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Group Members: James Plotkin/ Brent Gutzeit, Stephen O'malley & Attila Csihar, James Plotkin, James Plotkin/ Mark Spybey
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Khanate (pronounced "khan-eight") formed in the year 2000 with the intention of setting new standards for pain and ugliness in the doom metal genre. Their songs are marked by dissonant, heavily down-tuned guitar/bass figures, extremely slow tempos, swarms of high-pitched feedback, and painfully shrieked vocals, making for a genuinely anguished and challenging listening experience -- put another way, their music is not for everybody. The quartet is headed up by guitarist Stephen O'Malley (Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer, Sunn O)))) and bassist James Plotkin (OLD, Atomsmasher, etc.), two musicians whose reputations in the underground metal/experimental arenas precede them and can give listeners an idea of what to expect from the band. Rounding out the lineup are vocalist Alan Dubin (also formerly of OLD) and drummer Tim Wyskida. Khanate released their self-titled debut in the fall of 2001 on Southern Lord Records.
Wikipedia:
Khanate, or Chanat, is a Turco-Mongol-originated word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In modern Turkish, the word used is kağanlık, and in modern Azeri of the republic of Azerbaijan, xanlıq. In Mongolian the word khanlig is used, as in "Khereidiin Khanlig" meaning the Khanate of the Kerait. This political entity is typical for people from the Eurasian Steppe and it can be equivalent to tribal chiefdom, principality, kingdom or even empire.
Turkic khanates
Göktürk KhaganateWestern Turkic KhaganateEurasian Avars KhaganateUyghur KhaganateKara-Khanid KhanateKhazar KhaganateTurgesh KhaganateMongol khanates
When Genghis Khan died he divided his empire into four sections for each of his sons and grandsons which essentially marked the end of a unified empire and the emergence of four separate khanates, which were:
Khanate of Kipchak (Golden Horde)Khanate of ChaghadaiKhanate of PersiaKhanate of the Great KhanPost-Mongol khanates
Khanate of Kazan (Mongol term khan became active since Genghizide dynasty was settled in Kazan Duchy in 1430s; imperial Russian added to its titles the former Kazan khanate with the royal style tsar.Sibirean Khanate (giving its name to Siberia as the first significant conquest during Russia's great eastern expansion across the Ural range)Astrakhan KhanateCrimean KhanateKhoshut KhanateExamples of other, humbler Tatar khanate dynasties made vassals of Muscovy / Russia include:
the Qasim Khanate (hence modern Kasimov), named after its founder, a vassal of Moscovia/Russiathe nomadic state founded in 1801 as the Inner Horde (also called Buqei Horde, under Russian suzerainty) between Volga and Yaik (Ural) rivers by 5,000 families of Kazakhs from Younger Kazakh Zhuz tribe under a Sultan was restyled by the same in 1812 as Khanate of the Inner Horde; in 1845 the post of Khan was abolished);the Kalmyk khanate (established c.1632 by the Torghut branch of the Mongolian Oirats, settled along the lower Volga River (in modern Russia and Kazakhstan)Nogai Khanatethe khanate of Tuva near Outer Mongolia.Baku Khanate in present-day Azerbaijan.Besh Tau ElFurther east, in imperial China's western Turkestan flank:
Dörben Oyriad ('Four Confederates') or Dzungar (Kalmyk or Kalmuck people branch) Khanate formed in 1626, covering Xinjiang region of China, Kyrgyzstan, eastern Kazakhstan and western Mongolia; 2 December 1717 - 1720 also styled Protector of Tibet; 1755 tributary to China, 1756 annexed and dissolved in 1757Khanate of Kashgaria founded in 1514 as part of Djagataide Khanate;17th century divided into several minor khanates without importance, real power going to the so-called Khwaja, Arabic islamic religious leaders; title changed to Amir Khan in 1873, annexed by China in 1877.
Kumul Khanate- vassal state to Qing dynasty and Republic of China, abolished in 1930.
