Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans (2009)^{Release ID: 6531}

Ahab's second album and follow-up to Call of the Wretched Sea is not as relentlessly crushing as that monstrous classic of funeral doom, the atmosphere relieved by passages of lightness with cleaner vocals and softer acoustic sections and although I understand the band's wish to develop, for me, this is a step down from the debut and a dilution of their sound. Don't misunderstand, this is a very good album and when the band do lay on the heavy funereal dirges, then they are still able to crush the air from your chest with a mountain of sound, it's just that I wanted more of that!