THE OCEAN have traditionally been releasing parallel instrumental versions of all of 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 sameyear 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 moststreamed THE OCEAN tracks to date.
While „Heliocentric“ approaches the topic in a historical-chronological way, the main focus o f „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 atheism.
Since 2001, the Berlin-based musician collective THE OCEAN have released 10 critically acclaimed studio albums, and a split EP with Japanese post-rock legends Mono. 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.
Over the course of their storied career, The Ocean have toured with Opeth, Mastodon, Mono, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Anathema, Between The Buried And Me and Devin Townsend, and have appeared on major festivals including Roskilde, Dour, Pukkelpop, Roadburn, Wacken, With Full Force, Summer Slaughter, Summer Breeze and Graspop. The band's own Pelagic Records has also become one of Europe's leading labels for post-rock and postmetal, with a catalog of 120 releases since 2009.
“The Ocean do 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“.
Tracklist
SIDE A
1. Anthropocentric
2. The Grand Inquisitor I: Karamazov Baseness
SIDE B
1. She Was The Universe
2. For He That Wavereth...
3. The Grand Inquisitor II: Roots & Locusts
4. The Grand Inquisitor III: A Tiny Grain of Faith
SIDE C
1. Sewers Of The Soul
2. Wille Zum Untergang
3. Heaven TV
4. The Almightiness Contradiction
