During their initial run, from 2000 till 2006, New York City’s explosive Khanate helped usher in a new era of experimental heavy metal, setting off an ongoing wave of interest in bands such as ...

Khanate were stretching doom metal far beyond conventional musicality, as guitarist Stephen O’Malley’s [also of Sunn O))), drone-metal pioneers] strums hung in arrested shock, bleeding out ...

Having broken their decade-plus hiatus in April when they surprise-released their first album in 14 years, To Be Cruel, U.S. avant-doom legends Khanate have been announced as the first act for ...