Khanate – Clean Hands Go Foul LP Vinyl and Merciless Crucifixion

and Merciless Crucifixion

“Grindcore

arises with its most exploratory and ambitious works to date

there are countless bands who either add a tremendous weight to black metal or whet its ever-dulling blade

and each day we built off of the prior day’s creative energies and inspirations until it bloomed into something immense

Khanate – Clean Hands Go Foul LP Vinyl and Merciless CrucifixionClean Hands Go Foul (2009) generously offers more of everything: voluminous drones, clashing dissonance, mysterious subharmonic swells, escalating terror, and environments drenched in heavy anticipatory dread. The final hour of the bands first decade sees Khanate, as always, making music that, even in the realm of extreme music, is dark and distorted (Pitchfork). Clean Hands Go Foul Would be followed by the ultimate minimalism, as the Khanate entity