German post-metal/rock band, The Ocean have just released the track “Permian: The Great Dying”, which is taken from the band’s upcoming album “Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic” which will be released via Metal Blade (CD) and Pelagic Records (LP) on November 2, 2018. “Phanerozoic” is a two-part album, with the second part releasing sometime in 2020. Listen to the song below.
Since 2001, the Berlin-based musician collective The Ocean have released 7 critically acclaimed studio albums, and a split EP with Japanese post-rock legends Mono. With an ever-changing lineup of various on- and off-stage musicians and visual artists, the relentlessly touring group have become well known for their immense, mind-expanding live shows, which they have carried into the most remote corners of the globe, from Siberian squats to colonial theaters in Ecuador.
After 5 years of touring on Pelagial, the band started recording their 8th studio album in February 2018, split into two volumes to be separately released in 2018 and 2020 respectively, titled Phanerozoic. The Phanerozoic eon succeeded the Precambrian supereon, spanning a 500 million-year period leading to the present day, and it has witnessed the evolution and diversification of plant and animal life on Earth, and the partial destruction of it during 5 mass extinction events. Conceptually and musically, The Ocean’s Phanerozoic is the missing link between the albums Precambrian and Heliocentric / Anthropocentric.
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