AHAB - Guitars On New Album "A Bit Like DEVIN TOWNSEND Going Funeral Doom"
February 3, 2009, 15 years ago
German doom metal act AHAB, featuring MIDNATTSOL guitarist Daniel Droste on guitar/vocals and ex-Midnattsol guitarist Christian Hector, have issued the following update:
"Ahoi seamen, This friday Christian Hector will enter the studio. Sound engineer Cornelius Althammer - also the drummer for Ahab - will record the first guitar takes. The guitar lines, mostly written by Daniel Droste this time, are a bit more complex, yet in a funeral doom and death doom style."Hector comments: "It sounds a bit like a mixture of the 'good ole' Ahab style mixed with very atmospheric tunes. So the description of Ahab as it's posted on doom-metal.com as a 'riffing funeral doom band' still is valid. You may say there are riffs, that sound a bit like Devin Townsend going Funeral Doom, CARCASS in slomo or MORBID ANGEL going beyond the slowness of 'Blessed Are The Sick'. Still to some extent the influence of our colleague of TYRANNY can still be heard in some few riffs. So most of the music stays the same as you know it, although there are some hints to postcore and classical doom as well. It also maybe said that the songs are much more epic and vast. I think the new riffs fit perfectly to tell the story of the wreckage of the Essex! So Daniel made it quite easy for me to fit the lyrics to the music! The next to be recording will be our bassplayer Stephan 'Norz' Wandernoth. His bass lines also will be more sophisticated than those on The Call Of The Wretched Sea.
This was The Captain speaking."
Cheerio,
Ahab
(Photo by Carl Begai)
