music is a mixture of Sludge and Drone Doom with musical influences from Black Metal . According to William York from Allmusic , the music is characterized by dissonant and deeply tuned guitar and bass figures, extremely slow tempos , feedback and the painful screeching and roaring of Dubin.

York describes Khanate's music as “a challenging listening experience”. Louis Pattison of the New Musical Express describes the music as "terrifying". According to Thomas Kerpen from Ox-Fanzine , the group's pieces are a "depressive bunch of atonal acoustic eruptions". According to Volkmar Weber from Rock Hard , music provides and mediates an “all-embracing depression of all parts of the body.” The mediated depressive mood is also emphasized by Alex Henderson for Allmusic. He calls the music the "most depressing Doom Metal " and draws a comparison to the sludge band Grief .

Dubin's voice, which is usually identified as the central element, is often compared to that of Bon Scott . However, Dubin's style of singing is far from Scott's singing, despite the vocal similarity. Dubin's singing is sometimes described as "Bon Scott in slow motion". This reference is also made on the website of the Southern Lord label. The label describes the music of the second album as the " Bon Scott era of AC / DC , which was puked out during a Quaalude feast and which was recorded in the studio by Steve Albini ".

The bass and guitar playing are considered to be extremely slow, unstructured and heavily distorted. Overloads and feedback often flow into the sound of the particularly deeply tuned instruments. Playing the drums is, however, just as poor in structure. The percussion figures appear hardly controlled and more like "irregular interjections".

Discography

  • 2001: Khanate (album, Southern Lord)
  • 2002: Live WFMU 91.1 (Live, Southern Lord)
  • 2003: Things Viral (album, Southern Lord)
  • 2003: No Joy (Remix) (EP, Southern Lord)
  • 2004: Let Loose the Lambs (Live-DVD, Southern Lord)
  • 2004: KHNT vs. Stockholm (Live, Southern Lord)
  • 2004: Live Aktion Sampler 2004 (Live, Southern Lord)
  • 2005: Capture & Release (album, Southern Lord)
  • 2005: Dead / Live Actions (DVD, Southern Lord)
  • 2005: It's Cold When Birds Fall from the Sky (Live, Southern Lord)
  • 2009: Clean Hands Go Foul (Album, Southern Lord)

Web links

Commons : Khanate  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Khanate. Southern Lord, archived from the original on January 8, 2007 ; accessed on March 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ James Plotkin: Khanates. Plotkinworks, archived from the original on January 5, 2007 ; accessed on March 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b c d William York: Khanate. Allmusic, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Louis Pattison: Heavy, Heavier, Heaviest: A Beginner's Guide To Doom-Drone. Boilerroom.tv, February 17, 2015, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c Thomas Kerpen: Khanate: Khanate. Ox fanzine, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  6. ^ Volkmar Weber: Khanate: Things Viral. Rock Hard, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b Alex Henderson: Khanate: Things Viral. Allmusic, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  8. ^ Matthias: Khanate: Capture & Release. metal.de, accessed on March 16, 2018 .
  9. ^ A b Matthias: Khanate: Clean Hands Go Foul. metal.de, accessed on March 16, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Chris Dahlen: Khanate: Things Viral. Pitchfork, accessed March 16, 2018 .