Clean Hands Go Foul

Khanate | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hydrahead Records
• ASIN: B00265SBA8
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,791 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #82 in Music > Hard Rock & Metal > Death Metal

Editorial Reviews

2009 release from the extreme Doom Metal group. Clean Hands Go Foul represents the final nail in the Khanate coffin, and a more fitting ending could not have been devised. Having left hordes of imitators in their wake, there will only ever be one Khanate. Clean Hands Go Foul is the most interesting material from Khanate and is telepathic in its cohesion. In past albums the emotional current only went from hate to anger to overt violence, but the new album has a resigned and tender sadness to it; it really resonates with its listeners.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Pleasure of Godawful Noise., December 25, 2010

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This review is from: Clean Hands Go Foul (Audio CD)

Khanate has always been good plying the dark territory between heavy music and painful, screeching noise. "Clean Hands Go Foul" does not improve on the Khanate template, but deepens it a little. You have to be willing, as with most Doom/Drone Metal, to suspend your expectations of traditional structures and go with the stretched-riff aesthetic. When you just let the whole huge, rumbling, feedback-spiked cacophony envelop you in bracing, keening sound, it is then you have reached the zone this music seems meant to throw you into. Tense and terrifying, yet concurrently oddly relaxing, "Clean Hands Go Foul" continues the ghoulish "rat-thing from beyond the grave" vocal style we have all grown to love and fear - and the lyrics remain faithfully disturbing. This certainly is an acquired taste, but I really have to say how much it has grown on me - like a fungus or a livid skin-rash! Enjoyable to those of you (like me) who expect a fuzzy heap of squalling dissonance combined with our percolating sub-cycle bass shuddering. Add the "angry-dead" vocals and you have a bitter metallic stew of aural astonishment! Mucho recommended!