Heavy and heady post-metal outfit The Ocean will soon release what they’re billing as “the closing chapter” of their “palaeontology-inspired series”.
Holocene is due on May 19 via Pelagic, the influential label the band founded. The record (their 10th) is the follow-up to their acclaimed 2020 work, Phanerozoic II, and the new release takes its name from the last track of its predecessor. The word ‘holocene’ relates to our planet’s present geological era, and guitarist Robin Staps says the album’s about “the angst, alienation, loss of reason, and critical thinking, rise of conspiracy theories and deconstruction of values in the modern age.”