KHANATE Capture & Release LP

KHANATE Capture & Release LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Available again on vinyl for the first time in years, Khanate's third album Capture & Release remains one of the most harrowing recordings in the band's discography, a two-song full length that delves into the most paranoid depths of the group's sonic abyss. The band, made up of James Plotkin (OLD, Namanax, Atomsmasher), Stephen O'Malley (Burning Witch, Sunn, Æthenor), Tim Wyskida (Blind Idiot God) and Alan Dubin (OLD, Gnaw), continued the deconstruction of low-frequency metal into an abstract nightmare of jet-black drone amplifier drones suspended in empty space, utilizing withering blasts of extreme vocal torture and agonizing percussive pressure to produce some of the most disturbing and nihilistic music to have emerged in the past decade. For fans of extreme sonic horror, this career high point is a must-get.
  Birthed from a black hole, "Capture" opens with a vomiting of frantic, terrified screams and rotten guitar feedback, a long slow spew of malformed low-end drones and fractured, discordant guitar chords slung like viscera over the splintered, formless drumming. Right from the start, the band oozes dread and paranoia across their abstracted doom, the sound pregnant with nauseous twists of minor key melody and pestilent electronics. There's no real riff to grasp on to, as the guitar shatters into atonal shards and howling feedback that feels more akin to hearing the black psychedelia of Pathétique-era Fushitsusha in rapid deceleration, stripped down to a more lumbering, cadaverous form, the spaces stretched even wider, allowing yawning emptiness to open up in the cracks between the lurching atonal sludge. A formless nightmare of slippery detuned bass and splintered chords, polluted even further by stray bits of squealing feedback, the scrape of metal against guitar frets, and fluttering electronics. The surreal, schizoid atmosphere is in large part produced by singer Dubin's bizarre vocal manipulations, which he uses to send his scowling screams and exhortations spinning out across the void like briefly glimpsed fragments of some mysterious radio signal astray in the abyss. The lyrics that you can pick out from the rubble resemble the ravings of someone on the outer edge of a pending psychotic break. It takes quite awhile for the band to eventually coalesce into a recognizable riff, but when it comes into focus, the effect is devastating, stained in regret and suffering. Khanate's masterful manipulation of low-end frequencies to achieve their aim of disorienting and disturbing the listener is in full view here.
   So when "Release" softly creaks in, the drop in pressure is palpable. The first few minutes of the song is all ambient murk, the sounds of groaning strings and tortured wood haunting a lightless void. This gnarled electro-acoustic terrain is finally ruptured when the full band finally crashes back into the world, in painful slow motion. But then there's the subdued second half of the song, which drifts into an almost Codeine-like stretch of pensive slowcore that, through a series of feints and false-starts, manages to be at least as threatening as the rest of the album. The climactic snarling of instruments, the rabid breakdown of what minimal order the band was able to create, it all comes apart at the seams across the final moments, an exhausting tangle of oceanic feedback and free-jazz percussion haunted by the repeated line "...it's cold when I'm near you...", the suffocating level of despondency billowing outward like black smoke.
  Limited to two thousand copies, this latest reissue comes in a heavy tip-on jacket, pressed on black vinyl; as with previous vinyl editions of Capture, the second song "Release" is featured here in an edited form, due to the space restrictions of the format.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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