THE OCEAN - Release New Video "Jurassic / Cretaceous"

THE OCEAN have released "Jurassic / Cretaceous," the second video from their upcoming live album, Phanerozoic Live, set for release on November 26th. The live album is a showcase of two live events performed by THE OCEAN - Live In Bremen (Part I) and Live At Roadburn Redux (Part II), and will be released by Metal Blade Records digitally worldwide. Fans eager for physical copies can pre-order the album in various formats at Pelagic Records.

Phanerozoic Live Track Listing

Phanerozoic Part I - Live in Bremen:

01. The Cambrian Explosion 

02. Cambrian II 

03. Ordovicium 

04. Silurian 

05. Devonian 

06. The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse 

07. Permian

Phanerozoic Part II - Live At Roadburn Redux:

01. Triassic 

02. Jurassic | Cretaceous 

03. Palaeocene 

04. Eocene 

05. Oligocene 

06. Miocene | Pliocene 

07. Pleistocene 

08. Holocene

"Devonian" (Live in Bremen), as featured on Part I of the album, was released this past September as the first taste from Phanerozoic Live.

In early 2021 with no end of lockdowns in sight, THE OCEAN decided to thank their fans for the support with two streaming concerts, performing both Phanerozoic albums in their entirety: Phanerozoic I was streamed live from Pier 2, a big hall in the port of Bremen, Germany on March 25, 2021. With more than 1,500 tickets sold, it was the most successful show of the popular "Club 100" streaming events series thus far.

The day after this event, the band rehearsed and recorded Phanerozoic II in its entirety. This performance aired on April 16th as part of the digital edition of Roadburn Festival (this year aptly named Roadburn Redux). Both shows couldn't have been more different: where the first part boasts with a pompous, mesmerizing lighting production on a big stage, the second part is quite the opposite: intimate, almost cozy, focused on musicianship rather than performance. "We wanted to give people two totally different experiences", says band leader Robin Staps. "In Bremen, we had the chance to record a proper live show, the way people know us. We played facing towards the front of the stage, to an invisible crowd, essentially to a huge empty room… but we knew people were watching, even if we didn't see them. There was the same rush of adrenaline right before going on stage as you get before going on any stage, maybe with a little extra anxiety added, because knowing that so many people are watching you without being able to see them yourself was super weird."

The fans response to these special events was another testimony to how much THE OCEAN connect with their crowd at home in this very intense way was an experience that was "oddly beautiful and frustrating in equal measure," according to Staps. Now as restrictions begin to lift worldwide, THE OCEAN are more than ready to show fans in-person the power of Phanerozoic Live, with select shows starting this December.

THE OCEAN Tour Dates 2021

12/11 - DE - Leipzig, Felsenkeller 

13/11 - DE - Neunkirchen, Gloomaar Festival 

14/11 - DE - Dortmund, Junkyard

2022

with pg.lost, Hypno5e and Psychonaut: 

07/01 - DE- Berlin, Hole44 

08/01 - CZ - Prague, Nova Chmelnice 

09/01 - AT - Vienna, Szene 

10/01 - DE- Munich, Backstage 

11/01 - IT - Milan, Legend 

12/01 - CH - Lucerne, Sedel 

13/01 - FR - Lyon, CCO Villeurbanne 

14/01 - ES - Barcelona, Boveda 

15/01 - ES - Madrid, Caracol 

16/01 - PT - Lisbon, LAV 

17/01 - ES - Bilbao, Stage Live 

18/01 - FR - Toulouse, Rex 

19/01 - FR - Bordeaux, Krakatoa 

20/01 - FR - Nantes, Ferrailleur 

21/01 - FR - Lille, The Black Lab 

22/01 - NL - Utrecht, De Helling 

23/01 - BE - Brussels, Botanique 

24/01 - FR - Paris, Machine 

25/01 - FR - Colmar, Grillen 

26/01 - DE - Cologne, Gebäude9 

27/01 - DE - Wiesbaden, Schlachthof 

28/01 - DE - Hannover, Bei Chez Heinz 

29/01 - DE - Osnabrück, Kleine Freiheit