The Ocean - Precambrian

Well, after just listening to To The Nameless Dead for the umpteenth time, I hope I'm not too harsh on these guys valiant effort to create an ALBUM similar to how I described Primordial's latest.

I know nothing about The Ocean, only that this latest release, Precambrian, was an epic work. This is a concept album about the beginnings of our Earth, all the song tracks are named after geological time periods. While listening to this, I'm thinking that an ugly, angry, bastard child of Mastodon and Pelican would sound a lot like Precambrian.

The biggest downfall of this album is the length, there is so much music that they released a few tracks on a seperate mini-CD. The album has a neat concept, however the tracks don't really give the impression of some sort of progression towards anything. The concept is epic, but the music is not. It's a good album, but they really should have cut some of the fat off the album.

There's definitely some substance to this band. I don't think they have quite matured into the sophistication of either Mastodon or Pelican, but The Ocean shows incredible vision and promise.

6/10 Epic effort, but takes the listener on a marathon that doesn't really go anywhere.