The Bottom Line
Complex and atmospheric metal with a variety of guest musicians.
Pros
- Diverse and complex album.
Cons
- Starts sounding repetitive toward the end of the album.
Description
- Released in North America March 7, 2006 on Metal Blade.
- The album was recorded in the band's own Oceanland studio.
- It was mastered by Magnus Lindberg (Cult Of Luna).
Guide Review - The Ocean - Aeolian
This album was recorded at the same time as The Ocean's previous album Fluxion. This one is substantially different from that one. It's a lot heavier. It's very complex and technical, but there are still a lot of ambient influences. It's a combination of groups like Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan and Converge.
The Ocean has brought in a bunch of guest vocalists that add quite a bit of variety, including Tomas Hallbom (Breach), Nate Newton (Converge) and Sean Ingram (Coalesce). It's an interesting album, but the concept wears a little thin toward the end. Trimming a song or two might have made things a little more concise.
