The Ocean announce 'Heliocentric' release date, tourdates, upcoming live DVD

The Ocean have announced that their upcoming album Heliocentric will be released on April 9th (Germany), April 12th (Europe) and April 13th (North America). It will not be released on April 14th, as the band announced earlier on Facebook.

The band will be playing a release show with a full lineup, including piano, saxophone and strings, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on March 26th. They will perform the new album in its entirety, as well as some older songs. The show, as well as the band's performance at Friction Fest in Berlin on May 7th, will be filmed for a DVD release on Metal Blade records later this year. Some new merch designs are available as well.

They have published the following list of upcoming gigs (more dates will be announced soon):

26/03/10 - CH - La Chaux-deFonds @ Bikini Test, w/ NEBRA
27/03/10 - CH - Geneva @ L'Usine, w/ NEBRA
01/04/10 - IT - Perugia @ Urban Club
02/04/10 - IT - Rome @ Init
03/04/10 - IT - Brescia @ Olden Club
04/04/10 - IT - Torino @ Supermarket
06/04/10 - IE - Galway @ Roisin Dubh
07/04/10 - IE - Cork @ Cyprus Avenue
09/04/10 - IE - Dublin @ Fibber Maggees
10/04/10 - IE - Belfast @ The Limelight
13/04/10 - CH - Basel @ Hirscheneck
15/04/10 - DE - Köln @ Underground
17/04/19 - DK - Arhus @ Metal Royale Festival
07/05/10 - DE - Berlin @ Astra _ Friction Fest
08/05/10 - CH - Hasle @ Break The Silence Fest (with Cynic and TesseracT, as we wrote earlier)
14/07/10 - ES - Madrid Ritmo Y Compas
15/07/10 - ES - Barcelona @ Sala Be Cool
16/07/10 - ES - Bilbao @ Sala Santana
17/07/10 - ES - Foz @ Mareira Fest

Read the announcement on Myspace.