Berlin-based the Ocean are an extreme music ensemble. Their hybrid sound joins progressive, atmospheric doom metal and electronica. Their music, always ferocious in execution, melds organic and electronic sounds with samples. They began an album series based on the earth's paleontological history with 2007's Precambrian. In 2010 they continued with two thematically linked titles, Heliocentric and Anthropocentric, reflecting on the sun and humankind's relationship to it. 2013's progressive Pelagial expanded those themes to include the sea, making it a standalone trilogy. 2018's...