With the official release from the German collective The Ocean’s highly anticipated ‘Pelagial’  album- the band’s forthcoming LP for Metal Blade – less than a week away,  today the band offers up a special video sampler featuring 30-second clips of each track with accompanying artwork.

Immeasurably heavy – both sonically and thematically – Pelagial was written, recorded, mixed and to-be-performed-live as one single 53-minute piece of music.

Easily their most profoundly sophisticated work to date, Pelagial is an aquatic-themed audio adventure that quite literally submerses listeners, as they journey with the band, beginning at the surface of the ocean and plunging through all five pelagic depth zones.

Mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Witchcraft) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebrö, Sweden, Pelagial will be released as a double CD, which includes a vocal and an instrumental version of the album and is scheduled for release in the UK through Metal Blade Records.

photo by David Robinson