Depths

Oceano were formed in 2006, but they released their debut album last year, due to numerous line up changes. Their vocalist, Adam Warren pumps out some amazing inverse vocals, similar to those in Annotation of an Autopsy’s first album, which can be described as a fusion of sludge and black metal.

They’ve firmly cemented themselves as an awesome band with this album, it’s typical breakdowns, blast beats and tremello mixed in with an original vocal style. Depths is a fast paced and thoughroughlly brutal album at it’s core and while it may not be the most technical album, Oceano show their ability by being able to take a normally typical sound, perfect it and make it their own. They also make great use of a lot of distortion on the guitars and it’s a really, really, really clean recording, which is something extremely rare for a band’s first release.
Depths is an album which has been written to be extremely heavy and also quite majestic, songs such as “Fractured Frames, Scattered Flesh” and ” Disgust for Your Kind” have a lot of underlying doom metal influences, which combine with the heavily distorted guitars creates a really dark and creepy feel to the album, which is awesome. As with most albums which are heavy, there is normall an interlude song which is used to give the listener a bit of a break; Depth’s has a self titled track in this position, which while a good song, is slightly too fast paced, although it could be argued that it helps keep the listener in the mood for fast and heavy music.
Generic as hell, not hugely technical, but fresh, brutal and a familiar sound which people who enjoy the deathcore genre of music will enjoy, Depth’s is a great first album from Oceano. Look up their myspace for more information about the band, and their new album, which they’ve finished recording: http://www.myspace.com/oceano