Review Summary: Giving some light to unheard perspectives
In 2009 when this album came out Ahab already had a good track record with their previous effort "The Call of the Wretched Sea" a truly special experience with it's heavy atmosphere and it's times of bleak beauty and chaotic but droning destruction, a perfect adaptation of the classic story "Moby Dick" to music. Next up was the record "The Divinity of Oceans" which I believe is an extremely underrated release and with this review I hope to open your mind to some of the deeper layers you may have not noticed in your initial listens.
Strategy number one for this group for this release was to build on the musical ideals of the previous record, but to add new "depths" and layers. The first thing that I personally noticed about this release was it's relation to the polyphonic era of medieval classical music with Daniel Droste's beautiful consonant legato filled vocal harmonies over the calm/or on the weight of what was dismal and dissonant sonic aggression. To me, these sections along with the correspondence of the album cover (filled with dead bodies and evident plebeian pain on a ship) was a great representation of the dark ages with the rising prospect of the age of discovery, beautiful archaic vocal lines over what was disgusting and brooding music.
All in all, this album was yet another perfect and imaginative adaptation of a classical story/time of history, taking in mind the clashing variables of the story, musically recreating that with disgusting heaviness and great atmosphere.
