Oceans Of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance !!!OUT NOW!!!
Scarlet Records
Oceans Of Sadness Mirror Palace Date: 2007
Scarlet Records
Oceans Of Sadness Send In The Clowns Date: 2004
Apache Productions
Oceans Of Sadness
Laughing Tears,Crying Smile Date: 2002
LSP Records
Oceans Of Sadness For We Are Date: 2000
LSP Records
Recording guest vocals with
Johan Liiva(Arch Enemy, Hearse)
Recording guest vocals with
Annlouice (Diablo Swing Orchestra)
Some Things Seem So Easy
Tribute to Gummo by Harmony Korine
Recording The Arrogance Of Ignorance
@ Fascination Street Studios, Sweden, April 2008
Oceans of Sadness from Belgium, started back in 1995 and at first drew inspiration from bands such as Type O Negative, Amorphis and Paradise Lost. Within five months of starting the band the first demo "Forgotten Symphony I" got released and this tape immediately became the "demo of the month" in Aardschok – the professional music journal of the Netherlands. At the time, the main ambition was to create slow atmospheric and ultra deep songs – much like those of the bands that inspired Oceans of Sadness. But the songs already had a face of their own and a recognizable sound that you still can identify in the more recent works. In 1999 the young act surprised everyone by winning the Metal Bash Award – a talent competition for Belgian and Dutch bands, organized by Aardschok – which very much helped the band to a larger audience with performances on Dynamo Open Air, "Aardschokdag" and on Biebob Metalfest amongst others. Two years and some demo’s later Oceans Of Sadness signed a two-album-deal with Belgian LSP records and soon after that the debut album "For We Are" was released. Graspop Metal Meeting noticed the intense live presentation of the band, and invited Oceans Of Sadness for the first time on their esteemed festival.
Second album, "Laughing Tears, Crying Smile" was released in 2002, bringing the band to quite a higher level of musicianship. The album got good reviews worldwide but distribution failed as it was only released in Belgium and the Netherlands. In support of their second album the band opened up for Within Temptation and Dimmu Borgir and played lots of shows all over Belgium and The Netherlands. With this album the band also released their first video for a song called “So Close” and it got played on several networks in Europe like TMF and MTV2.
The third album, called "Send In The Clowns", was recorded and released in 2004 by Apache Productions. "Clowns" was a bright musical epos, full of different genres varying from non-metal (classical, jazz, flamenco) over the very best out of the different metal genres (death, black). The album was received very well and the band teamed up with Epica, the orchestral Dutch band, as they joined them on tour in Portugal and Spain. Sadly enough Tijs (vocals) suffered from a collapsing lung twice in a short period of time and the band was forced to slow things down a bit until he was recovered and back for action. Meanwhile the band never stopped writing songs and working on their act.
In 2006 Oceans of Sadness came in contact with producer Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Amon Amarth) of Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. Once the upcoming album "Mirror Palace” was recorded at the Motormusic Studio (Lint, BE) the band went to Sweden where the album was mixed by Jens. The band signed a worldwide deal with Scarlet Records who released the album in April 2007. This album takes a couple more steps on the experimental path that Oceans of Sadness has been on for quite some time and the end result is just as interesting to fans of extreme metal such as Cradle of Filth and Opeth as it is to fans of more melodic rock acts like System of a Down or Alice in Chains. The album got raving reviews all over and it even made it into several list for ‘best album of 2007’. The band recorded another video to promote this album and focussed entirely on the internet with this video and was posted on many websites and forums. The amazing result was that it got watched over a 100000 times up to date! The band was again invited for the Graspop Metal Meeting (for the 4th time!) where they headlined the Metal Dome Stage on the main day of the fest. The band also did their first tour in Italy and did many shows in The Netherlands as well as their home country Belgium.
