Search for   wildcard searchword search With search mode ANDOR in allband specialsreviewsarticlesmp3 section(s) And sort the results by BandnameAlbumtitle/Articletitle/SongDate show articles written by All authorsNiels van Rongen Andreas Oelke Sander Hordijk Jacob Avlund Justin Faase Aldo Quispel Dan Felch François Monti Jeff Jacobus David Bauwens Roger Batty Patrick Toepoel John Pusieski Duncan Simpson Erwin Michelfelder N.S. Endebo Nicholas Szczepanik Delirious Insomniac manuel pereira Russell Cuzner Sven Klippel Serdar Yegulalp Josh Landry Lawrence J. Patti David Bourgoin Viktorya Kaufholz Andy Ortmann Various Justin Marc Lloyd Martin P James DC Todd Robinson Nicola Vinciguerra Bill Too Ross Baker Richard T Williams Paul Casey Hal Harmon Dave Biddulph Michael Cunningham Jean-Paul Garnier Tyler L. Julien Skrobek Cory Strand Adam Skyes Darren Charles James Shearman Sergey Pakhomov Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt Lob Instagon Jennifer Wallis Jan Warnke Damien De Coene A. Cooley Manuel Armida-Honner Julien Skrobek Karl Grümpe Colin Lang Alex McLean Cavan Gilbey Sarah Gregory Jac Silver Casper van der Veen Joanne West William Burns    Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Khanate - Things Viral [Southern Lord - 2003] The tektonic doom-unit Khanate drops their second album and you can only stand in awe of the immense power that this quartet generates. As slow and destructive as drifting ice the album completely crushes everything on its way. The quartet comes up with a version of doom that's extreme and unique. Where Steve O'Malley's other band Sunn 0))) has some cathartic and even soothing ambient quality, Khanate chokes the listener with grim emptiness. On Things Viral the sound is more open, with more room for Alan Dubin's vocal insanity and James Plotkin's sound processing. It seems (semi)-acoustic ambient project Lotus Eaters (which features Plotkin and O'Malley) left its marks on Khanate's sound. O'Malley told m[m] co-worker François that Alan Dubin actually scared the shit out of him with his performance and that doesn't surprise me at all. Dubin sounds possessed and desperate. He whispers and he screams his superb lyrics like mantra's or incantations. Plotkin distorts his vocals digitally which only makes them more terrifying. The slow tempo and the 'soundcontrol' makes every interference, every feedback, every detail part of the music. It's like a crossover of incredibly slow, almost abstract doom with glitch and microsound. "Is there hope?" asks Dubin in Fields, the second track. If there ever was, it surely must be gone now. In about an hour Khanate drags you through a barren and desolate musical landscape, to leave you exhausted and at the end of your rope (or searching for one). No stoner grooves, no melancholic melodies. Just dark emptiness and desperation... Khanate - Things Viral The tektonic doom-unit Khanate drops their second album and you can only stand in awe of the immense power that this quartet generates. As slow and destructi... 300126   Eldritch Priest - Dead-Wall R... 300126   Jürg Frey - Je Laisse à La ... 290126   The Assassination Bureau - T... 280126   Spent Stiletto/ No Fun Harsh ... 280126   Evil Damn - Eons of Horror 280126   Pink Wool/Sado  Ritual - Split 280126   Olion - Glimmers of Hope 270126   King Futile - How To Have Fun 270126   Devil Times Five - Devil Time... 260126   Slaves No More - House Of Dolls Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Wall... Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South... 290126   Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding ... 231225   Creepy Images Books - Killer Art 221225   Best Of 2025 - Music, Sound &... 041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr... 281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb... 071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of... 030925   Third Window Films - A Label ... 130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr... 250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F... 180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...

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