Ahab is a German funeral doom metal band founded in 2004 by Midnattsol guitarists Christian Hector and Daniel Droste.

[1] Near the end of 2004, with one song already written, Christian Hector and Daniel Droste decided to form a band and recorded their first single, The Stream.

Nearly a year and a half later, The Call of the Wretched Sea, the group's first full-length album was released on Napalm Records with the help of new band member Stephan Adolph and session drummer Cornelius Althammer.

In 2008, shortly after playing at the Summer Breeze Open Air metal festival in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, bassist Stephan Adolph left the band due to "personal differences."

Ahab released their most recent album, The Coral Tombs,[5] on Friday January the 13th 2023 and made the charts in the US,[6] this time taking their fans on a musical journey with Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax through the depths of the sea and the abysmal nature of mankind.