The Giant

by Ahab

The Giant cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 May 2012
  • Label: Napalm
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:12:05
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Stephan Wandernoth, Cornelius Althammer, Herbrand Larsen, Peter Eifflaender

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing their thematic devotion to nautical literature, the German doom pioneers based this concept album on Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'. The band significantly refined their crushing funeral doom template by incorporating pronounced clean vocals and expansive post-metal textures. This artistic evolution brought an unprecedented level of melancholy and progressive nuance to their notoriously bleak sound.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, conceptual, progressive, aquatic, slow

Tracklist

  1. Further South (8:55)
  2. Aeons Elapse (12:44)
  3. Deliverance (Shouting at the Dead) (7:52)
  4. Antarctica the Polymorphess (11:45)
  5. Fathoms Deep Below (9:07)
  6. The Giant (10:36)
  7. Time's Like Molten Lead - Bonus Track (11:02)

Credits

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