| Release Date: | 063023 |
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June 30 street date. The highly influential avant-garde supergroup Khanate (Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer), James Plotkin and Alan Dubin (OLD), and Tim Wyskida (Blind Idiot God, Manbyrd) return with their first new album in 14 years, taking their signature improvisational doom to new levels of sadistic extreme.
Unflinching and brutal, the seeds for "To Be Cruel" were planted in October 2017 when Tim and Stephen spent a week in the English countryside at Orgone Studio with Jamie Gomez Arrellano. James began working these sessions into overall suites of music, a process the band has classically used on all of their prior albums. By spring 2018 initial song arrangements were proposed and over the latter half of the year bass, synth and vocal tracks were added. 2019 saw the completion of writing and recording at which point it was passed to Randall Dunn to mix, alongside the band, in 2020. The three songs that comprise "To Be Cruel" are complex, powerful and multi-dimensional. The music is all-enveloping; dry, alive, rich, and blistering.
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