Genre: Funeral Doom
Year Released: 2006
Label: Napalm Records
Tracklisting/Song Length:
1. Below The Sun (11:45)
2. The Pacific (10:07)
3. Old Thunder (9:55)
4. Of The Monsterous Pictures Of Whales (1:52)
5. The Sermon (12:36)
6. The Hunt (11:13)
7. Ahab's Path (10:09)
Review:
This is one epic mofo of an album. 7 songs stretching over an hour long of incredible and just plain out mind blowing Funeral Doom. This is the type of music that makes Black Sabbath look like Regurgitate in comparison, and while that may draw most away from this album what it leaves us with are the insane, extreme metalheads up for anything! This is one behemoth of an album, and the music can literally conjure up images of a dark a brooding ocean. \
The guitars here are GREAT. Very slow, crunchy and very well played. The lead riffs/solos/whatever the fuck they are kick so much ass and are genuinely brimming with dark, twisted emotion. This is music that Moby Dick himself would rock the fuck out to. The soul-wrenching guitars really make this album a historical piece of metal and may god damn us all straight the fuck to hell, this may be the album that puts Funeral Doom as a household name (among metalheads at least). It is really that good, that influential and that mesmerizing.
The drums are fucking brilliant, for something going at the speed that they are (near nil) Ahab's drummer manages to pull off some very nice drum beats. The cymbal work throughout the album is nothing short on unholy in itself. The beats are slow and steady. The cymbals sound akin to giant waves crashing against rock. The very tap of the snare drum sends shivers up my spine as it sucks us into a world of black waters and a mysterious, monstrous behemoth watching and following every move.
The vocals, holy shit. The vocals are mind numbingly deep. They are terrifying and demonic, the mere growl is like a kick in the balls, hard, violent and devastating. They bring the listener into fathomless depths near the ocean floor, in the pitch black. And they leave you there, struggling to understand what just happened to yourself. The chanting, hypnotizing vocals that rear their heads every now and then are slow, haunting and mournful.
This is a MUST have album. I don't care what you have to do to get this album, this fact is, you need it to live. This is one brutally devastating and epicly haunting piece of work that I don't even think I describe this any longer.
A MUST HAVE!
Final Rating:
5/5
(they don't happen very often)
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