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Ahab @ ArcTanGent 2025 - Photo by Abbi Draper

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ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Saturday

29th January 202629th January 2026 Tim C Ahab, ArcTanGent Festival, Between The Buried And Me, Bipolar Architecture, Clown Core, DVNE, God Is An Astronaut, Inter Arma, Lo!, Rolo Tomassi, Sugar Horse, Swamp Coffin, The Callous Daoboys, Wren

King Offa of Mercia ruled his Anglo-Saxon kingdom between 757 and 796. Around the middle of his reign, he ordered

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Top Ten Of 2023: David J McLaren

3rd January 20243rd January 2024 David J McLaren Ahab, Godthrymm, Khan, Narrow Head, Oceanlord, Paradise Lost, Peter Gabriel, Prong, Svalbard, Top Ten 2023, Wodorost

Life continues to get busier and busier, which means that inevitably more and more new music passes me by as

Ahab 'The Coral Tombs'

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Review: Ahab ‘The Coral Tombs’

17th January 20238th March 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ahab, Doom, Napalm Records

Herman Melville’s epic classic Moby Dick is an often terrifying story that takes the backdrop of the nineteenth-century Nantucket whaling

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Top 10 Albums Of 2015 By Guido Segers

23rd December 20152nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2015 Year Review, Ahab, Article, Enslaved, Guido Segers, King Dude, Kontinuum, Mgla, My Sleeping Karma, Panopticon, Tau Cross, Terzij De Horde, The Fifth Alliance

What a year, some amazing editions of great festivals, good releases and overall an intriguing time to live and enjoy

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AHAB: Guido Segers Interviews Drummer Cornelius Althammer From The Funeral Doom Instigators

17th October 20157th September 2019 Guido Segers Ahab, Cornelius Althammer, Guido Segers, Interview, Napalm Records, The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

We at the Sleeping Shaman like ourselves a nice slice of doom now and then and who better to provide

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AHAB ‘The Boats Of The Glen Carrig’ CD/LP/DD 2015

6th September 20152nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2015, Ahab, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Funeral Doom, Guido Segers, Heavy, LP, Napalm Records, Review, The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

The nautical lords of doom have returned with another aquatic album filled with masterful music. Taking the time to let

Damnation Festival 2014: 5 New Acts Confirmed Including AHAB, HARK & BAST

26th June 2014 Lee Edwards Ahab, Atlantis, Bast, Damnation Festival, Damnation Festival 2014, HARK, Leeds University, News, Sólstafir

German doom titans, AHAB, and Icelandic progressive metal outfit, SÓLSTAFIR, are the latest names to be added to the tenth

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Premiere: Witchthroat Serpent ‘Silver Bell Of Satanic Ritual’ – New Album Lands 9th October

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French occult stoner doom purveyors Witchthroat Serpent are back to cast another dark spell across the underground metal landscape. Emerging

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Premiere: Goat Major ‘Under The Moonlight’ – New Album ‘Death Comes Twice’ Lands 23rd October

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Premiere: Nephila ‘Living Grave’ – New Album ‘Huldra’ Drops 28th August

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Video Premiere: hijss ‘s.w.a.n.’ – New Album Drops 18th September Via Heavy Psych Sounds

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