After the “MP” album things started rolling for the band and they got more focussed but also relaxed than ever. They immediately started writing new songs and merely a year after they released “MP” they again flew to Sweden, this time to work on a full “Jens Bogren-production” at Fascination Street. As the band has always been about making dreams come true they decided to invite some guests: their “long-time” idol Johan Liiva (ex-Arch Enemy, Hearse) and Annlouice Loegdlund, vocalist of a befriended Swedish band Diablo Swing Orchestra. Anders Nordström, Jens’s partner at the studio and by this time a close friend of the band also joined in on a song. The album got the prestigious name “The Arrogance Of Ignorance” and the band invited the Greek artist Seth Siro (Paradise Lost, Oceansize, Moonspell) to handle the artwork as the band only wanted the best for this release on each level. Lyrically the album is about questioning things in life and the difficult quest of finding your own opinion. Nothing can be taken for granted as all is in the hands of nature and we can only do what we think that is best.
“The Arrogance Of Ignorance”, released late September 2008 by Scarlet Records, clearly is the synthesis of years of hard work and fine-tuning the sound of Oceans Of Sadness and if the press had difficulties with labelling their music in the past... well... prepare for this diverse metal madness, it might even set some new standards in metal music. Listen to this album as you would taste a fine wine... take your time and focus on every aspect of what you hear. Experience how these songs become richer with each listening until they are like a second skin.
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Thanks for the add We really appreciate your friendship and support! Stop by our page and let us know what you think about our work... Our second full length album is now finish , it once again combine heavy and powerful metal music with clean vocals hailing from the roots of gothic rock. It was mastered by Dan SWANÖ at Unisound studio ( Sweden ) . We are looking for a label ready to help us nail down the project (CD manufacturing , promotion ,distribution). You can read the first review of this new album on Doom-metal.com: http://www.doom-metal.com/reviews.php?r=1152 cheers Ben Listen “Friends of Hell” & “Alexander” the two first extract of our new album “Doom with a view” .
Testament is one of the best bands in the thrash metal scene. They'll give a concert on July 29th in İstanbul. As the support band of Testament, Origam is going to perform a show in this concert (maybe the most important show of our career).
In this important day we hope to see our friends with us...
Keep to stay heavy;)
p.s: There will be another guest band in the event that will perform with us. Required explanation will be made by Organization in the following days .
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Merhabalar,
Thrash metal arenasının köklü gruplarından Testament, 29 Temmuz Çarşamba gecesi İstanbul'da önemli bir konser verecek. Origam olarak, bu etkinlikte Testament'in ön grubu olacağız ve (müzikal kariyerimizin belki de en önemli) performansını sergileyeceğiz.
Bu önemli günde tüm dostlarımızla birlikte olabilmek dileğiyle...
Keep to stay heavy;)
p.s:Etkinlikte bizimle birlikte sahne alacak bir konuk grup daha olacak. Gerekli açıklama organizasyon tarafından ilerleyen günlerde yapılacaktır.
As you maybe already know, we just came out of the Jack Studio ( www.myspace.com/jackstudio ) where we recorded our E.P. entitled "To the threshold of inhumanity". This first professionnal recording of WBB will contain the following tracks :
1. The Beginning 2. 11 Victories for a crown 3. The Procession of Isaac 4. The Blue opium 5. Never Awake
Stay tuned on our MySpace page these following days and weeks : new stuffs are coming around ( songs, pics, videos...).
Aktarum (TROLL METAL FROM BELGIUM) We need your HELP!!! We would maybe play at PAGAN FEST in Dortmund Germany with bands like Moonsorrow, Korpiklaani or Unleashed if you could vote for us. Thanks a lot for your support and your help. (Just vote on this adress and confirm via email).Aktarum team.
Hi, this is HYPNOTHETICALL band from Italy. On June 21st our songs "Heaven Close At Hand", "Sweet Nothings" and "Hi-tech Lonelyness" will be featured in DARK TOWER compilation, out on NOMADISM RECORDS. The compilation is a special initative against the music piracy, will be published in a special Digipack DVD format, will contain tons of music, videos, bonus tracks and mp3's and will be sold at the symbolic price of € 5,00 on Nomadism's website. Come and check it out!!! Thank you very much!!! Rock on!!!