Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
The Ocean Collective
2018
Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic is a Metal album by The Ocean Collective, originally released in 2018. On Gatefold: 36 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Metal
- Progressive Metal
- heavy
- brooding
- cerebral
About
On their seventh album, German experimental metal band The Ocean trace the rise and fall of life on Earth across 250 million years. Capturing both the beauty and the horror of the time before dinosaurs, <i>Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic</i> moves from an eerie electronics-and-strings instrumental that evokes the birth of the planet’s biodiversity (“The Cambrian Explosion”) to a crushing finale that signifies the prehistoric world’s mass extinction (“Permian: The Great Dying”). Despite the abstract concept, the lyrics are deeply affecting, centered around humanity’s place on a planet older than most can fathom. The music is always visceral, ranging from melodic sludge (“Cambrian II: Eternal Recurrence”) to soulful prog-metal (“Silurian: Age of Sea Scorpions”).
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Tracklist
- 1The Cambrian Explosion1:54
- 2Cambrian II: Eternal Recurrence7:51
- 3Ordovicium: The Glaciation of Gondwana4:49
- 4Silurian: Age of Sea Scorpions9:36
- 5Devonian: Nascent (feat. Katatonia)11:05
- 6The Carboniferous: Rainforest Collapse3:08
- 7Permian: The Great Dying9:22
Credits
Performers
- Mattias HägerstrandBASS
- Dalai TheofilopoulouCELLO
- Paul SeidelDRUMS ORGAN
- Robin StapsGUITAR ORGAN
- Peter VoigtmannSYNTH
- Loïc RossettiVOCALS
- David Ramis ÅhfeldtGUITAR
- Vincent MembrezPIANO
- Andrej UgoljewTROMBONE
- Fritz MoshammerTRUMPET HORN
- Jonas RenkseVOCALS WRITTEN-BY
3 collectors on Gatefold own this · 36 pressings tracked on Gatefold