Khanate’s eponymous 2001 debut has all the pleasant ambience of a plane crash site, a dark, urban mess of mangled, torn metal beams and whistling alarms. When Khanate started, the band was hailed as guitarist Stephen O’Malley’s new project, his forays into amp variances a fascinating new stage for vocalist Alan Dubin and James Plotkin’s spatial maps and low frequencies, and a warning for Tim Wyskida’s frantic drum rhythms. But Khanate was not preaching the apocalypse or offering emotional catharsis. The band was post-catastrophe. The worst had already happened and would continue to happen, again and again. For fans of Sunn O))), Swans, Godflesh, Neurosis, Boris, Earth, Om, Corrupted, Eyehategod.