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

yeah, I've heard of these guys. good listen imo.

better than i thought

cool stuff

Ahab is my gateway into Funeral Doom.

Bump.

I like how the cover art is the same painting of Mastadon's album "leviathan".

Mastadon already did the moby dick thing.

y_ddraig_goch said:

fix'd

hahah you are right, but they still did it.

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

ConquerTheBaphomet said:

next you should look into Evoken and Disembowelment.

yeah I know it's not their cover art, I have the edition that has that painting as the cover.

Listening to Ahab right now (not for the first time lul). This is the best band ever.
Nothing is more brutal.

yeah i picked up The Call of the Wretched Sea, awesome shit.

Below the Sun is fucking AMAZING.

this is awesome, so evil and brooding

Moby-Dick is amazing. Did you read it?

I also always liked "Bartleby the Scrivener."

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.

no Ahab is German, the guy from Catacombs lives in Arizona.

Really? why did I think they were the same guy. Oh well its all good.

haha yeah either way its raging epic doom.

FUNERAL DOOM

wow Catacombs is great

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

Been listening to this band recently. So good. I love it!

Simpsons did it.

New album sounds insane. Two new tracks up on myspace are ridiculously epic.
http://www.myspace.com/ahabdoom

still about moby dick?

They've retained the nautical theme. Sounds like they stepped up the production, the same way Esoteric eventually did.

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

Short review:

Skepticism with more noodling, Esoteric with more hope.

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.

reminiscence*

great band!

Its pretty crazy the members came from such GAY goth metal projects like Midnattsol

Fixed download link. Buy it if you like it!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NONV4SPM

I dont care for Allah-core

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.

wow, i had no idea.

New Bedford was a very rich city 120 years ago

one of the first cities with a public street light system, compliments of whale oil.