Khanate to reissue »Capture & Release« and »Clean Hands Go Foul« on May 24th via Sacred Bones Records!
Photo by Ebru Yildiz
After a 14-year hiatus, Khanate returned in 2023 with the release of »To Be Cruel«, followed by physical reissues of their first two albums (»Khanate« and »Things Viral«), and now, as they prepare for their first live performances in nearly two decades, the band announces the forthcoming vinyl and CD reissues of »Capture & Release« and »Clean Hands Go Foul« via Sacred Bones Records on May 24th, 2024.
Pre-orders are available now: »Capture & Release« (pre-order) / »Clean Hands Go Foul« (pre-order).
Khanate’s live return is as precise and spare as these records and comprises only three perfectly curated performances: Roadburn Festival on April 20, followed by shows in Copenhagen on April 22nd at Basement and Berlin on April 23rd at Berghain.
As part of their Roadburn appearance, Khanate is also participating in the festival’s side program, taking part in a conversation with renowned artist Seldon Hunt on April 19th. Tickets for all shows can be purchased here.
Additionally, Khanate has shared live footage of »Capture & Release« from their 2006 performance at the WIRE Adventure in Music Festival in Chicago. The performance was originally released as a limited-edition DVD with »Clean Hands Go Foul«.
Upon its arrival, »Capture & Release« (2005) was described as “a doom metal opera” (Pitchfork). The two-track album is a grim tale of fixation, abduction and torture recited over 43 minutes. Lyrically, it might be Alan Dubin’s most upsettingly realistic Khanate narrative, an account of darkness and cruelty that few previous bands had explored. Musically, it is wave after wave of horror and despair.
»Capture & Release« track listing:
01. Capture
02. Release
The squalid room on the cover of »Clean Hands Go Foul« (originally released in 2009) may or may not be the setting for the unspeakable acts being committed on »In That Corner«, but the opening couplet of 33-minute closer »Every God Damn Thing« plainly speaks of declining stability and a looming demise: “Am I dying? I hope it’s soon.”
“»Clean Hands Go Foul« is an excellent example of the unusual methods Khanate employed throughout our existence,” James Plotkin says. “It’s a posthumous document of how we could embrace a complete change of direction and intent, solely for the excitement of experimentation. The fact that the entire album consists of unedited first takes as a fully realized work suggests that the band had developed an internal musical dialogue that even we weren’t fully aware of at the time.”
»Clean Hands Go Foul« track listing:
01. Wings From Spine
02. In That Corner
03. Clean My Heart
04. Every God Damn Thing
Khanate is Alan Dubin (vocals), Stephen O’Malley (guitar), James Plotkin (bass) and Tim Wyskida (drums). Khanate’s fifth album, »To Be Cruel« arrived in May of 2023 via Sacred Bones Records, ending a 14-year hiatus for the band. Stereogum said the three-song, sixty-plus minute album is “just as uncompromising as their past work,” SPIN declared them “more relevant than ever,” and Decibel, in a sprawling Q&A with James Plotkin, said of the influential outfit: “Even calling them a doom band sells them short. The cramped corner of hell that Khanate takes the listener to, sonically and psychologically, is way beyond doom. It’s doom as a forgone conclusion…”
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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well