Tag Archive: Oceano

Oceano – Contagion

Filed Under: Reviews

Nov.18, 2010

Oceano

Contagion

01. Precursor to Enslavement
02. Viral Re-animation
03. Regulated Disposal of Life
04. Quarantine
05. The Contaminated
06. Exist in Confinement
07. Persuasive Oppression
08. Weaponized
09. Sadistic Experiments
10. Remnants Aflame
11. Ending Intellect

[Earache | 11/09/10]

Oceano have a pretty bad rep around these parts. I personally haven’t much time for deathcore as it is, but in all fairness, if you’re going to cite a particular band as a negative influence on metal today, you should know what you’re talking about.

That said, I didn’t come into this predisposed to give this album a bad review. Oceano are liked by a lot of kids; they’re meant to be the forefront of deathcore, and so despite the severe animosity my compatriots have shown towards Contagion, surely there must be something of merit?

Well: no, no there isn’t. Not really, and not for me at least.

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Tags: Contagion, deathcore, Oceano

Born of Osiris Are In The Studio: PART II?

Filed Under: General News, Upcoming releases, Video

Oct.13, 2010

For the life of me, I can’t remember if I’ve posted the first studio video on here or not, but my internet at home has been beyond lousy as of late, so I’ve had a hard time working on the site and figuring shit out. My new modem should be in soon, so I’ll try to get more done when it comes in! That said, don’t expect all that much else from me today unless luck happens.

So Born Of Osiris have posted their second studio video online this week. As you might be able to tell from the video, BoO have decided not to record with Joey Sturgis producing. Thank goodness; that man was responsible for producing some of the shittiest albums to pass for metal in the past few years. We’re talking Attack Attack, Emmure, and Oceano here. Get that shit out of my face. Apparently the only great albums he produced that I can see here was for I Am Abomination. Instead, the group are co-producing it with Don Byczynski, who recently said the album will have twelve tracks. This is sounding like it will be their best work yet.

Born of Osiris’ third studio album is due out early next year on Sumerian Records.

- JR

Tags: Attack Attack, Born of Osiris, Don Byczynski, Emmure, I Am Abomination, Joey Sturgis, Oceano

Fuck. [Part II]

Filed Under: RAGE, Tours and Rumors of Tours

Aug.25, 2010

In a hilarious turn of events, Chelsea Grin frontman Alex Koehler fractured his jaw, effectively preventing him from Chelsea Grinning. Dohoho!!

However, instead of canceling the tour so we can all have a hearty bout of laughter, they decide to ruin our shit by going ahead and touring with Oceano frontman Adam Warren. It’s like shit going into other shit. So if you take into consideration this Chelsea Grin tour (with Atilla and Blind Witness) and the Attack Attack!/Emmure tour, the United States and Canada are rightly fucked as far as live show opportunities are concerned.

Check for dates after the jump. Dammit all.

- JR

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Tags: Adam Warren, Alex Koehler, Atilla, Attack Attack, Blind Witness, Chelsea Grin, Emmure, Oceano

Fuck.

Filed Under: RAGE, Tours and Rumors of Tours

Aug.24, 2010

Two of the most despised forces in metal are teaming up to rape tour North America. I could do a long, drawn out post about what it is and how bad it is, but I’ll just let the following image do most of the talking.

The only thing that’s missing from this tour is Oceano. I hear they were originally going to be booked, but sanctions against them from the UN kind of stopped that ball before it started rolling.

If you need to know the dates so you know if you need to ‘HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFE, CUZ DEY BE RAPIN ERRBODY UP IN HURR’, check em after the jump.

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Tags: Attack Attack, In Fear and Faith, Oceano, Of Mice and Men, Pierce the Veil

Concert Review: Over The Limit Tour

Filed Under: Live, Reviews, Tours and Rumors of Tours

Aug.04, 2010

This past summer has been full of great tours here in North America, and one of the ones I’ve been most excited for is the Over The Limit Tour. With a fairly solid lineup of mostly techy deathcore bands, with a few exceptions, I was expecting a pretty good show. I’ll go ahead and tell you I was disappointed with what some of them had to offer, but the show only cost me $10 and it was only an hour drive to Ground Zero in Spartanburg SC from where I live so I’m not complaining.

