AHAB

Release Year: 2009
Artist Origin: GER
Style: melancholic dramatic funeral doom metal

inspired by the success of their engaging first opus, inventive Germans returned three years later with another heavyweight recording, pursuing a new ambitious goal to revive an authentic nineteenth century maritime story about a whale-sunk ship that later inspired the already interpreted Moby Dick, while sufficiently dramatic music remains monumentally dreamy yet bleak, adopting a somewhat softer, more melodic and clearer direction, with greater emphasis put on refined sound, atmospheric presentation and compositional dynamics, as heavy riffs rise and fall like waves, and vocals shift between deep, exhausted growls and epically inclined, almost choral intonations, further reinforcing the sense of isolation and fading hope