Khanate (band)

Khanate
Left-Right: Stephen O'Malley, James Plotkin, Tim Wyskida, Alan Dubin
Background information
Origin	New York City, New York, United States
Genres	Drone metal, doom metal, sludge metal
Years active	2001–2006; 2009–2010
Labels	Southern Lord Records Hydra Head Records Load Records
Website	Khanate label page
Past members	Alan Dubin James Plotkin Stephen O'Malley Tim Wyskida

Khanate was a drone metalsupergroup that brought together James Plotkin and Alan Dubin, two members of the defunct band OLD, as well as Tim Wyskida of Blind Idiot God and Manbyrd) and Stephen O'Malley of Burning Witch and Sunn O))).

Keeping some similarity to O'Malley's previous band Burning Witch, Khanate produced songs that usually exceeded the 10-minute mark, characterised by extremely slow tempos, harsh layers of feedback and vocalist Alan Dubin's torturous shrieking.

As of September 24, 2006, Khanate was split up, with Plotkin stating that the "lack of commitment from certain members" led to the split.

In the January/February 2009 issue of Rock-A-Rolla magazine, vocalist Alan Dubin stated: "we had a few festival offers which sparked some talk of a reunion but they didn't pan out in the end." He went on to say, "I highly doubt a reunion will happen."