- Michael Roberts, This year has been a great year for comeback releases. If I really have to though, I’ll give special mention to the Nile-esque bombast which opens “With Legions…” as well as the irresistible groove of “Slaughtered Like Swine.” It’s obviously early days for Oceano and while they’re yet to develop a distinctive presence or personality that would elevate them into excellence, Depths is still an accomplished debut and one of the stronger death offerings so far in 2009. Billboard Hot 100, and reached No. Oceano signed to Earache Records in 2008 after gaining a notable local following. What took so long? I never had nor will be into the whole Twitter craze, but from a business aspect, the more outlets available to spread the word about your music, the better. “He’s seen enough to gauge that there’s importance to it all.”. After a year, Southcomb and Hare parted ways with the band.

Country of origin: Argentina Location: N/A Status: Active Formed in: 2003 Genre: Progressive Power Metal Lyrical themes: Patriotism Current label: Perfect Symmetry The boys raise the bar yet again with Revelation. After serving notice to the world with their debut Depths just last year the band has honed their bash and kill style of deathcore even more via relentless touring. In the Summer of 2008, the band signed with Earache Records with whom they have released 4 albums.

Group Members. The underlying rhythm is as bottom-heavy as ever but here it merely forms the base for a shimmering, hauntingly melodic six-minute piece sans vocals. Ocean managed additional hits in Canada with the songs "We've Got a Dream" and "One More Chance", both written by the British songwriting team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, but they failed to make any further impact in the U.S., and the group disbanded in 1975 after having released two albums. The band's second album, Contagion was released on 9th November 2010.
In fact while it certainly bears all the hallmarks of the oft maligned genre, there’s a fair bit more here than cynics might expect.Superficially, Depths sounds an awful lot like Whitechapel’s latest.

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As Oceano’s voice, how do you respond to this sort of stereotyping?Well, to single out the genre of “deathcore” and its vocals is very hard. Group Members.


The album was picked up in the U.S. by the Kama Sutra label, which also released the band's second album, Give Tomorrow's Children One More Chance, in both the U.S. and Canada. With their 2008 signing to EARACHE RECORDS, OCEANO is primed to prove to the world that when they say they are "Bringin the Beef," they aren't fooling around. Submit Corrections. [5][6], Recording Industry Association of America, https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1971-05-01, "Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame: Put Your Hand in the Hand", "Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand CD Album Canada", "Put Your Hand In The Hand '45' by Ocean", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ocean_(band)&oldid=963539730, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 10:37. I felt quite accomplished. Is there a particular message or lesson you hope fans will derive from your lyrics?Each song in Contagion further elaborates towards the story of a highly fatal contaminant which is created and exposed with the intent of the public blindly surrendering their rights unto the government for “protection.” Essentially, Contagion is an exaggerated scenario of how government utilizes their power to control the population through lies and deciet.You guys only recently started using a band Twitter account, quite surprising considering many of your peers were really active on the site.

Upon its formation in 2006, the band then featured 6 members and performed at local venues in the Chicago area.

Oceano is an American deathcore band from Chicago in Illinois. Do you see the value in this type of direct communication with your fans?Yeah it took a while but we’re on there! The track just crushes and is a definite step up songwriting-wise with several chaotic changes throughout.

OCEANO was initially a grindcore band formed in 2006. But after getting on stage, the jitters subsided and we all felt the tour went very well, especially for learning their entire set in about a week. Below, check out his comments on the response to Depths, the concept behind the upcoming Contagion album, and labeling his music “deathcore.”So, a year ago, MetalSucks published a 5-out-of-5 review I wrote of your debut album Depths that caused quite a stir.

The choice of where to keep it simple and where to burn is the mark of an educated, talented drummer.

There are three members of the band; Nicholas, Joesph, and Kevin. Oceano’s ability to encode such a transmission within the framework of tight, taut, and technical heavy music remains a key to their success since 2006. They shared the stage on marathon tours with the likes of Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Acacia Strain, and many others. Their signature breakdowns and inhuman heaviness is still intact, but the band's traditional death metal influence now shines through more than ever, leading to a stronger melding of old school and modern extremities.

Pre-order it here.-GS - Gary Suarez, Like it or not, the Earache debut from Chicago's Oceano is a pretty accurate snapshot of where death metal is currently at. In 2007 after the release of their grindcore demo and a series of lineup changes, the band started writing their deathcore material and released two demo's featuring their new sound. "OCEANO is the heaviest, most pissed off band on the planet. “Exist in Confinement” has a nice melodic and clean picked intro and some interesting thematic parts before switching into creepy, dramatic interlude mode. So I think that’s just a closed minded prejudgment to an otherwise taboo style of music in the eyes of certain metal purist. Cementing his status as one of the rising elite vocalists in the genre Adam Walker unleashes his unearthly growls and screams upon you.

Ocean was a Canadian gospel rock band formed in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario.

The song is technically where our next album will pick up!”, Meanwhile, the title track focuses on a moment of awareness for the narrator, breaking the proverbial fourth wall. Adam Warren - vocalsChason Westmoreland - drumsJason Jones - bass guitarNick Conser - guitarMichael Kasper - guitar, albums on lastfm :Contagion Depths ———————————————–2) a Spanish singing groupalbums on lastfm :Conga Rock Aunque Sea Tarde Limbo Esta Noche (En Vivo).

[1] The single sold over one million copies, earning a gold disc in the United States from the Recording Industry Association of America, on 3 May 1971. Picking up where 2015’s critically acclaimed Ascendants left off, the Illinois band—Adam Warren [lead vocals], Scott Smith [lead guitar], Chris Wagner [bass], and Andrew Holzbaur [drums]—expand their patented deathcore punch with intriguing atmospherics and a thought-provoking narrative that’s as deep as it is dark.

Bands such as Bring Me The Horizon, For Today, and even Chiodos have created memorable albums to remodel or even save their reputations.

The next great band in their storied history is Chicago’s OCEANO who are about to release their second album Contagion. In November 2010, Oceano released their sophomore album, Contagion.

Jeremy Carrol was fired from the band in January 2009 due to personality conflicts between members. Dead Planet 5. Other standout songs you should check out are “The Contaminated”, the single “Weaponized”, and the sure to be much requested “Sadistic Experiments”. [3], The song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, in 2006.[4].

“This is one of the final revelations as far as the story goes,” he elaborates. Forming in 2006, Oceano began as a grindcore band from the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. But I welcome any and all criticism or judgment. Nephilim 2.

The Taken 6. The Ocean has known many different line-ups since its inception in 2000, and until 2007 was … Its just so hard and stressing nowadays to keep up with the trends of the internet and this whole social network crap to me, is getting out of hand. OCEANO was initially a grindcore band formed in 2006.