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  • The Ocean tour dates 2023

    After a well deserved time off from our extensive touring in ’22 and early ’23, we’re now slowly preparing to get back on the stages to present our new album ‘Holocene’.

    We will play a selected amount of festival shows in August before we head to South Africa for the first time ever (!), followed by a quick visit to support our friends in Ne Obliviscaris in Australia. It’s been over 4 years since we’ve been down under and i’m very excited to set foot once again on this beautiful continent.

    This will hopefully warm us up for a full month of co-headline dates with one of my all-time favorite instrumental post-rock bands called This Will Destroy You.

    • Summer Festivals
    • South Africa
    • South Africa
    • Australia
    • European Tour ’23

    You can find all the dates below:

    SUMMER FESTIVALS

    01/07 – DE Blackdoor Outdoor Festival
    02/08 – RO Rockstadt Extreme Festival
    05/08 – PT Comendatio Festival
    12/08 – CZ Brutal Assault Festival
    16/08 – HU Fekete Zaj Festival
    18/08 – UK ArcTanGent Festival

    SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE DATES

    01/09 – SA Ramfest, Stellenbosch
    02/09 – SA Ramfest, Pretoria
    06/09 – AU Brisbane, The TIvoli
    08/09 – AU Sydney, Manning Bar
    09/09 – AU Melbourne, The Forum
    10/09 – AU Adelaide, The Gov

    EUROPEAN TOUR  w/ This Will Destroy You

    25/09 – CZ Prague, Rock Café
    26/09 – PL Poznan, Tama
    27/09 – PL Krakow, Kamienna12
    28/09 – DE Leipzig, Anker
    29/09 – DE Cologne, Euroblast 
    30/09 – NL Groningen, Vera
    01/10 – UK Brighton, Chalk
    02/10 – UK Bristol, The Fleece
    03/10 – UK Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
    05/10 – UK Glasgow, Classic Grand
    06/10 – UK Leeds, Project House
    07/10 – UK Manchester, Gorilla
    08/10 – UK London, Electric Ballroom
    09/10 – NL Haarlem, Patronaat
    10/10 – FR Paris, La Machine
    11/10 – CH Solothurn, Kofmehl
    12/10 – CH Geneva, PTR/ L’Usine
    13/10 – FR Toulouse, Metronum
    14/10 – ES Barcelona, Salamandra
    15/10 – FR Montpellier, Rockstore
    16/10 – IT Milan, Magnolia
    17/10 – SI Ljubljana, Kino Siska
    18/10 – IT Bologna, Teatro Perla
    20/10 – BE Antwerp, Desertfest
    21/10 – DE Münster, Sputnikhalle
    22/10 – DE Berlin, Astra
    23/10 – DK Copenhagen, Amager Bio
    24/10 – NO Oslo, John Dee
    25/10 – SE Gothenburg, Pustervik
    26/10 – SE Stockholm, Slaktkyrkan

    See you at one of the shows! ♥️

  • Nightmarer album recordings 2020

    After spending almost all of 2019 on the road with The Ocean i flew over to visit my long-time partner in crime Simon Sludge to lock ourselves in and write the Nightmarer follow-up album to “Cacophony of Terror”.

    We spent a good 2 1/2 weeks in an intense writing session before i headed back home to Berlin to record drums at one of my favourite places: Daily Hero Recordings! Our buddy Marc, who has been involved in our album recordings since “In Shoals” times was more than happy to tag along and within 3 days all new tracks were tracked and done!

    I’m very happy with my choice of gear (cymbals, shells, heads etc.), the tuning, the room and how everything turned out eventually! Intense sessions lead to intense music.

    Check out some pictures captured by Emma Kollmorgen below:

    Keep your eyes peeled for new music!
    Love, Paul