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Berlin, Germany (2000 – present)

The Ocean is an experimental metal band from Berlin, Germany. Their work combines elements of progressive metal and electronic soundscapes, occasionally incorporating strings to create their aggressive post-metal sound. The band often describes its sound as “ambient soundtrack 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 until a stable 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 band released 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 EP consisting of five instrumental songs—despite the fact that on stage, at least two singers could be found. Unlike its predecessor, this recording received considerable 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 atmospheric half of 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 now used vocals on their recordings seemed to make the music more accessible to some, it also caused many other critics to consider the album a step backwards in terms of innovation and originality.
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  • Trytakeit

    любов

    yesterday evening

  • heatBreath

    arguing that any ocean release is better or worse than any other is fucking lols.

    yesterday afternoon

  • Goldmember1213

    Listening to Precambrian for the first time in a couple years and it's definitely as good as I remember. Fucking masterpiece

    Tuesday afternoon

  • evanisevil

    Except, you know, it is. The first The Ocean album to feature a song not written by Robin Staps was Anthropo, and even then it was only 3 songs written by someone else (I assume Jonah).

    Sunday morning

  • SiikTh

    "It's still the same songwriter" is what i was getting at. it's not.

    Saturday evening

  • evanisevil

    Yeah, Helio was by no means as good as their other releases, IMO, but Staps was obviously looking to go for a new sound and not rewrite Precambrian; hitting a few bumps in the road was to be expected. Still, it's far from a poor or even below average release. @SiiKth: where does it say because a band changes sound one cannot like both iterations? What a ridiculous, ignorant, pretentious comment. It's still the same songwriter and the approach and mannerisms are still there, just towards a different sound.

    Saturday morning

  • Asteh

    I do like a Heliocentric more than Anthropocentric. Heliocentric has Firmament, The First Commandment of the Luminaries, The Origin of Species and The Origin of God which are awesome, plus the other songs are good too, like Swallowed by the Earth. On Anthropocentric I can't really find anything too awesome... I mean The Grand Inquisitor I & II are quite good but overall... meh. Precambrian is the best, though. :-)

    Friday morning

  • xVictimOfADownx

    When a band has influences from sludge, punk, metalcore, classical, with some middle eastern and jazz elements, it's hard not to see the band experiment with cleaner stuff like on Heliocentric, though I think it could have been executed better. Anthropocentric is really good though [2] I agree, i'm pretty sure they can refine that quality in their music if they want to.

    last week
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THE OCEAN is working on new material

2 Aug 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/THE OCEAN

After 2 weeks of creative isolation at the new Oceanland on the Spanish coast, there are about 25 minutes of new material written and pre-produced which are basically one continuous piece …

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