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The Ocean have revealed the track listing for their upcoming album 'Heliocentric', which is due for release in March this year. The band will release another album 'Anthropocentric' in October. They write that "the concept at the base of both albums is a critique of christianity from different philosophical and personal angles". As we reported earlier, samples of the new album are available at http://www.theoceancollective.com/heliocentric/.
The track listing for Heliocentric is:
01. Shamayim
02. Firmament
03. The First Commandment of the Luminaries
04. Ptolemy Was Wrong
05. Metaphysics of the Hangman
06. Catharsis of a Heretic
07. Swallowed by the Earth
08. Epiphany
09. The Origin of Species
10. The Origin of God
The band describe the album as follows:
"Musically, 'Heliocentric' covers the largest range of dynamics and styles to date: there are a few really calm songs with mainly piano and vocals, as well as some crushing heavy tunes. There is a very special atmosphere to it that pervades the album."
"Our new vocalist Loic Rossetti has immensely widenened the musical spectrum of this band and there are some songs on the album that even those people who have conceived of this band as being unpredictable and daring would have never imagined."
"'Heliocentric' continues where the 'Proterozoic' half of the 'Precambrian'-album left off, with dense, epic songs and big orchestrations. 'Anthropocentric' is going to be a bit more straight forward rocking and technical, whilst tapping the full dynamic range from acoustic pieces to eclectic heaviness as well."
Read the announcement on Myspace.