And it was their relentless, questing pursuit of excellence which inspired their finest artistic achievement. “Leviathan, the band’s second long-player, stands as both a conceptual piece themed around ...

Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick has inspired a lot of art over the decades: Two examples are Mastodon’s 2004 heavy metal classic Leviathan and, more recently, composer Jake Heggie’s ...