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8 days and 2 hours left boys, just keeping everyone on the track. Taking bets, LP, EP or yet another band history documentary

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I bet it's another cover

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We will release our new, 10th studio album „Holocene“ on May 19.

Despite a heavy year of touring, we found the time to complete our new album and after a long odyssey of getting it mixed & mastered (which we will tell you all about when the time comes), we couldn’t be more happy with it. Holocene adds a closing chapter to our palaeontology-inspired album series, and presents a gear shift towards electronic realms while exploring new depths of heaviness at the same time.

Phanerozoic II ended with a track titled “Holocene”, and that was pointing in the direction of things to come, both conceptually and musically. The track Holocene ends abruptly and yet connects seamlessly with the beginning of the new album, the synths of opener “Preboreal”, which we released as the first single off the album 2 weeks ago. This is only the very beginning of a journey which once more will end in a very different place than where it began...

'Holocene' is an appendix to the 2 Phanerozoic albums and Precambrian, or the final and concluding chapter, making it a quadrilogy if you want so. It’s tackling the Holocene epoch, which is the current and shortest chapter in earth’s history, but it is essentially an album about the angst, alienation, loss of reason and critical thinking, rise of conspiracy theories and deconstruction of values in the modern age.

While creeping deeper into our own musical DNA, we have made an album that came out more intimate and captivating than previous ones. An album with which we challenged our writing routine, an album that we didn’t foresee coming, but one that we are immensely proud of. We can't wait to share it with you.

Preorder starts February 14th via Pelagic Records

More details here: https://www.theoceancollective.com

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"an album about the angst, alienation, loss of reason and critical thinking, rise of conspiracy theories and deconstruction of values in the modern age"

boo you already did two albums on this, I want to hear literal caveman riffs

Album Rating: 4.4

Am skeptical, but intrigued. Which was about what I felt about this album lol, so business as usual.

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More ocean is always good

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Unless your house is on the coast

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Or you cant swim

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Krill knows.

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new track

https://youtu.be/Ia3n0m2QKXI

Album Rating: 4.5

Really enjoy the new direction. Only wish it had a little more grand climax but love the production and soundscape of it.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah production is killer. Sounds like a 'The Ocean' song though, don't really see anything special. But that is not a bad thing at all since their music is quite diverse anyway

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Song is pretty decent itself, but yeah boys, production is probably the best we've seen from them.

Yeah im totally hyped for the album

Album Rating: 4.4

Not sure how I feel about this pivot, feels like it's missing... quite a lot.

Album Rating: 4.5

First impression is quite good. Should have uses this one as the first single

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on a side note, Peter (synth man) Voigtmann played Holocene live and he was fucking good. Like this band has legitimate two top tier drummers lol

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The result is an eclectic album showcasing a palette of sounds that is wider than ever in the history of the collective, an album that hails the riff and Reznor-style bit-crushed vocal extravaganza as much as it bows to Radiohead, as in the stunning 3rd track “Sea of Reeds” with the album’s strongest vocal hookline – or early 2000’s trip hop, such as in” Atantic” and “Subatlantic”. The Massive Attack influence is quite obvious and makes more sense than you would have ever guessed within the context of this band.



“We’re all huge fans of Mezzanine, which is still one of the best-produced albums to date, it has aged incredibly well”, says synth wizzard Voigtmann. “And for me it is an immensely heavy album too, a different kind of heaviness, but one that somehow connects logically with what we’ve been doing with The Ocean over the course of the past 2 albums.”



While Staps took Voigtmann’s initial ideas and “oceanized” them as he says, Voigtmann still pursued his own vision of these ideas, entirely without guitars. This resulted in an ambient electronic parallel album under his alter ego SHRVL, titled “Limbus”. A part of the ltd. Holocene 4LP boxset which also includes the vocal and instrumental versions of the Holocene album and an extra 10” vinyl EP, Voigtmann’s solo album offers an intriguing alternative view on some of the musical ideas of Holocene, and a deep insight into his creative mind.



yessss give me this baby, shit. I know I will love this disc already.



I came just to say I never noticed how good was their synth/noise guy, he was missing from the tour when they came last year and he was back in the roster touring with Karnivool. sound was something else completely, happy to see him get more influence on this disc.

Album Rating: 4.5

Ah didn't notice it was Peter that took over the drums. Was cool to hear Paul singing as well.

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the sound of this is indeed fucking amazing

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they picked the best songs for singles the last two times out so I'm mildly concerned that Parabiosis doesn't have the explosiveness of Jurassic or the payoff of Permian, but it's aight