The Ocean debut Parabiosis

2023-02-17 by Fernando Alves STAFF | 20 Comments
German collective The Ocean debuted a music video for the new song 'Parabiosis', taken from the band's upcoming ninth studio album, Holocene, out May 19th via Pelagic Records. You can watch it below.


Director/Director of Photography: Drew Storcks

Band comments: "Filmed on tour in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, the track itself is about stem cell research and the cosmetics industry's war against aging and our society's quest for rejuvenation elixirs, plastic surgery etc, which leads to the question of— how far can and shall we go regarding bio-engineering and medicinal progress?

The cult of eternal youth has lead to death being hidden from our everyday lives. You literally see no old people in our modern inner cities anymore, everyone is young and healthy and the sick and dying are locked away in clinics and retirement homes where they won’t remind the general public of the fact that we are all going to die one day, which keeps us stuck on a hamster wheel of spending the time of our lives working jobs we hate to afford things we don’t need…"

Tracklist:
1. Preboreal
2. Boreal
3. Sea of Reeds
4. Atlantic
5. Subboreal
6. Unconformities
7. Parabiosis
8. Subatlantic

Pre-order at: https://listen.pelagic-records.com/theocean-holocene

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insomniac15
Staff Reviewer
February 17th 2023
6178 Comments


This will be an interesting listen with the more electronic approach, but I'm happy to see them exploring new sounds.

botb
February 17th 2023
17800 Comments


So fucking cool to see my dude Drew’s name on this. Awesome guy, check his band Shy, Low, also on Pelagiac.

Flugmorph
February 17th 2023
34074 Comments


freakin amazing song and music video is a nice visualisation of the theme, very clean.

XfingTheSullen
February 17th 2023
5231 Comments


I really like the themes of the song too, since I'm personally very interested in radical life extension

OverSlyZed91
February 17th 2023
342 Comments


Choruses ! Where are da choruses?

Ectier
February 17th 2023
2583 Comments


Really loving this to be honest. Maybe its just because its more of the Ocean. This record may not be as heavy but that ties in more to the concept they are going for.

Ectier
February 17th 2023
2583 Comments


Really loving this to be honest. Maybe its just because its more of the Ocean. This record may not be as heavy but that ties in more to the concept they are going for. Also ive hit 1000 comments so thats neat

AeniasGaming
February 18th 2023
325 Comments


I was hesitant after hearing Preboreal but this really sold me on the new album

Flugmorph
February 18th 2023
34074 Comments


Really loving this to be honest.


Beardog
February 18th 2023
5185 Comments


Really loving this to be honest.

xlev
February 18th 2023
57 Comments


Songs have big Heliocentric/Anthropocentric vibes, for better or worse if you're into that era of the Ocean.

Ectier
February 19th 2023
2583 Comments


I think this will be a bit better than Helio/anthro now that Loic has settled into the band. Not that those albums are bad per just not the usual level from The Ocean you expect. I hope that once they finish the Epoch series they will move into heavier areas again with Loic using his full vocal range, particularly the black metal esque side of it from Pleitoscene

Jimbly
February 19th 2023
34 Comments


Getting an Oceansize vibe "One Day All This Will be Yours". Looking forward to this.

g40st
February 20th 2023
917 Comments


I've never listened lyrically to this band in any meaningful way, but weren't they super we are our own humanity god is not real and now, per the paragraph writeup (have yet to listen) acting Pikachu shocked that humanity wishes to achieve immortality or at the least radically extended lifespans?

Seems odd.

Were you of the former mind, you'd think you'd be supportive of the latter (I fit both personally).

Confessed2005
February 23rd 2023
5561 Comments


Band have some impressive releases so this should be good.

botb
February 23rd 2023
17800 Comments


Real talk, this band’s cleans have always bothered me except on the very earliest stuff… but I really like this track a lot. Keen to check the album.

CynicalComplex
March 19th 2023
120 Comments


@g40st

I personally don't think the track is anti-science so much as it's anti-commercialism if you read Staps's comments (he made similar overtures all the way back on Precambrian with Eoarchean).

His lyrics are interesting (Pelagial's are probably the best IMO) but one should always keep in mind he's a bit of a Nietzsche fanboy, sometimes to excess. He's always quick to point out a problem and never really willing to provide a concrete solution, which for me is whatever; the music slaps.

Ectier
March 19th 2023
2583 Comments


Honestly this has become one of my fav songs of the year so far

Flugmorph
March 19th 2023
34074 Comments


same fam

Ectier
March 19th 2023
2583 Comments


Im really keen for the record to drop. Ill be quite fine with Loic using more cleans for this record. His feature on Prison of Mind by Lost in Kieve is amazing. As long as Loic uses his full vocal range on a future record and or project. Thinking on it there could be a full on industrial esque heavy as shit track on new one with the concept



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