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Ahab – The Giant

Ahab – The Giant . . . There was a time, not too long ago, when I felt that Germany’s Ahab could only truly release one album. Their debut The Call of the Wretched Sea served as such a complete translation of Melville’s Moby-Dick into the metal idiom (moreso than Mastodon’s earlier attempt, even) that I felt that the band could only ever hope to resonate through basing their music off of that novel. And, as with all bands that base their lyrics off of one thing, I expected Ahab to run out of steam after their [...]