Khanate - Things Viral
| Release date: | 6 October 2003 |
| Style: | Doom metal, Extreme sludge metal |
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01. Commuted
02. Fields
03. Dead
04. Too Close Enough To Touch
02. Fields
03. Dead
04. Too Close Enough To Touch
06.10.2023
| 06.10.2023 |
Khanate returned with a new album after 14 years. A return to the stage has been promised and the label announced re-issues for the first two albums. The stars aligned themselves perfectly so that you, Metalstormer, can ruin your whole weekend with what I think it’s the band’s masterpiece. I’m talking about their sophomore record, Things Viral, which turns 20 years today. This is when the drone super-group deconstructed the foundations of sludge metal from their debut, in order to transport the listener to a far more surreal landscape of horror. Some of these viral things include minimalistic song structures, waves of feedback, ultra-low bass, unpredictable drumming, unnerving electronic effects, and a terrifying vocal performance. Khanate mastered the concept of torture music from the start. No one came close enough to touch them. No one dared to. X-Ray Rod's picks | More picks ›› |
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18274  |
Swans worship? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Account deleted Written by X-Ray Rod on 20.04.2016 at 15:33 Swans have changed shape a couple of times, have you listened to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6vMo7Qp0zA
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
How anyone can call this Swans worship is beyond me. Clearly said person is deaf.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| Alex F Slick Dick Rick Posts: 3502  |
Yeah this is pretty fucking far from sounding anything like Swans, even at their most harsh and abstract moments
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Account deleted Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 20.04.2016 at 18:12 Son, you got a lot to learn. Youre influence here despite youre indifferent knowledge and arrogance is beyond me. Read the link below and then apologise to me for calling me deaf, try to show some respect to other users.  http://www.cosmiclava.com/reviews-interviews/interviews/2001/khanate.html
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18274 |
There's a HUGE leap between influences and worship, dude. That would be like saying Opeth is Pink Floyd worship all the way through.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Guest on 20.04.2016 at 19:25 All it says there that early Swans has been an influence on them. Nothing to do with them worshipping Swans. 
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| mz Posts: 4773  |
10ing this. No other release has captured and released abstract horror so effectively.
---- Giving my ears a rest from music.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18274 |
Written by mz on 29.12.2021 at 03:31 You did the right thing. This album remains unique in its delivery, structure, atmosphere, pretty much anything. Disturbing yet eerily cathartic specially by the very ending.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| mz Posts: 4773 |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 29.12.2021 at 19:39 Indeed almost 20 years after its release, there is nothing similar to it except for the other record from khanate.
---- Giving my ears a rest from music.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18274 |
Happy 20th birthday, Things Viral. Thank you for ruining my life when I was 15. The video is pretty cringy by today's standards and the whole song is not in it (specially the brutal crescendo at the very end). But I still remember how freaked out I was the first time I saw Alan scream "OOOOUUUUUTTTSSSSSIIIIDEEEEEEEE".
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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