NAPALM
These German ‘nautical doom’ obsessives had been rising in stature and greatness since 2006. With their latest concept album, based around Jules Verne’s subaquatic classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, they’d
spent eight years honing a masterwork that is the very definition of immersive (or should that be ‘submersive’?). Agripping artistic achievement, bringing atmospheric post-rock textures, emotional nuances and dark jazz inflections to bear on their progressive death-doom fundamentals, Ahab reached their tempestuous apotheosis aboard Captain Nemo’s Nautilus.