The Ocean

Hi, I'm Steve Blease, and welcome to Heavy Elements on Progzilla Radio, where we play music from the heavier end of the progressive spectrum.

The end of September saw German progressive post-metal band The Ocean release their tenth studio album, Solaris, and tonight we devote the entire show to Robin Staps' band, starting back in 2003 with "Isa Della Luna" off their debut instrumental album, Fogdiver, and continuing now with the title track of their 2004 sophomore album, Fluxion.

[heavy metal music]

[heavy metal music]This is Arnold.

Stick around.

[metal music] Glory waiting [metal music] on our fathers [metal music] lost to the fight for love [metal music] Tear down everything [metal music] for what's above us today [metal music] Burn the skin [metal music] we bear [metal music] Others cannot fight [metal music] An honest heart can't give up [metal music] In our death [metal music] An honest heart can't give up [metal music] Lost and found [metal music] An honest heart can't make it [metal music] Our foolish pride [metal music] The only way back to God is [metal music] Honor, honor and the honor [metal music] That's a simple honor [metal music] Such a false and trivial [metal music] Honor in our death [metal music] Virtual with blue impressions [metal music] Can easily be bought with merit [metal music] Lacking details [metal music] Learning the lessons [metal music] Bullet for the already dead [metal music] Others cannot fight [metal music] An honest heart can't give up [metal music] In our death [metal music] An honest heart can't give up [metal music] Lost and found [metal music] An honest heart can't make it [metal music] Our foolish pride [metal music] The only way back to God is [metal music] Honor, honor and the honor [metal music] That's a simple honor [metal music] Such a false and trivial [metal music] Honor in our death [metal music] Virtual with blue impressions [metal music] Can easily be bought with merit [metal music] Lacking details [metal music] Learning the lessons [metal music] Bullet for the already dead [metal music] Can you still see [metal music] the stars, the sky [metal music] through layers of gray? [metal music] The final goodbye [metal music] Can you still see the stars? [metal music] The final goodbye [metal music] Can you still see the stars? Can you feel this? With harder veins on the outside With a sweet scent of death in your hair Morning ends and a wake of revolt by myself Year after year after year All those years those walls were empty Curses you know no one to pull Your name lest the greatest spirit From the ash-gray face of new bones For those that water like rain falls the seventh sea Unheeding minds of old Gods of earth wake in chains of earth Pale white sheets weeping like the rough This is the same old red of God Spat his final husk Can you still see the stars through layers of gray? Are the city lights taken at last? Gods are fading away, away, away Eyes leap at the blaze Where my tears are gone under human weight Lies vibrating to the shape One won't surrender and will suffer defeat

Released in 2005, that was "Austerity" off Aeolian, the third studio album from The Ocean, before which you heard the title track of its predecessor Fluxion, released the previous year.

The intention had been to release both as one double album, contrasting the band's mellow and brutal parts, but that had not worked out.