vocals - Mike Pilat, Nico Webers, Rene Nocon, Robin Staps, Nate Newton, Jan Oberg, Caleb Scofield, Eric Kalsbeek, Jason Emry, Meta
live visuals: Nils Lindenhayn
samples, creative despotism - Robin Staps
Precambrian - CD - 2007
Aeolian - CD - 2005
Fluxion - CD - 2004
Fogdiver - CD - 2003
Fogdiver - LP - 2003
Fluxion/Aeolian - 3xLP - 2005
Split 7" with Burst - 2005
Mock 7" - 2005
Influences
Neurosis, David Lynch, The Refused, Starkweather, Lautreamont, Chopin, Botch, Andre Tarkowskij, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Arthur Rimbaud, Breach, The Swans, Dali, the Melvins and other surrealists...
Sounds Like
... no other band on this eternally doomed planet. We shared the stage with bands like: Dillinger Escape Plan | Cult Of Luna | Mono | Isis | Keelhaul | Norma Jean | The end of the Universe | Eden Maine | Coma | Zao | Walls Of Jericho | Nine | The Hope Conspiracy | Himsa | Heaven Shall Burn | Tephra and many others...
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The Ocean Collective’s oftentimes deeply convoluted compositions sweep across dismal landscapes shaped by faceless modern archi-tecture and symbols of power looming large on all horizons, tearing up the asphalt of our cities’ streets with berserk drum-attacks, at times pausing for a minatorial
instant, granting the battered listener a short moment to breathe in the foul odor of panic, before winding up again, with deafening noise and sparks flying all across the stage, into the black city night’s skies... Rich with dire lust for life and oozing with complaisant brutality, they come across as epic and sinfonical, long yet hardly long-winded. Slow, calm and doomy passages with classical instruments and clear references to soundtrack music culminate in guitar-dominated outbursts of orchestral noise and modern, technical metal/hardcore.
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"The Ocean’s Robin Staps is to metal as George Lucas is to filmmaking."
- Kevin Stewart-Panko, METAL MANIACS, USA
"a multifaceted display of complexity and heaviness that simply must be heard!"
- TheMetalForge.com
"Queen of the Food Chain,” the album’s best track — and the year’s finest metal single
to date — is blending all of The Ocean's stregths: majestic black-metal keys, industrial
squeaks underneath the guitar riffs, long acoustic passages spotlighting drummer Torge Ließmann,
and Ingram’s superiorly modulated growls."
- EXCLAIM Magazine, Canada<br>
"airily melodic passages alongside end-of-the-world-is-nigh bludgeon. 'Fogdiver' is an eminently listenable
piece of work, with skilful attention to mood comparable to soundtrack music."
- "Fogdiver" (UK-edition) scores KKKK in Kerrang!
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I saw you twice in 1 week, at Pukkelpop and in Koln. From the biggest stage to the smallest place you are my favorites, from far. It's a pity that I dont have any particular skill to help you in the Collective. Cheers from Belgium.
Damn you guys were fuckin' amazing even that early in the (slightly mourning) morning !!! Hope to meet you and your music again soon... ...Lesley _ NOHEROES
