Khanate
Things Viral
Sacred Bones Records
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2023
2LP (white)
28.99/32.99
SBR3044LPX
2LP
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SBR3044LP
180g vinyl
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Tracklist
1Things Viral – Commuted 19:09
2Things Viral – Fields 19:54
3Things Viral – Dead 9:27
4Things Viral – Too Close Enough To Touch 11:13

Sensing that defenses to their contagion were down, »Things Viral« (2003) withdrew from any familiar or friendly shapes. On their second offering, the band decelerated to its own tempo, freezing the decay of the debut in a shocking and powerful stasis. Pitchfork lauds, »Khanate have that skill for unfolding an action in such excruciating detail that you're slowly edged off your seat_ Things Viral is extreme enough to appeal to people who don't have any interest in metal; the members cross metal pedigrees with noise-drone-art-damage bands-- from Burning Witch and Old, to Sunn 0))), to Blind Idiot God's Tim Wyskida on drums. It's committed but not overbearing, too resolute and unyielding to resist; it'll grab your skull and hold you achingly still as it thrashes through the depths, then totally, quietly wears itself out.«