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There are at least six artists named Ahab; 1) Ahab is a German funeral doom metal band founded in 2004 by Midnattsol guitarists Christian Hector and Daniel Droste. The band is named after Captain Ahab, a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Along with its name, the band also draws thematic and lyrical inspiration from Moby-Dick; some songs even feature direct quotations from the book. Near the end of 2004, with one song already written, Christian Hector and Daniel Droste decided to form a band and recorded their first single, The Stream. On 15 April 2005, after several months of rehearsing, the band's first demo, The Oath, was released. The demo was limited to 30 hand-numbered copies and contained the band's first song, The Stream, as well as two new songs and an outro track. Nearly a year and a half later, The Call of the Wretched Sea, the group's first full-length album was released on Napalm Records with the help of Stephan Adolph and session drummer Cornelius Althammer. After the release of The Call of the Wretched Sea, the band played some few gigs in Europe. In 2008, shortly after playing at the Summer Breeze Open Air metal festival in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, bassist Stephan Adolph left the band due to personal differences. He was quickly replaced by Stephan Wandernoth, a member of the band Dead Eyed Sleeper to which the drummer, Cornelius, also belongs. The band's next album The Divinity of Oceans was released in July 2009. In April 2012, Ahab ...

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• Below the Sun
  Below the Sun
• Old Thunder
  Old Thunder
• The Pacific
  The Pacific
• The Hunt
  The Hunt
• The Sermon
  The Sermon
• Ahab's Oath
  Ahab's Oath
• Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
  Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
• The Divinity of Oceans
  The Divinity of Oceans
• Yet Another Raft of the Medusa (Pollard's Weakness)
  Yet Another Raft of the Medusa (Pollard's Weakness)
• O Father Sea
  O Father Sea
• Redemption Lost
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• Tombstone Carousal
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• Gnawing Bones (Coffin's Lot)
  Gnawing Bones (Coffin's Lot)
• Nickerson's Theme
  Nickerson's Theme
• Further South
  Further South
• Aeons Elapse
  Aeons Elapse
• The Giant
  The Giant
• Fathoms Deep Below
  Fathoms Deep Below
• Antarctica The Polymorphess
  Antarctica The Polymorphess
• Deliverance (Shouting At The Dead)
  Deliverance (Shouting At The Dead)
• The Stream
  The Stream
• The Isle
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• Time's Like Molten Lead
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• The Thing That Made Search
  The Thing That Made Search
• Deliverance
  Deliverance
• Outro
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• Like Red Foam (The Great Storm)
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• The Weedmen
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• To Mourn Job
  To Mourn Job
• Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales (Interludium)
  Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales (Interludium)
• Antarctica (The Polymorphess)
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• Run Me Down
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• Tombstone Carousal (Doomster74)
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• Red Foam (The Great Storm)
  Red Foam (The Great Storm)
• Ahab´s Oath
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• Rosebud
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• The Light in the Weed (Mary Madison) (Bonus Track)
  The Light in the Weed (Mary Madison) (Bonus Track)
• Of The Monstrous Pictures Of The Whales (Instrumental)
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• The Light In The Weed (Mary Madison) [Bonus Track]
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• The Light in the Weed (Mary Madison)
  The Light in the Weed (Mary Madison)
• Wish You
  Wish You
• Joanna
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• Of The Monstrous Pictures Of Whales - Interludium
  Of The Monstrous Pictures Of Whales - Interludium
• Call A Waiter
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• Like Roses
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• To The Light
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• Lucy
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• Deliverance - Shouting At The Dead
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• Lightnin' Bug
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