Warthur
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" is another Ahab album which, true to their name, draws inspiration from a seafaring novel - in this case, a horror story by William Hope Hodgson, whose death in World War I robbed the world of one of the more bizarre imaginations working in genre fiction at that time.
Since their funeral doom-oriented debut, Ahab had apparently transitioned into a death-doom style, which here is set against quieter, more reflective moments in which the harsh, metal-oriented riffs stop - a sort of blend of death-doom and progressive rock ideas which could see the band eventually evolving in an Opeth-like direction if they chose to plot that course. Here, these interludes offer just enough variety to avoid the album becoming tedious.
