Ahab
The Giant
Napalm (2012)
German titans Ahab and their deep love affair with the sea began with 2005 demo The Oath and continued into their debut The Call of the Wretched Sea in 2006. Self proclaimed as Nautik funeral doom due to this affection for the ocean, Ahab began a journey into the fathomless depths of emotion and despair. Basing their works on Moby Dick in the past, The Giant is a concept founded on Edgar Allen Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The story told of the eponymous “hero” Pym and his adventures and life as a stowaway aboard a ship before being rescued by the crew of the Jane Guy after his time on board the Grampus was fraught with mutiny, terror and cannibalism. The Giant attempts to put this sequence of events to crushing funereal doom and weaves a tale of melancholy beauty and bittersweet heartbreak. Arthur Gordon Pym encountered many a new experience on his voyage and the labyrinthine account of Poe’s only complete novel is wrought with hardship, madness and tragedy. Ahab’s style of funeral doom is not as intensely slow and abyssal as Skepticism or Mournful Congregation and the band have begun to focus on … Read more
Lions Lions
To Carve Our Names
Hollywood Waste (2012)
Lions Lions are a band you should be listening to, but probably aren’t. Regardless of the years spent developing in … Read more
State Lines
Self Titled
Tiny Engines (2012)
Hailing from Long Island, NY, State Lines come from a long list of notable punk bands who call the area … Read more
