The Call of the Wretched Sea is the debut album by the German funeral doom band Ahab.

[1][4] It features slow synthesizer melodies, downtuned guitars, echoing percussion, and deep and guttural vocals.

The track "Old Thunder" features an orchestrated central portion as well as clean-droned baritones substituting the guttural vocals in some sections.

The Call of the Wretched Sea is a concept album which attempts to reinterpret Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick.

[4] The album tries to represent the feelings of foreboding as told through the story of the book's main character, the despotic Captain Ahab.