The Ocean - Anthropocentric
Band
The Ocean
Style
Post-metal, Progressive metal, Atmospheric sludge metal
Release date
9 November 2010
Owners
163
have it
25 want it
1 trades it
Tracklist
01. Anthropocentric02. The Grand Inquisitor I: Karamazov Baseness
03. She Was The Universe
04. For He That Wavereth...
05. The Grand Inquisitor II: Roots & Locusts
06. The Grand Inquisitor III: A Tiny Grain Of Faith
07. Sewers Of The Soul
08. Wille Zum Untergang
09. Heaven TV
10. The Almightiness Contradiction
11. The Grand Inquisitor IV: Exclusion From Redemption [vinyl/deluxe digipak bonus]
Staff pick by
Thryce
(2010)
Line-up
Luc Hess - drums
Louis Jucker - bass, vocals
Loïc Rossetti - vocals
Jonathan "Jona" Nido - guitars
Robin Staps - guitars, electronics
Studio musicians
Esther Monnat - cello
Céline Portat - viola
Estelle Beiner - violin
Dalai Theofilopoulou - cello
Mitch Hertz - guitar
Sheila Aguinaldo - vocals
Luc Hess - drums
Louis Jucker - bass, vocals
Loïc Rossetti - vocals
Jonathan "Jona" Nido - guitars
Robin Staps - guitars, electronics
Studio musicians
Esther Monnat - cello
Céline Portat - viola
Estelle Beiner - violin
Dalai Theofilopoulou - cello
Mitch Hertz - guitar
Sheila Aguinaldo - vocals
Additional info
Drums, guitars and bass were recorded at Studio Mécanique (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland).Strings were recorded at ABC Théatre (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland).
Additional cello (Dalai Theofilopoulou's part) was recorded at Hidden Planet Studios (Berlin, Germany).
Vocals were recorded at Oceanland Studios (Spain).
All recordings were held between July 2009 and July 2010.
Mixed at Studio Mécanique.
Mastered at Chartmakers (Helsinki, Finland).
Art design by Martin Kvamme.
Track 3 contains excerpts off Lord Byron's "Darkness". Tracks 4 and 7 contain quotes of Friedrich Nietzsche. The lyrics of the album were inspired by and contain quotes from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov".
Staff pick by
Thryce
Found in 13 lists
Thryce
Ambient Soundtrack Doomrock
Nov 30, 2010
The new The Ocean album is much better than the other new The Ocean album.
The album lies perfectly in line with its predecessor, with the sole difference that Anthropocentric shows aggression, heaviness, power and, well, everything else Heliocentric was lacking.
The album lies perfectly in line with its predecessor, with the sole difference that Anthropocentric shows aggression, heaviness, power and, well, everything else Heliocentric was lacking.
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Need to put my hands in this
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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From the metalsucks stream lsn ,, WOW  ,, The Ocean had just delivered another masterpiece, although i was sure of that 
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Heliocentric was my first encounter with The Ocean and it was utterly boring that I don't feel like listening to another album by them "though being told that the previous stuff is far better"
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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Posts: 5277 Written by InnerSelf on 09.11.2010 at 18:49 You gotta give "Anthropocentric" a try brah. Much heavier than Helio...
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Posts: 2796 Written by tea[m]ster on 26.11.2010 at 19:30 Will do soon, I have been reading good stuff about it 
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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Wille Zum Untergang + Heaven TV = awesome stuff. These two songs alone make this album a lot better than Heliocentric.
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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Posts: 18612 Written by InnerSelf on 26.11.2010 at 21:00 Not mention the real good stuff like Aeolian or Precambrian... I quoted an old post though but still.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Listened to this on a whim after not giving it a go in years, wow it's really damn good! This might kickstart a revival in my interests in The Ocean. The title track is an awesome song
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