REMEDYING A GREAT INJUSTICE

Suckalo Alex_P sent us an email a few days ago whilst procrastinating on a “massive fucking French project” that supposedly will determine whether or not he graduates. Thank you, Alex, for reading our site instead of hitting those books hard and ensuring you complete your education. We know you’ll really appreciate those extra student loans you’ll need to take out when you have to go back to school for another semester.

But Alex was emailing us with good reason, to “remedy an injustice,” namely that we’d never posted about the “phenomenal German funeral doom band Ahab.” And he’s right; we haven’t. For some reason I thought that Ahab were more beardy/crusty Remission/Leviathan-era Mastodon imitators. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of those things, but I think we can all agree there’s a whole lot of those bands flooding the market right now, nahmean? It’s not hard to see why I thought this, though; the Mastodon song “I am Ahab” (duh).

But I couldn’t have been more wrong. I’m sitting here listening to Ahab and realizing that Alex’s description of Ahab as “phenomenal German funeral doom” is right on the money. This is giant, thunderous guitar music for dark, depressed, gloomy times. If Gojira are “elephants marching,” as Axl always likes to say, then that would make Ahab giant fucking Brontosauruses marching… or something.

Of course, if the rain was photoshopped into the above promo picture then I take back everything I just said.

-VN