LP – Limited Edition Green Vinyl (2024 Repress).

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.

Its a grim, avant-garde exercise in tension and paranoia. Dense, leaden drones fill up the spaces between OMalleys sparse, deeply sustained guitar chords. Vocalist Alan Dubins 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, Khanates plodding pace keeps the BPM soundly within the singledigit range. (Tiny Mix Tapes).

Tracklist:

A: Capture [18:13]

B: Release [25:03]

Alan Dubin (Vocals)
Stephen OMalley (Guitar)
James Plotkin (Bass, synth)
Tim Wyskida (Percussion)

Music composed by Khanate
Lyrics by Alan Dubin

Produced by James Plotkin
Recorded at Seizures Palace, SIR & Music Building

Art direction by Stephen O’Malley
Rotterdam photo by Martijn Busink

originally released August 23, 2005