The Ocean - Berlin Atmospheric Post-Metal Visionaries To Release New Album, Solaris, On Sept 25. New Single, Belligerence Out Now

Following from Light Pollution, the band have unveiled the album's second single, "Belligerence."

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Robin Staps explains: "Belligerence is a song about the culture of arguing and about the destructive force of contained anger and belligerence as a trait of character, often transfigured as an attribute of reason and a critical mind.”

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The Ocean recently played their first show ever with the new lineup in Morocco, and recorded a live in studio session at Studio Hiba in Casablanca the day after the show.

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The themes of Solaris pick up where Holocene left off. With Earth rendered increasingly uninhabitable, humanity embarks on a desperate voyage into space aboard a celestial rescue vessel. Drawing inspiration from Andrei Tarkovsky's classic 1972 film Solaris, alongside the journals of explorers including Magellan, Vasco da Gama and Ernest Shackleton's contemporaries, the album examines humanity's obsession with discovery, progress and power, asking whether exploration is driven by curiosity or conquest.

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Solaris also marks a significant evolution for The Ocean themselves. Following major lineup changes after the Holocene touring cycle, founding guitarist Robin Staps has assembled a revitalised collective featuring new vocalists Enrico Tiberi and Lane Shi alongside new guitarists Emmanuel Jessua and Marco Gennaro. The refreshed lineup combines familiar sonic weight with new textures and dynamics while retaining the unmistakable identity that has defined The Ocean for more than two decades.

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