THE OCEAN ARE IN THE STUDIO. TOO SOON TO START ASSEMBLING THOSE “BEST OF 2010″ LISTS?
Monday, October 5th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Vince Neilstein
I’ve always found the changing of bands’ MySpace names to be an amusing but effective way of communicating a simple bit of news. For example:
- “LAKE BUKKAKE (ON TOUR NOW!!!)”
- “ANAL CHAINSAW (NEW ALBUM OUT THIS TUESDAY!!!)”
Exclamation points necessarily included.
So it with great excitement and wonder that MS Maniac Mark Moritz-Rabson noticed a recent change in the MySpace moniker of German awesome-core collective The Ocean: “THE OCEAN (in the studio)”. No exclamation points needed because The Ocean are way too cool for such shenanigans.
2007’s year-end release Precambrian quite literally blew our minds when it came out, as did their incredibly powerful live show in NYC mid-2008 (at which we interviewed guitarist and band mastermind Robin Staps). Metal Blade re-released the band’s 2004 effort Fluxion earlier this year, a decision which at least in the case of this writer served its purpose of educating new Ocean fans on what they might’ve missed in the past. But at least for U.S. fans it’s been pretty quiet on The Ocean shorefront (ha) and a new album would really hit the spot for early or mid 2010.
Of course, “in the studio” is no simple undertaking for The Ocean; Precambrian was an ambitious two-disc affair which included the performance of a real, live symphony. And it was all flawlessly executed. If not for my ignorance of Precambrian until January 2008, it certainly would’ve ended up in my 2007 Top Ten list. Staps is a meticulous master composer, and I’d expect nothing less than an ambitious, nuanced follow-up.
So, in conclusion: get those bongs ready.
-VN
Excellent news. Aeolian is one of the most listened-to albums in my collection
I’m hoping it’ll be good, but since Mike Pilat – vocalist (think that’s his name) left, im not sure if they’ll get a good replacement. That guy was a monster!
ohh myyy godddd (so excited)
I need to hear this. The Ocean are soooo fucking overlooked.
Wow, nice to hear that. When they played in Macedonia my band was opening act for them.
They put one hell of a live show, with those perfectly synchronized lights and music… awesome
What’s this about Oceano?
Oh, you!
i love this band…
Precambrian was and is one of the best metal albums ever. New The Ocean = WIN.
Precambrian was amazing, I can’t wait for this one
Boners!!
Glad I could alert some fellow Ocean-lovers to this bit of news, I’m as excited as all of you.
No waaaay!! is LAKE BUKKAKE really on tour!?! fuck ya! and some new ANAL CHAINSAW, too? shit fountain yea!!!! cant wait til this tuesday.