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Things Viral (Southern Lord)
by Brian Varney
The best way to prepare you for the auditory torture of Things Viral is an AV example, so what everyone reading at home needs to do is pull out your vinyl copy of Lysol by Melvins and take it down to that old turntable of your grandpa’s in the basement, the one that has 16 and 78 speed settings. Set the speed at 16 and spin the opening minutes of the album, the ones where nothing much happens except the whole band hits a single massive note, waits a few seconds, does it again, and repeats this same pattern without variance for ten minutes. Add a singer who sounds like he binges and purges his diet of alcohol and black-market pain pills when he’s not screaming himself raw and you’ve got an idea of the horror within.
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