Ahab (band)
| Ahab | |
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 Ahab at the Rockharz Open Air 2018 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Funeral doom |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | www.ahab-doom.de |
| Founding members | |
| Christian Hector | |
| Daniel Droste | |
| Current occupation | |
guitar |
Christian R. Hector |
Vocals, guitar, keyboard |
Daniel Droste |
| Stephan Wanderoth | |
| Cornelius Althammer | |
| former members | |
Bass, backing vocals
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Stephan Adolph |
Ahab is a German Funeral Doom Metal band that was founded in Mosbach at the end of 2004 by the two Midnattsol guitarists Christian Hector and Daniel Droste.
Band history
Ahab was founded in late 2004. The first recordings were made by Stephan Adolph, who became an integral part of the band at the end of 2005.
In 2006 the band performed at Doom Shall Rise , among others , before the first album The Call of the Wretched Sea , a concept album based on Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, was released on Napalm Records in the same year . On this album Cornelius Althammer (previously with the brutal death metal band Mortified ) played the drums. At a gig in Oslo , Christian Hector and Daniel Droste decided to integrate the drummer as a permanent member of the band.
In 2008 they played at the Summer Breeze Festival and parted company shortly afterwards due to personal differences from Stephan Adolph. The new bass player was Stephan Wanderoth from the tech death band Dead Eyed Sleeper , in which Cornelius Althammer also plays.
In the summer of 2009, the album The Divinity of Oceans was released , which musically interprets the story of the whaling sailing ship Essex , whose true story was the historical template for Melville's novel Moby Dick . The sources used were the books by Nathaniel Philbrick ( In the Heart of the Sea: The Whaler's Last Voyage Essex ) and Owen Chase ( The Fall of Essex ).
In 2010 and 2011 the band played two tours - among others with Dornenreich and The Vision Bleak - and was a guest at various festivals in Europe and North America.
From mid-2011 the four musicians worked on their album The Giant , which is once again a concept album. Thematically, it is based on Edgar Allan Poe's only novel The Report by Arthur Gordon Pym , in which the story of a shipwrecked sea voyage is again told. The album was recorded at the end of January 2012. Ahab had decided to record it live in an analog studio. The Giant was finally released on May 25, 2012 via Napalm Records and promoted with a headlining tour through Central Europe - supported by Ophis and Esoteric . The Divinity of Mountains tour through Germany and Switzerland with Omega Massif and Valborg followed in October 2013 .
On August 27, 2015, the band's fourth studio album, The Boats of the Glen Carrig, was released, which is based on the horror novel of the same name by William Hope Hodgson and tells an eerie sea story.
Discography
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- 2005: The Oath (demo; 2007 limited vinyl re-release)
- 2006: The Call of the Wretched Sea (2007 limited vinyl re-release)
- 2009: The Divinity of Oceans
- 2012: The Giant
- 2015: The Boats of the Glenn Carrig
- 2020: Live Prey (Live)
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- Ahab, line-up at Rockharz Open Air 2018
Guitarist Christian R. Hector
Singer Daniel Droste
Session bassist Christian Degen
Drummer Cornelius Althammer
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- ↑ https://www.rockhard.de/megazine/reviewarchiv/review-angebote/24358-the-divinity-of-oceans.html
- ↑ Ahab in the German charts