Capture & Release - Vinyle 180Gr

Description

Widely recognized as their landmark album, Khanate was confident enough with the two songs and forty minutes of Capture & Release (2005) to strip away its thick, mossy drone layers and reveal minimalist foundations, a change interpreted either as maturity or as an implicit threat. Dense, leaden drones fill the spaces between the sparse, deeply sustained guitar chords of Stephen O'Malley. The anguished voice of singer Alan Dubin seems to convey the torments of the damned, as if not a shred of hope for existence remains in this world. Capture & Release is not far from black metal in that it violently conveys a worldview that is as dark and ultra-nihilistic. But while the standard tempo of a black metal album typically reaches triple digits in terms of beats per minute, Khanate's slow pace keeps the BPM in single digits. For fans of Sunn O))), Swans, Godflesh, Neurosis, Boris, Earth, Om, Corrupted, Eyehategod.