Khanate is a drone/doom metal supergroup with connections to Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer, Sunn O)))), OLD, and Blind Idiot God. Their material is marked by dissonant, heavily downtuned guitar/bass figures, plodding tempos, swarms of high-pitched feedback, and painfully shrieked vocals, making for a genuinely anguished and challenging listening experience. Khanate issued multiple twisted and misanthropic long-players, including 2005's brooding, two-song opus Capture & Release, before breaking up in 2006. They re-formed in 2023 and released the caustic and discordant To Be Cruel.