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Tags: Arsonists Get All The Girls, As Blood Runs Black, Burning the Masses, Cattle Decapitation, Circle of Contempt, concert review, deathcore, hardcore, Live, Oceano, Over the Limit Tour, Son of Aurelius, tech death, the tony danza tapdance extravaganza, Thick As Blood, This Or The Apocalypse, tour

Five Reasons Why Deathcore Is Total Shit #5: Oceano – Depths

Filed Under: Editorials

Jul.05, 2010

Inspired by GroverXIII of TNOTB’s series of posts regarding nu-metal, Heavy Blog Is Heavy will be counting down the top five reasons why the genre of deathcore is totally full of shit. If you want to throw in your two cents and call me out on missing out a gem that this genre has to offer, mouth off in the comment section. Be sure to check out my Five Reasons Why Deathcore Isn’t Total Shit for some better music. Enjoy!

You will find that breakdowns will be a major theme going this week. Some bands use breakdowns for an actual musical purpose instead of an excuse to mosh, but you won’t be seeing any of that this week. It’s all fucking terrible and contrived palm muted open note chugging, all without polyrhythms to make them technical. This week, we’ll start out small before delving into some real shit. There is just too much terrible music in this genre to do a countdown of the worst of the worst, as I refuse to listen to all of it. Instead, I’m just giving you five examples of terrible deathcore, which get worse each time, unlike last week where I counted down my favorites. Let’s get started, shall we?

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Tags: Five Reasons Why Deathcore Is Total Shit, Oceano

Today Is Apparently A Day For Some New Christian Deathcore

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases

Jun.28, 2010

Facedown Records, represent.

For Today are streaming their new song “Devastator” from their upcoming album Breaker on their MySpace page. As far as I can tell, the band have stepped their game up in terms of songwriting. It’s more than chugs and sweeps, so things are definitely picking up. Maybe their upcoming album will be something worth listening to. Maybe.

Fun fact: Mitch sort of enjoyed their album Portraits, and like it says in his bio (now located in the site footer) he hates everything. Either give him shit for it or take it as a sign that these guys aren’t completely terrible. Breaker will be out August 31st.

Meanwhile, Impending Doom are streaming the title track to their new album, There Will Be Violence on their MySpace page. It’s just about what you’d expect if you heard them before. You know, if people call Oceano Blackchapel, does that make Impending Doom Christchapel?

The new Christchapel album is due out July 20th.

- JR

Tags: Facedown Records, For Today, Impending Doom, Oceano, Whitechapel

Another One Bites The Dust: ABACABB

Filed Under: Another One Bites The Dust, General News

Jun.17, 2010

The terribly generic deathcore/Scantroncore band ABACABB have called it quits, removing one of the blemishes on the Sumerian Records lineup. As much as I want to say “Thank God” and “Finally,” ABACABB certainly aren’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard, and I know that the band must have brought joy to someone at some point, so they had something going for them, right?

Here’s the statement from vocalist Tyler Green, via Lambgoat.

“I have heard several things going around on why Abacabb called it quits. It was not just because our bass player quit, or because we had money problems, or any of the other reasons I have heard people talking about. There are probably a million reasons why we decided that it’s best if we all moved on from Abacabb; it was basically a snowball effect that would not end. One thing led to another and it all just became so clear to me and the guys that we should just call it quits. I’m sure you will see a couple of us doing other things in the future. I’m going to go ahead and say the same thing that every other band says. Thanks for all the memories, thanks to anyone who came to a show, bought a CD or shirt, thanks to anyone who booked us a show, booked us a tour, worked for our band, let us sleep on their floor, or let us shower. Thanks to anyone who played in this band and made all this possible. It’s been the best 6 years of my life and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. We will be playing some last shows on the east coast this fall, make sure you come out! Also, we will be leaving our merchstores up for a few months so make sure you check them out and grab some merch!”

I certainly won’t miss them, but why couldn’t it have been a band like Oceano?

