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The Ocean Collective (usually referred to as "The Ocean") are an experimental metal band from Berlin, Germany. Their work
combines elements ofprogressivemetal with classical music and electronic soundscapes to create their aggressive post-metal
sound. The band often describes its sound as "ambientsoundtrack doomrock".
The Ocean was founded in 2000 by guitarist and songwriter Robin Staps. During the following two years, about 40 musicians
joined and left the band untilastable line-up was established. July 2002 saw The Ocean play their first concert at Berlin's now
defunct sem ...read more
The Ocean Collective (usually referred to as "The Ocean") are an experimental metal band from Berlin, Germany. Their work
combines elements ofprogressivemetal with classical music and electronic soundscapes to create their aggressive post-metal
sound. The band often describes its sound as "ambientsoundtrack doomrock".
The Ocean was founded in 2000 by guitarist and songwriter Robin Staps. During the following two years, about 40 musicians
joined and left the band untilastable line-up was established. July 2002 saw The Ocean play their first concert at Berlin's now
defunct semi-legal Eimer Club. Shortly after, the bandreleased their eponymous debut album featuring "Islands/Tides", a 30.
minute-long song that also constituted the substance of their early live shows.
After a brief tour with Swedish crust punk outfit Coma in early 2003, the band signed to Make My Day Records, which then
released "Fogdiver", an EPconsisting of five instrumental songs—despite the fact that on stage, at least two singers could be
found. Unlike its predecessor, this recording receivedconsiderable acclaim from critics throughout a variety of genres.
During winter and spring 2004, The Ocean recorded what was to become the material for their two following albums. The
calmer and more atmospherichalfof this recording session was released as "Fluxion" in August 2004; a joint effort of Make My
Day and Throne Records. While the fact that the band nowusedvocals on their recordings seemed to make the music more
accessible to some, it also caused many other critics to consider the album a step backwardsinterms of innovation and
originality. In interviews, the band would comment on this by pointing out the close-mindedness of some of the reviewers
andtheirsupposed inability to deal with the harshness and brutality the vocals now added to The Ocean's sound.
After signing to Metal Blade Records in summer 2005, all the remaining songs from the session were released as Aeolian. Since
"Fluxion" and "Aeolian" hadoriginally been planned as a double CD with a mellow and a brutal part — a plan that did not work
out — "Aeolian" came across as very different from itspredecessor. Unlike on previous albums, classical instruments and
electronic sounds were hardly used here, making the record sound rather minimalistic.But whereas "Fluxion" had featured only
one singer, seven of them could be found on "Aeolian", among them Nate Newton, Sean Ingram, and TomasHallbom, whose
names were also used extensively for the album's promotion campaign. According to the band, Meta's voice on "Fluxion" had
created amonotony that was to be avoided on "Aeolian". March 2006 saw the North American release of the album. Later that
year, a joint vinyl version of "Fluxion"and "Aeolian" was released by Throne Records, featuring three records in different
colors. Recently in late 2007, they released a new 2 disc album entitled"Precambrian". In April 2008, The Ocean embarked on
a year long tour through Europe and North America with bands like Intronaut, Opeth, and At TheGates. In April 2009 it was
announced that primary Precambrian vocalist, and full time touring member Mike Pilat was leaving the band for
personalreasonsand other commitments.
On November 17th, 2009, Robin Staps posted on The Ocean Collective website, that a replacement vocalist had been found,
named Loic Rossetti. Stapsalsocommented that The Ocean had been recording "feverishly" through 2009, and would be
releasing two albums in 2010, one in March, the other inSeptember. « hide |
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