Khanate were the first great experimental metal band of the 21st Century but folded in 2006 due to intense internally generated pressures; they have returned with a stunning new album To Be Cruel released on Sacred Bones today, with news of live gigs and a full reissue programme. The four musicians speak to John Doran about breaking ground and eating livers. All photographs by Ebru Yildiz
TQ's John Doran hits the south coast this weekend to expand on the links between Venom's 'In League With Satan' and Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' and between Napalm Death's 'You Suffer' and Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot' that you were previously too afraid (or too sensible) to consider