Acclaimed post-metal band THE OCEAN return to Australia this June for their first headline tour in almost a decade. The Germany-based group stunned audiences across the nation on their 2023 tour with Ne Obliviscaris and Rivers of Nihil, but couldn’t wait to follow up and cement their glory with their biggest Australian production yet and a tour package of their own featuring the legendary US metal/hardcore pioneers CAVE IN for their first-ever Australian shows, and insanely heavy Danish label mates LLNN.
Formed in 1995 in Massachusetts by singer/guitarist Stephen Brodsky, CAVE IN was ahead of its time from the very beginning, helping to define the then-primitive metalcore genre with a more creatively elevated slant on their 1998 debut album Until Your Heart Stops. Not content to remain pigeonholed, the band veered into more accessible psychedelic ‘space rock’ sounds on subsequent releases before a brief hiatus in the mid 2000s. After the tragic death of bassist/vocalist Caleb Schofield in 2018, Converge bassist Nate Newton picked up his friend’s instrument and the band was able to continue on its legacy, resulting in their seventh album – 2022’s Heavy Pendulum (Relapse Records) – a culmination of all the sounds the band had explored throughout their tenure and then some, with universal critical praise labeling it everything from sludge metal to post-grunge and even thrash.
Rounding out this trio into a certified powerhouse of thinking man’s metal with some unsubtle bludgeoning, Denmark’s LLNN sound like the apocalypse on steroids. Signed to THE OCEAN’s own Pelagic Records, this absolutely crushing four piece unleash vicious sonic textures atop of a percussive barrage of unhinged rhythmic destruction. Three albums deep, 2021’s Unmaker is a pillar of sonic force so insanely heavy that words fall short.
THE OCEAN
AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2024
With Special Guests
Cave In(USA)
LLNN (DK)
Wednesday JUNE 5, 2024 – THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE
Thursday JUNE 6, 2024 – HAMILTON STATION HOTEL, NEWCASTLE
Friday JUNE 7, 2024 – THE BASEMENT, CANBERRA
Saturday JUNE 8 , 2024 – THE FACTORY THEATRE, SYDNEY
Sunday JUNE 9, 2024 – THE ROSEMOUNT, PERTH*
Friday JUNE 14, 2024 – 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE
Saturday JUNE 15, 2024 – LION ARTS, ADELAIDE
*No Cave In or LLNN
General tickets on sale: Friday 23 February @ 10am local time
Tickets from destroyalllines.com
