Ahab
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[May 23,2007 5:37pm - ConquerTheBaphomet ""]
Anyone heard of these guys? They put out their "The Call of The Wretched Sea" album last year and it's pretty good. They have a good mix of death metal and doom metal.
www.myspace.com/ahabdoom
[May 23,2007 5:40pm - yummy ""]
yeah, I've heard of these guys. good listen imo.
[May 23,2007 5:57pm - Archaeon ""]
better than i thought
cool stuff
[May 23,2007 6:02pm - ConquerTheBaphomet ""]
Ahab is my gateway into Funeral Doom.
[May 24,2007 12:43am - ConquerTheBaphomet ""]
Bump.
[May 24,2007 1:00am - y_ddraig_goch ""]
I like how the cover art is the same painting of Mastadon's album "leviathan".
Mastadon already did the moby dick thing.
[May 24,2007 1:32am - tomx nli ""]
y_ddraig_goch said:I like how the cover art is the same painting of Mastadon's album "leviathan".
Mastadon already did the moby dick thing poorly.
fix'd
[May 24,2007 1:33am - y_ddraig_goch ""]
hahah you are right, but they still did it.
[May 24,2007 1:34am - tomx nli ""]
ps that's not the mastodon art, that's the cover from the 150th anniversary edition, 2nd printing from the northwestern university press.
yes, im from new england and yes i love teh whales
[May 24,2007 10:33am - Yeti ""]
ConquerTheBaphomet said:Ahab is my gateway into Funeral Doom.
next you should look into Evoken and Disembowelment.
[May 24,2007 7:22pm - y_ddraig_goch ""]
yeah I know it's not their cover art, I have the edition that has that painting as the cover.
[Oct 27,2008 12:56pm - Martins ""]
Listening to Ahab right now (not for the first time lul). This is the best band ever.
Nothing is more brutal.
[Oct 27,2008 12:57pm - Yeti ""]
yeah i picked up The Call of the Wretched Sea, awesome shit.
[Oct 27,2008 12:58pm - Martins ""]
Below the Sun is fucking AMAZING.
[Oct 27,2008 1:02pm - rbss ""]
this is awesome, so evil and brooding
[Oct 27,2008 3:01pm - Conservationist ""]
Moby-Dick is amazing. Did you read it?
I also always liked "Bartleby the Scrivener."
[Oct 27,2008 3:27pm - quintessence ""]
The guy responsible for this also has a project (that i prefer over this) called Catacombs. Its all lovecraft inspired funeral doom. Check that shit out. Some of the best shit out there.
[Oct 27,2008 3:29pm - Yeti ""]
no Ahab is German, the guy from Catacombs lives in Arizona.
[Oct 27,2008 3:33pm - quintessence ""]
Really? why did I think they were the same guy. Oh well its all good.
[Oct 27,2008 3:35pm - Yeti ""]
haha yeah either way its raging epic doom.
[Oct 27,2008 3:36pm - Martins ""]
FUNERAL DOOM
[Oct 27,2008 3:37pm - rbss ""]
wow Catacombs is great
[Oct 27,2008 3:40pm - Murph ""]
Conservationist said:Moby-Dick is amazing. Did you read it?
I also always liked "Bartleby the Scrivener."
And, since it's a short read, definitely read "Benito Cereno" by Melville. Although, for some on this board, it may rub your "dark skin fears" the wrong way
[Oct 27,2008 6:50pm - boblovesmusic ""]
Been listening to this band recently. So good. I love it!
[Oct 27,2008 6:54pm - the_reverend ""]
tomx%20nli said:y_ddraig_goch said:I like how the cover art is the same painting of Mastadon's album "leviathan".
Mastadon already did the moby dick thing poorly.
fix'd
Simpsons did it.
[Sep 28,2009 1:46am - MikeOv ""]
New album sounds insane. Two new tracks up on myspace are ridiculously epic.
http://www.myspace.com/ahabdoom
[Sep 28,2009 1:50am - aril ""]
still about moby dick?
[Sep 28,2009 1:56am - MikeOv ""]
They've retained the nautical theme. Sounds like they stepped up the production, the same way Esoteric eventually did.
[Sep 28,2009 3:12am - MikeOfDecrepitude ""]
It sounds like they listened to the Esoteric song "Blood of the eyes" and used that as the foundation for this album. Huge sound, extremely melodic and monstrously heavy. All the riffs are interesting and the atmosphere is one of utter gloom. At certain points his clean vocals are reminiscent Carl-Michael Eide. This is inspired songwriting, unbelievable shit.
The songs contain a digital watermark.
"The Divinity of Oceans"
http://lycanthropic-angst.blogspot.com/2009/07/ahab-divinity-of-oceans.html
[Nov 14,2009 2:01pm - Conservationist ""]
Short review:
Skepticism with more noodling, Esoteric with more hope.
[Nov 14,2009 3:27pm - MikeOv ""]
I don't detect any reminisence of the Skepticism sound, on The Divinity of Oceans. Musically, both bands conjure up transcendental atmospheres; that's the only point of comparison.
[Nov 14,2009 3:27pm - MikeOv ""]
reminiscence*
[Nov 14,2009 3:53pm - goatcatalyst ""]
great band!
[Nov 14,2009 8:31pm - quintessence ""]
Its pretty crazy the members came from such GAY goth metal projects like Midnattsol
[Nov 14,2009 8:35pm - quintessence ""]
Fixed download link. Buy it if you like it!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NONV4SPM
[Nov 14,2009 8:48pm - rotivore ""]
I dont care for Allah-core
[Dec 17,2010 12:20pm - BSV ""]
NICE. i watched an awesome doc on pbs about whaling called, into the deep. very cool. somebody book these guys in new bedford! absolutely killer band.
the 2nd album is about the Essex. it was a ship destroyed by a sperm whale in the west pacific, straight outta nantucket. the crew was stranded at sea for like 4 months i think. everyone ate each other to stay alive.
more euro bands in praise of american lit and social political historical culture plz.
[Dec 17,2010 12:22pm - arkquimanthorn ""]
wow, i had no idea.
[Dec 17,2010 12:42pm - Firelips NLI ""]
New Bedford was a very rich city 120 years ago
[Dec 17,2010 1:01pm - BSV ""]
one of the first cities with a public street light system, compliments of whale oil.