2012 is fast becoming a banner year for doom metal. We’ve already heard Swallow the Sun’s exceptional Emerald Forest and the Blackbird and
newcomer Pallbearer’s breathtaking debut Sorrow
And Extinction, and Eagle Twin will soon release their eagerly anticipated
sophomore album The Feather Tipped the
Serpent’s Scale; those are just the first three that came to mind. I’m sure
there are countless other doom albums coming out, making 2012 the perfect year
to sit next to a rainy window with a record on the turntable and a glass of
scotch in hand, and contemplating the futility and misery of the human
existence. And now German funeral doom
masters Ahab have unleashed The Giant,
just to spite you and make you cry forlorn tears into your glass while you wait
for the Mayan gods to return and release us all into oblivion.
Grab some tissue and read on after the jump…
