The ocean

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The ocean
The Ocean at the Bergmal Festival October 28, 2017 in Zurich
The Ocean at the Bergmal Festival October 28, 2017 in Zurich
General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) Post-Metal , Alternative Metal , Progressive Metal
founding 2000
Website www.theoceancollective.com
Current occupation
Guitar, vocals, samples
 Robin staps
singing
 Loïc Rossetti
guitar
 David Ramis Åhlfeldt
bass
 Mattias Hägerstrand
Drums
 Paul Seidel
synthesizer
 Peter Voigtmann
former members
cello
 Rebekka Mahnke
Drums, percussion
 Torge Liessmann
bass
 Jonathan Heine
bass
 Gordon Hunies
guitar
 Andreas Hillebrand
singing
 Sean Ingram
singing
 Ercüment Kasalar
singing
 Carsten Albrecht
singing
 Markus Gundall
violin
 Demeter Braun
singing
 Nico Webers
guitar
 Matt Beels
guitar
 Walid Farruque
Bass, vocals
 Mike Pilat
bass
 Hannes Huefken
cello
 Stefan Heinemeyer
violin
 Karina Suslov
violin
 Christoph von der Nahmer
piano
 Katharina Sellheim
saxophone
 John Gürtler
Carillon
 Daniel Eichholz
Tambourine
 Jonas Olsson
Samples
 Tomas Svensson
singing
 Rene Nocon
singing
 Nate Newton
singing
 Tomas Hellion
singing
 Jan Oberg
singing
 Caleb Scofield
singing
 Eric Kalsbeek
singing
 Jason Emry
singing
 Meta
Percussion (live)
 Gerd Kornmann
Visualization (live)
 Nils Lindenhayn
bass
 Louis Jucker
Drums
 Luc Hess
guitar
 Jonah Nido
bass
 Christian Breuer
guitar
 Damian Murdoch

The Ocean , also known as "The Ocean Collective" is a post-metal - band from Berlin . She builds elements of progressive metal and classical music into her pieces, the band is often also classified as sludge or post-metal.

history

In the early winter of 2000 guitarist / songwriter Robin Staps moved to Berlin. At the end of 2001 the band moved into the basement of a former aluminum factory from World War II and set up “Oceanland”, a complex of rehearsal, sleeping and studio rooms, where all albums were recorded and produced independently until 2007. In July 2002 The Ocean played their first official concert with three classical live instrumentalists (trombone, cello, flute) in front of 300 spectators in Berlin-Mitte. In October 2003, after a self-released album called Islands / Tides, the first official CD Fogdiver was released via Make My Day Records.

After numerous concerts and short tours at home and abroad, The Ocean won the band competition for the Riotfest in Antwerp ( Belgium ) in December 2003 . In January 2004 the band began recording two new studio albums. In three months, an entire orchestra with eight violins, five cellos, clarinets and flutes was reproduced. The first half of this recording session was released under the title Fluxion in August 2004 via Make My Day Records (Germany) and Throne Records (European abroad). A new singer joined the collective even before the recordings and made sure that the album was much more direct and uncomfortable than the instrumental Fogdiver .

In the fall of 2004 she performed several concerts with Nasum and Cult of Luna before setting off on her first headlining tour through Germany in November. Work then continued on the second half of Fluxion at Metal Blade Records . The successor Aeolian was a bit more direct and harder; the classical instrumental passages on Fluxion took a back seat for the time being. A number of guest singers have been signed, including Tomas Hallbom from Breach , Nate Newton ( Converge / Old Man Gloom ) and Sean Ingram ( Coalesce ). The album in Tonteknik-studio mastered Swedish Umea by Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna).

The band spent five months in 2006 on the tour bus promoting Aeolian from Sweden to Portugal . In the course of this, The Ocean also played at some major summer festivals, such as Summer Breeze , Brutal Assault ( Czech Republic ) and a single concert at the St Feliu Festival in Spain . At the end of the year the band began working on Precambrian . It is noteworthy that the album was named after the Precambrian and the songs on the album after the geological ages in the Precambrian. The Ocean spent the first half of 2007 in the studio before setting off on a four-week European tour with The Black Dahlia Murder in August .

In 2008 the band had to give up "Oceanland". At the same time, in contrast to the earlier frequent changes of musicians, a solid formation emerged, which mainly consisted of Swiss , which is why the band relocated their rehearsal room to that country. The number of guest singers on the album Heliocentric , released in April 2010, was also reduced compared to the previous album . On the other hand, the concept of two thematically linked albums was taken up again, but they were released with a considerable time lag, as was the case with Fluxion and Aeolian . The Anthropocentric , released in November 2010 , was the musically heavier counterpart to the comparatively quiet previous album. The lyrics of both albums deal with the maintenance of the geocentric worldview as well as the anthropocentrism derived from it by Christian fundamentalists .

On April 26, 2013, the follow-up work Pelagial was released , which was released as a double album , with one CD representing the instrumental version and the other CD containing vocals. It is a concept album about the ocean, with the five pelagic layers being set to music from top to bottom in eleven songs . On October 31, 2013, the band announced the departure of drummer Luc Hess and guitarist Jona Nido. This was justified with personal and musical differences that had arisen over the years of cooperation, but was done by mutual agreement. From 2014 the lineup will be completed by Paul Seidel (drums; formerly War from a Harlots Mouth ) and Damian Murdoch (guitar). On October 23, 2015, The Ocean released the split EP Transcendental on their label Pelagic Records together with the Japanese post-rock band Mono , which includes the twelve-minute new track “The Quiet Observer”.

In February 2018, studio recording began for the album Phanerozoic I: Palaezoic , which was released on November 2, 2018. The two-part work whose sequel was announced in 2020, is a concept album that content the gap between Precambrian and Heliocentric / Anthropocentric should close by itself with the evolution , diversification of life forms and the mass extinctions in the geological era of Paleozoic concerned. In addition to guitarist and songwriter Robin Staps, the lineup consists of Paul Seidel on drums, Mattias Hägestrand on bass, Loïc Rossetti as singer, Vincent Membrez on piano and cellist Dalai Theofilopoulou.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Pelagic
  DE 68 05/10/2013 (1 week)
Phanerozoic I - Palaeozoic
  DE 41 11/09/2018 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 2002: Islands / Tides ( self-published )
  • 2003: Fogdiver (Make My Day Records; re-released in 2005 on Iapetus Records)
  • 2004: Fluxion (Throne Records / Make My Day Records; re-released on Pelagic Records in 2009 )
  • 2005: Aeolian ( Metal Blade Records )
  • 2007: Precambrian (double CD; Metal Blade Records)
  • 2010: Heliocentric (Metal Blade Records)
  • 2010: Anthropocentric (Metal Blade Records)
  • 2013: Pelagial (Metal Blade Records)
  • 2018: Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (Metal Blade Records)

Other publications

  • 2005: Queen of the Food-Chain / Inertia ( 7 " - Single ; Furthermocker Records)
  • 2005: Split-7 "with the band Burst (Garden of Exile Records)
  • 2015: Transcendental Split EP with the band Mono (Pelagial Records)

Web links

Commons : The Ocean  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Robin Staps from The Ocean . metalnews. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
  2. ↑ Charts DE