Post-metal paleontology enthusiasts the Ocean are gearing up to release their latest opus, Holocene, the follow-up to the double album Phanerozoic, released in two parts between 2018 and 2020. Today (April 19th), they offered up the LP's epic closing cut, "Subatlantic," a dynamic crusher that opens with trip-hop beats and psychedelic vibes inspired by Massive Attack and builds to the sort of massive, tectonic heaviness that fans have come to expect from the Berlin-based group.
The song arrived along with a cinematic music video directed by Drew Storcks and filmed in Puerto Rico. The clip centers around a doctor whose patients sign up for a de-aging program only to end up being chased by a mysterious masked figure through the tropical landscape. Watch and listen above.
The Ocean's Peter Voigtmann commented of the song's overt Massive Attack influence: "We're all huge fans of Mezzanine, which is still one of the best-produced albums to date. It has aged incredibly well. And for me, it is an immensely heavy album, too, a different kind of heaviness, but one that somehow connects logically with what we've been doing with the Ocean over the course of the past two albums."
Holocene is due out May 19th via the Ocean's own Pelagic Records and available for pre-order now.
