Khanate - To Be Cruel CD/2LP

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.

Tracklist:

1. Like a Poisoned Dog
2. It Wants to Fly
3. To Be Cruel

About this product: this release is available on CD and 2LP formats.

The 2LP is pressed on white vinyl.