THE OCEAN’s oftentimes deeply convoluted compositions sweep across dismal landscapes shaped by faceless modern architecture and symbols of power looming large on all horizons, tearing up the asphalt of our cities’ streets with berserk drum-attacks, at times pausing for a minatorial instant, granting the battered listener a short moment to breathe in the foul odor of panic, before winding up again, with deafening noise and sparks flying all across the stage, into the black city night’s skies... epic and symphonic passages with classical instruments and clear references to soundtrack music culminate in guitar-dominated outbursts of orchestral noise and modern, technical metal/hardcore.

THE OCEAN esteem the following artists as particularly important influences and thus try even more assiduously to dissociate from them: Neurosis, David Lynch, The Refused, King Crimson, Lautreamont, Chopin, Portishead, Botch, Tarkowskij, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Rimbaud, Breach, Godflesh, Dali, the Melvins and other surrealists..

THE OCEAN’s upcoming double album will be entitled "Precambrian" and its concept and album artwork evolve around the early days of this planet, when mother earth was a hostile and uninhabitable place devoid of life and reigned by fire, sulfur and streams of red-glowing lava. The artwork will be once again done by Martin Kvamme.

"Precambrian" is composed of a mini-CD with 22 minutes playing time entitled “Hadean/Archaean”, and a full-length CD with 61 minutes playing time, entitled “Proterozoic”, both referring to successive geological eras. Guests on the album, including Caleb Scofield (CAVE IN, ZOZOBRA, OLD MAN GLOOM), Nate Newton (CONVERGE, DOOMRIDERS), Dwid Hellion (INTEGRITY), Tomas Hallbom (BREACH), Eric Kalsbeek (TEXTURES) and musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.