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KHANATE – Announce First U.S. Tour Dates Since 2005

Posted in doom metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , on January 21, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Admat photo: Maiken Kildegaard

CAREER-SPANNING SETLIST TO FEATURE TRACKS FROM TO BE CRUEL

January 21, 2025, NEW YORK – Khanate play their first North American shows in 20 years this spring, with a trio of rare live dates, including headlining performances in Chicago and New York, as well as a featured spot at the Prepare The Ground festival in Toronto.

Khanate tour dates:

May 30 – Chicago, IL Thalia Hall (Jon Mueller opens)
June 1 – Toronto, ON Prepare The Ground
June 3 – New York, NY (Le) Poisson Rouge (Mick Barr opens)

Tickets are on-sale this Friday, Jan. 24, at 10 am CT/11 am ET via this link: https://bnds.us/lcb8ux.

Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz Khanate: Alan Dubin (vocals), Stephen O’Malley (guitar), James Plotkin (bass) and Tim Wyskida (drums).

In the lead up to the band’s Roadburn 2024 appearance, Khanate shared: “As a collective, Khanate has been silent during our dormancy, but now we will get loud; very loud. We’ll be returning to the stage to explore tension and the elasticity of time. Get dead.”

Reviews from the event noted the band’s “powerful doom intensity” (Louder), their “glacial riffs and unyielding venomous tide of deconstructed doom” (Metal Hammer), and their “immaculate” sound with “new highs and lows of sonic extremism” (Invisible Oranges).

To Be Cruel, the band’s fifth album and first in 14 years, arrived in 2023 via Sacred Bones Records. Stereogum praised the three-song, sixty-plus minute album as “just as uncompromising as their past work,” while SPIN declared the band “more relevant than ever.” In a sprawling Q&A with Decibel, the magazine reflected on the band’s sound: “Even calling them a doom band sells them short. The cramped corner of hell that Khanate takes the listener to, sonically and psychologically, is way beyond doom. It’s doom as a forgone conclusion…”

Khanate’s full discography is available via their webstore at https://shop.khanateofficial.com/

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JOHN SYKES – Rest In Peace | A Brief Tribute To A Heavy Metal & Hard Rock Legend

Posted in classic rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal music, Music, music news, Rock Music Obituaries with tags , , , , , , on January 21, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Above: Best of John Sykes -album cover – (2000) – Mercury Records Japan

Heavy Metal and Hard Rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriting legend John Sykes passed away on Monday, January 20th at the age of 65. Metal Odyssey expresses condolences to the family, friends. fans and all past bandmates of John Sykes; God Bless him and may he rest in peace.

John Sykes’ illustrious career included being a former member of 1980’s bands Tygers of Pan Tang, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake and his very own Blue Murder, along with being a successful solo artist. John Sykes also toured Europe in 1983 with the late Phil Lynotts’ solo (live only) band named The Three Musketeers.

Above: Thin Lizzy – Thunder and Lightning – album cover – (1983) – Warner Bros.
Above: Whitesnake S/T – album cover – (1987) – Geffen Records
Above: BLUE MURDER S/T – album cover – (1989) – Geffen Records

John Sykes was born in Reading, England on July 29, 1959.

Source and more info: https://www.johnsykes.com/biography.html