Aeolian

In the credits for Aeolian, the Ocean breaks the extreme vocals down into seven different categories, which include "deep bellowing," "meaty howls," "high-pitched shrieking," "Scandinavian hollering," and "raucous vociferation."

Without knowing any backstory on this German collective, "Aeolian" would (perhaps more accurately) be seen as just a decent, somewhat redundant heavy album with a lot of long songs and huge riffs. But THE OCEAN are actually a loose group of musicians who live and work in the catacombs of an abandone...