The Ocean & Llnn & Playgrounded Announce 2022 European Tour

Coalescing around a shared vision of limitless sonic exploration and relentless heaviness, The Ocean (Collective) have gained a formidable reputation within the post rock, post metal and experimental hardcore scene with 9 studio albums in nearly 20 years. Simultaneously revered as one of the most devastating live bands in modern heavy music, the band became a regular fixture on the European festival circuit, appearing on metal festival bills of the likes of Hellfest, Wacken, Resurrection or Summer Breeze as much as on mainstream rock open airs like Roskilde, Dour, Pukkelpop, or Oya and tastemaker's indoor boutique festivals like Roadburn or Dunk! Over the course of their storied career, The Ocean have toured Europe, North & South America, Australia and Asia with bands such as Opeth, Mastodon, Mono, Cult Of Luna, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Anathema, Between The Buried And Me and Devin Townsend. The band’s own Pelagic Records has become one of the world's leading labels for post-rock and post-metal, with a catalogue of over 200 physical releases since 2009.

Over the last two decades, The Ocean have been in a perpetual state of evolution, releasing a steady succession of groundbreaking and acclaimed albums that have all sought to push heavy music forward, embracing the cerebral and the primal in equal measure. In September of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, the Berlin-based collective released the eagerly-awaited concluding episode of the Phanerozoic journey: and even without any touring to support the release, Phanerozoic II entered the official German album charts at #9, making it the first Top 10 album in the history of the band.

Tickets

• 24/08 - NL Rotterdam, Baroeg

• 25/08 - UK Brighton, Patterns
• 26/08 - UK London, 229
• 27/08 - UK Birmingham, 02 Academy 3
• 28/08 - UK Milton Keynes, Craufurd Arms
• 29/08 - UK Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
• 30/08 - UK Glasgow, Slay
• 01/09 - UK Cork, Cyprus Avenue
• 02/09 - UK Dublin, Whelans
• 03/09 - UK Manchester, Club Academy
• 04/09 - UK Leeds, Key Club
• 05/09 - UK Bristol, The Fleece
• 06/09 - FR Lille, The Black Lab
• 07/09 - BE Brussels, Botanique
• 08/09 - NL Zwolle, Hedon
• 09/09 - DE Bremen, Hellseatic
• 10/09 - DK Copenhagen, Pumpehuset
• 11/09 - DK Aalborg, 1000Fryd
• 12/09 - NO Stavanger, Folken
• 13/09 - NO Bergen, Landmark
• 14/09 - NO Oslo, Bla
• 15/09 - SE Stockholm, Hus7
• 17/09 - FI Helsinki, On The Rocks
• 18/09 - EE Tallinn, Sveta
• 20/09 - PL Warsaw, Progresja
• 21/09 - PL Wroclaw, Akademia
• 22/09 - AT Vienna, Szene
• 23/09 - SK Bratislava, Randal
• 24/09 - RO Cluj-Napoca, Form Space
• 25/09 - RO Bucharest, Quantic
• 26/09 - BU Sofia, Mixtape5
• 27/09 - GR Thessaloniki, Principal
• 28/09 - GR Athens, Temple
• 30/09 - HR Zagreb, Mochvara
• 01/10 - HU Budapest, Akvarium
• 02/10 - CZ Prague, Underdogs