3-497: James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer known for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has played guitar for Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null , Nadja , Sunn O))) , ISIS , Pelican and Earth . He works in the genres of grindcore , industrial metal , noise music , drone metal , dark ambient , digital hardcore and post-metal . This article about
6-556: A rock musician from the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Khanate (band) Khanate is an American drone doom supergroup 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 with O'Malley's previous band Burning Witch , Khanate produces songs that usually exceeded
9-485: The 10-minute mark, characterized by extremely slow tempos , harsh layers of feedback , and vocalist Alan Dubin's torturous shrieking. On September 24, 2006, Khanate 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 [that] sparked some talk of
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