Khanate – Capture & Release CD Discount

Largely recognized as their breakthrough album, Khanate was confident enough by the two-song, forty-minute Capture & Release (2005) to peel back its layers of thick mossy drone and reveal the minimalist underpinnings, a change either interpreted as maturity or an implied threat. It s a grim, avant-garde exercise in tension and paranoia. Dense, leaden drones fill up the spaces between O Malley s sparse, deeply sustained guitar chords.

Vocalist Alan Dubin s anguished vocals seem to convey the tortures of the damned as if there were not a shred of hope left for existence in this world. Capture & Release is not dissimilar to black metal in how it so violently conveys such a bleak and ultra-nihilistic world outlook. But while the standard tempo on a black metal album typically strays into the triple digits in terms of beats per minute, Khanate s plodding pace keeps the BPM soundly within the single-digit range. (Tiny Mix Tapes).