Some of you may remember that earlier in the week, we briefly ran a story regarding the recent cancellation of a yet to be announced tour of Australia by The Ocean in January of next year, and the online shit fight that ensued between the band and Robert MacManus, a well…
Robin Staps is one of the best songwriters in metal, and is the guitarist of one of the most interesting metal bands with THE OCEAN. After three full-lengths, a double album and two interwoven concept albums, the band, as well as its founder Robin, were ready to finally take on the dream: to write an album about the ocean. Two months after its release, in which it has received universal acclaim, the band is preparing to come back stateside to play on The Summer Slaughter Tour. However, back in April, I gave Robin a call to pick his brain a bit. After giving me a tour of their practice/performance space, where a bunch of lucky people got to witness the album played live in its entirety for the first time ever on release day, I got the chance to talk to Robin about his favorite new music, scuba diving, and how the record almost ended up as an instrumental.
Robin Staps and his band of merry men are set to return this coming April with a brand new album, mixed by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Leprous) through Metal Blade records. The update was given this morning through the band’s Facebook page and contained a whole host of information, most notably…
Needless to say, I am jelly. I am very jelly, indeed. The Ocean are putting out an album today — Anthropocentric. Easily one of my favorites this year, The Ocean have wiggled their way into my heart with a double album of epic proportions in Heliopocentric and Anthropocentric. Go listen…