- JR

Tags: ABACABB, Oceano

There Is No Justice In This World

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

Jun.16, 2010

Yesterday, a new Oceano tour was announced in the way of the Over The Limit Tour, in which they co-headline with As Blood Runs Black. Normally when I see headlines such as this in my RSS Feed, I ignore them. But this time, I had to take a look, as Arsonists Get All The Girls, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, and Circle of Contempt are also on the tour. Circle of Contempt are good, but Danza and Arsonists are god-tier in the scene as far as I’m concerned and them touring together is enough for my pants to get a little tight. The fact that they have to open for this shit deathcore band Oceano is proof that there is no justice in this world.

Also in the lineup: Thick as Blood, Burning The Masses, Blindwitness, with Sons of Aurelius and This or the Apocalypse on select dates. I don’t particularly care enough about any of them, but that’s besides the point. Danza and Arsonists are going to be on tour together. Get excited.

Here’s the plan: Show up, see show, leave before Oceano comes on.

Here are the dates for the tour:

July 23 – Lake Station, IN @ Lake Station Eagles Hall
July 24 – Evansville, IN @ Boney Junes
July 25 – Toledo, OH @ Headliners
July 26 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
July 27 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
July 28 – Reading, PA @ The Silo
July 29 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Loft
July 30 – Vineland, NJ @ Hangar 84
July 31 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium (w/ Summer Slaughter)
August 1 – Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
August 2 – Fayetteville, NC @ The Rock Shop
August 3 – Spartanburg, SC @ Ground Zero
August 5 – Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit
August 6 – Orlando, FL @ H2O Live
August 7 – Douglasville, GA @ The 7 Venue
August 8 – Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theatre
August 9 – Tulsa, OK @ Marquee Theatre
August 10 – Tyler, TX @ Knights of Columbus
August 12 – Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock
August 13 – McAllen, TX @ Las Palmas Event Center
August 14 – Austin, TX @ Emos
August 15 – Wichita Falls, TX The Hanger
August 16 – Amarillo, TX @ The War Legion
August 17 – Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
August 19 – El Paso, TX @ Club 101
August 20 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
August 21 – Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse

Nothing close enough for me to see. Bummer.

- JR

Tags: Arsonists Get All The Girls, As Blood Runs Black, Blindwitness, Burning the Masses, Circle of Contempt, Oceano, Over the Limit Tour, Son of Aurelius, the tony danza tapdance extravaganza, Thick As Blood, This Or The Apocalypse

Illinois’s ROOKS Hatemosh Their Way Into The Djent Scene

Filed Under: Audio, Downloads

May.18, 2010

There’s been a movement in heavy music going on recently that anybody paying attention has already noticed and for lack of a better term, we’re going to call it the “Djent Movement”.
We see this in a rise of math metal bands getting signed and/or publicly recognized, those of which include: Periphery, Monuments, Chimp Spanner, Tre Watson‘s solo endeavor, among many others. One band I feel that isn’t getting the hype they deserve would be ROOKS, out of Northbrook, Illinois.

Now everyone knows that the djent genre is dominated by technically above average musicians and one man band prodigies. This is not quite the case with ROOKS. Rather than focusing purely on technical riffs and mind-boggling polyrhythms, ROOKS find their niche in combining the classic djent sound with the attitude driven riffs and aggressive delivery of hardcore (I’m talking about the real Hardcore that came from punk you doofus). It is this volatile melody that I feel makes this band stick out from the pack. Another noteworthy attribute of the band is it’s line up. Featuring an ex-Oceano guitarist (Jeremy is the cool one, not like the lame drama spreading one), an ex-Convoy! vocalist, and I think one or two ex-Monsters members, the band is practically a dream team of sorts.

Below is a few tracks from their + x – (Addition By Subtraction) EP that you can get from ITunes or just pirate off the internet as the band has said themselves that they’re not trying to get rich. Also check out the band on
Myspace and Facebook.

ROOKS – Truth

ROOKS – 10:1

- JB

Tags: Chimp Spanner, Convoy!, djent, Monsters, Monuments, Oceano, Periphery, Rooks, Tre Watson