Oceans are aptly named. Dive in and you’ll first hit the sun-kissed shallows, choppy with riffs and brightened by sweeping melodies and clear vocal hooks. Beneath that, though, are vast swells and complex currents as you sink towards the depths. And down there in the void, it’s cold and very, very dark.“We realised pretty fast that we wanted to have a theme for the whole band, and that’s why we based everything in Oceans around topics like mental health, mental illness and depression,” says vocalist/guitarist Timo Rotten. “It’s also because all of us have had our own different experiences with those kinds of things.”READ THIS: The 13 most nu-metal moments of all timeTheir just-released debut album The Sun And The Cold is certainly built around a heart of darkness that comes ...
