Ocean, The - Anthropocentral

THE OCEAN have traditionally been releasing parallel instrumental versions of all their albums, which offer a different perspective and often different mix as compared to the vocal versions. - Anthropocentral“ is the corresponding instrumental to their 2010 album Anthropocentric“, now released for the first time ever on vinyl! - The „centrics“-albums saw the introduction of current vocalist Loïc Rossetti to the band's lineup, a game changer in their 17 years history. „Anthropocentric“ is heavier than its same - year predecessor „Heliocentric“, with the crushing 15-minutes opening track duality „The Grand Inquisitor“ part I and II followed by „She Was The Universe“, one of the most-streamed THE OCEAN tracks to date. - Conceptually, „Heliocentric“ and „Anthropocentric“ are a comprehensive critique of the legacy of christianity: While „Heliocentric“ approaches the topic in a historical-chronological way, the focus of „Anthropocentric“ is the „Grand Inquisitor“-chapter in Dostoyevsky's world-famous novel „The Brothers Karamazov“, spread out over 3 tracks of the album. Other songs like the serene „The Almightiness Contradiction“ take up ideas by Richard Dawkins, the spearhead of modern day's aetheism. - 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 theatres in Ecuador. “The Ocean does for earth science class what Mastodon did for Melville: make learning brutal", Decibel wrote about 2007's Precambrian, Revolver describing it as a “Teutonic paean to Earth's geology“. 2013's seminal Pelagial, described as “a filmic ode to shifting moods, dichotomous influences and the musical personification of sinking towards the planet's deepest underwater points“ by Rock Sound, was a milestone for the band, and their most conceptual work to date, and was ranked #3 at LoudWire's “Best Metal Albums Of 2013”, and #5 in About.com's “2013 Best Heavy Metal Albums“. - FOR FANS OF: BREACH, TOOL, THRICE, NINE INCH NAILS, CULT OF LUNA, ISIS, KARNIVOOL, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, MONO, MASTODON, OPETH, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME.