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Metalblade have uploaded the third track of The Ocean's upcoming concept album 'Anthropocentric', titled 'She Was The Universe'. As we reported before, the album will be released worldwide on November 9th and can be preordered on the band's Metalblade page. In addition, The Ocean are currently touring Europe with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Cancer Bats.

The Ocean's upcoming album Heliocentric is now available for streaming in its entirety from MetalSucks, for 48 hours only. The album will be released tomorrow in Germany, 3 days later (April 12th) in the rest of Europe and on April 13th in North America. It is available for preorder. The band have also uploaded a video about their song 'Firmament', which is the first track on the album after the intro.

Listen to all of 'Heliocentric' on MetalSucks.net.

The Ocean have uploaded the second in a four part series of videos that explain the concepts behind their upcoming album Heliocentric. Watch it below. The first part in the series was posted last week. All four parts will be available eventually on http://www.metalblade.com/oceanbison/.

The organisation of Break The Silence festival reports that Cynic, who were supposed to headline this year's edition of the festival, have had to cancel their touring plans due to financial reasons. They have also announced that After The Burial will be replacing them, with an exclusive one-off European performance. Please click "Read more" to read the press release.

Break The Silence festival 2010 will take place in Hasle-Rüegsau, Switzerland on May 8th. Apart from headliners After The Burial, The Ocean, TesseracT, Nihilo and Art of Phobia will also be playing.

A video of the After The Burial's performance of their song 'A Steady Decline' at the Minneapolis, MN date of last year's Summer Slaughter Tour (July 9th, 2009) can be watched below.

The Ocean have uploaded a second video from the rehearsal for the release show for their upcoming album Heliocentric. The first video was uploaded yesterday. The release show will take place on March 26th in La Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland. The description on the video seems to imply that new videos will be uploaded to their YouTube channel daily. Contrary to the first video, this one features some music from the new album. Watch it below.

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.

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.

The Ocean have unveiled a web page where several short audio clips from their upcoming album 'Heliocentric' can be heard. The clips do not contain vocals. Lyrics are available as well. Presuming that the names on the page correspond with track titles, the track listing is as follows:

1. Firmament
2. The First Commandment of the Luminaries
3. Ptolemy Was Wrong
4. Metaphysics of the Hangman
5. Catharsis of a Heretic
6. Swallowed by the Earth
7. Epiphany
8. The Origin of Species
9. The Origin of God

new promo pictures by ProgHippie.com can be viewed here.

The album is due for release in March. 'Heliocentric' is the first of two concept albums; the second, titled 'Anthropocentric', is scheduled for October. The albums are being released separately because they are very different musically.

Robin Staps told Noisecreep that both discs "are a critique of monotheistic religion, especially Christianity, from different philosophical angles. 'Heliocentric' tells the story of the discovery that the Earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa, and the effects that this discovery has had on Christian beliefs, and 'Anthropocentric' deals with creationism, and modern day Christian fundamentalists who still believe the Earth is 5,000 years old, and the dinosaurs never existed and man is the epitome of God's creation."

Check out the teasers at http://www.theoceancollective.com/heliocentric/.

Swiss festival BREAK THE SILENCE and their booking agency ProgHippie.com have confirmed the first appearance of British djent band TesseracT for their 2010 issue taking place May 8th, alongside with German/Swiss The Ocean. More bands to be announced.