The Ichthyologist
by Giant Squid
- Type: Album
- Released: 3 February 2009
- Label: The End
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:03:48
- Community rating: 3.05/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Jomo Hankerson, Smokey, Playa, Ginuwine, Aaliyah, Barry Hankerson, Timbaland
Album Notes & Community Reviews
This ambitious concept album tells a surreal, apocalyptic nautical narrative, drawing deeply from marine biology. The band weaves progressive metal complexity with mournful cello lines, dual vocal harmonies, and dynamic post-rock crescendos. The sprawling, cinematic nature of the compositions solidified their distinct identity within the atmospheric sludge subgenre.
Genres
Descriptors: aquatic, atmospheric, conceptual, progressive
Tracklist
- Panthalassa (Lampetra tridentata) (05:50)
- La Brea Tar Pits (Psuedomonas putida) (07:28)
- Sutterville (Vibrio cholerae) (04:08)
- Dead Man Slough (Pacifastacus leniusculus) (05:31)
- Throwing A Donner Party At Sea (Physeter catadon) (05:40)
- Sevengill (Notorynchus cepedianus) (07:10)
- Mormon Island (Alluvial Au) (06:39)
- Blue Linckia (Linckia laevigata) (07:12)
- Emerald Bay (Prionace glauca) (06:11)
- Rubicon Wall (Acipenser transmontanus) (07:59)