| The Ocean have posted a brand new tour documentary from their 2013 Pelagial World Tour over on their youtube channel. With quality similar to their recently released "Collective Oblivion" triple DVD, this documentary follows the band through The Summer Slaughter Tour, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Russia. It's truly an in depth look into what it's like to tour on a worldwide scale as an underground metal band; and it's only the first of two parts! View part one now at youtube.com/theoceancollective. The Ocean, will be returning to North America this spring for the first time since last year's The Summer Slaughter Tour. In just over a month, their co-headline tour with Prosthetic Recording artist Scale the Summit begins. The tour also includes special guests The Atlas MothandSilver Snakes, and is being presented by Metal Sucks. The tour kicks off onWednesday, March 5 in Seattle Washington and wraps up on Sunday, March 30 in Cambridge Mass., including two dates scheduled in Austin, TX for SXSW. The Ocean will notice a change in the lineup from the last time around, as they've added drummer Paul Seidel, and guitarist Damian Murdoch to replace Luc Hess and Jona Nido, who departed the band on mutual terms late last year. Live videos have been made available from The Summer Slaughter Tour stop at the Rave in Milwaukee, WI. Fans can watch "Demersal: Cognitive Dissonance" (featuring guest vocals from CJ of Thy Art is Murder) HERE. | 
THE OCEAN Tour w/ Scale The Summit, The Atlas Moth, Silver Snakes 03/05 Seattle, WA Chop Suey 03/06 Portland, OR Branx 03/07 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill 03/08 Los Angeles, CA The Lyric 03/09 San Diego, CA Soda Bar 03/10 Tempe, AZ Yucca Tap Room 03/11 El Paso, TX The Spot 03/13 Austin, TX Dirty Dog - SXSW 03/14 Grand Prarie, TX QuickTrip Ball Park 03/15 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's 03/16 Metairie, LA Cypress 03/17 Tampa, FL Crowbar 03/18 Pembroke Pines, FL The Talent Farms 03/19 Orlando, FL Backbooth 03/21 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade 03/22 Louisville, KY The Diamond Pub 03/23 Chicago, IL Subterranean 03/24 Pontiac, MI The Pike Room at Crofoot 03/25 Cleveland Heights, OH The Grog Shop 03/26 Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar 03/27 Washington, DC DC9 03/28 Philadelphia, PA Voltage Lounge 03/29 New York, NY The Studio at Webster Hall 03/30 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair End Tour 04/01 Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa 04/02 Toronto, ON Hard Luck 04/03 London, ON Rum Runners |
| The Ocean's highly anticipated triple-DVD release, Collective Oblivion, is available in stores and on-line. Collective Oblivion is something the band has been teasing for quite a while. Fans saw a glimpse of what sort of content would be on this release in the form of tour updates on YouTube, including: Russia 2012 video blog, The Ocean in China, The Ocean North American tour blog 2011, and more. Finally, fans will be able to see this thorough and expansive look at The Ocean's career and touring experiences, including the Heliocentric record release show with an extended line-up of 13 musicians on stage; as well as a special performance at the museum for musical instruments in Berlin, and much, much more! Collective Oblivion includes: - Multiple camera shots of three full live concerts with a total of 21 individual song performances - 130 minutes of The Ocean history, as told by band members, past and present - 175 minutes of tour documentaries and live footage filmed in North America, Asia, Russia, Australia, and Europe - 2 previously unreleased video clips off Anthropocentric songs - old video clips & live visuals - 10 extra individual song performances filmed around the globe - Total run time of 500 minutes! | Collective Oblivion comes in a stunning hardcover/book-style packaging with brass-foil print. The book contains 3 DVDs and a +30 pages booklet, with loads of photos, tour diaries and writings by band members and by director Alex Kraudelt, who dedicated two and a half years of his life to traveling with The Ocean around the globe. Collective Oblivion is the end result of this long odyssey, which produced a total of 28 terabyte of video data for editing. View the trailer for Collective Oblivion at www.metalblade.com/theocean. http://theoceancollective.com/pelagial/ http://www.facebook.com/theoceancollective https://twitter.com/OceanCollective http://www.youtube.com/theoceancollective *press release courtesy of Metal Blade Records |
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