The Ocean Announces US Tour

The Ocean (Berlin, Germany) will be performing 3 dates in Canada at the beginning of their North American tour, to start in mid May.

The Ocean's first Metal Blade release Aeolian, which came out in spring 2006, made a colossal dent in the European metal scene and proved this was a band not to be ignored internationally. The reactions to the album – for the first time on a worldwide scale – were indeed amazing, getting highest scores from England to Italy to the US. The disc was Album of the Month in the Swedish Close Up magazine, while Kerrang! Called it "complex, overwhelming and mercilessly tight", rewarding it with 4 Ks. Revolver (USA) gave 5 out of 5 points and stated: "The Ocean make the guitar / bass / drums axis seem monstrously huge, bringing a symphonic richness to the music without sacrificing its ear-bludgeoning quality."

At the end of 2006, the band commenced work on Precambrian, a double album which was released November 2007. Its concept and album artwork evolve around the early days of our planet, when mother earth was a hostile and uninhabitable place devoid of life and reigned by fire, sulfur and streams of red-glowing lava. The two disk CD is composed of a mini-CD with 22 minutes playing time entitled 'Hadean/Archaean', and a full-length CD with 61 minutes playing time, entitled 'Proterozoic', both referring to successive geological eras.

The Ocean / Kylesa co-headline w/ Lair of the Minotaur, and Withered

5/24/08 Boston, MA Church Of Boston
5/25/08 Wallingford, CT Cherry Street Station
5/26/08 New York, NY Knitting Factory
5/27/08 Cleveland, OH Peabody's
5/28/08 Chicago, IL Reggie's Rock Club
5/29/08 Covington, KY Mad Hatter
5/30/08 Charlotte, NC Tremont Music Hall
5/31/08 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade

The Ocean / Kylesa co-headline w/ Lair of the Minotaur
6/1/08 Orlando, FL Back Booth
6/2/08 Tampa, FL Brass Mug
6/3/08 Tallahassee, FL The Beta Bar

The Ocean w/ Lair of the Minotaur
6/4/08 Metairie, LA The High Ground

The Ocean w/ The Destro and Lair of the Minotaur
6/5/08 Houston, TX TBA
6/6/08 Austin, TX Red 7
6/7/08 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves
6/8/08 San Antonio, TX Rock Bottom
6/10/08 El Paso, TX Chic's
6/11/08 Farmington, NM Gator's
6/12/08 Tempe, AZ Clubhouse
6/13/08 Fresno, CA Audie's Olympic
6/14/08 San Francisco, CA Annie's Social Club
6/15/08 San Marcos, CA Jumping Turtle
6/16/08 San Luis Obispo, CA Downtown Brew
6/17/08 Hollywood, CA Knitting Factory