Release Details  LABEL Metal Blade Records RELEASED ON 4/13/2010
The Ocean   posted on 4/2010   By: Erik Thomas  Ok, so there’s
"ambitious"-- maybe a three part song about the Illiad or a
concept album based on the Bible -- and then there’s Germany’s
The Ocean who have released two sets of double albums
(FluXion/Aeolian and the brilliant Precambrian) with one of them
being an album based around an entire millennia of time.  So
here we have part one of yet another double album, and this time
the band has tackled the very minor topic of Christianity and
its development from medieval times all the way through to
modern fundamentalist views. Heliocentric covers the early part
of well, heliocentric views through to Darwin’s era with the
upcoming Anthropocentric covering modern creationism theories.
Now, all of that sounds ambitious and challenging -- and it is.
And it’s done with all of The Ocean's vast array of guest
musicians and ebbing, flowing post rock tenets, but I have to be
honest with you, some of you a