Your last chance to dance so BBBEEEEEEE THEREEEE!!!!

Dear friends,

First of all we want to thank all of you for supporting Oceans Of Sadness during these last 15 years.

Thanks to you we had the chance to do a lot of cool things, much more than we ever dreamed of 15 years ago…

During these 15 years we’ve never really tried to be part of any particular scene musicwise and our image has always been the last thing we cared about. Creating our own sound and writing original and inspiring metal has always been our only real goal and we are proud of the road we travelled during the 5 albums we recorded, with “The Arrogance Of Ignorance” being the last one, released in 2008 on Scarlet Records.

We are really proud of all our music and we ourselves have always believed that we kept getting better and better at what we wanted to do.

But now we feel that our story may have been told…. Theoretically we could easily go on for another 15 years… but we won’t.

We feel time has come for us to relax for a while and who knows what happens in the future… I’m pretty sure all of us will continue making music, maybe together, maybe seperately, but more important is that we all have the feeling we can now close this chapter of our lives with pride and dignity.

We’re not the kind of guys to close a door and throw away the key forever, not at all… however, we don’t have the intention to come back in this shape in a few years either… music is about creativity and challenging yourself and right now we feel we got stuck in some sort of routine for quite a while now… we lack the energy to record yet another album, again negotiating with labels, just to end up with another deal that only costs us a lot of money, followed by a few shows… We’ll see what happens in the future, like with everything in life: nothing is certain…

On a positive note:

To celebrate the end of Oceans Of Sadness in style we decided to leave the scene with a blast and do a special last show.

The date and other details will be released when all is certain.

Thanks for everything! We hope you will enjoy our music for many years to come!

This also means that tonight’s show in Antwerp (BE) will probably happen as a 5-piece band instead of a 6-piece… we’re not sure how this will work out exactly on stage but we figured this option is …cooler than canceling the show, no?

Hope to see you there! ]]> http://www.oceansofsadness.com/new_site/?feed=rss2&p=212 0 http://www.oceansofsadness.com/new_site/?p=209 http://www.oceansofsadness.com/new_site/?p=209#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:45:21 +0000 Tijs http://www.oceansofsadness.com/new_site/?p=209 For these 6 suckers it’s a small step from both Progpower Europe as Progpower USA to Frietrock @ frittur ‘t Festijn in Retie… we got invited by a long-time fan who also happens to be a friturist ( ) to play in a tent next to his workingplace. And fulfillers of dreams that we are (ahum) we, of course, said yes. Let me remind you of the following: this show is in Retie…       the one town where absolute mayhem on OOS-shows  is a common thing so put on your kneecaps and helmets… be prepared for WAR

!!! 4 DECEMBER: Frietrock, Frituur ‘t Festijn (Retie, BE) !!!

BUTBUTBUT, before that you can see us on saturday, November 27th @ a fest called “Antwerp Metalized” @ Zaal Kavka in Antwerp, together with Battalion and others…. BEEEEEEEE THHHHEEEEEERRRRRREEEEEEE!!!!

First of all: we survived the Graspop Metal Meeting once again, and how! We were the opening band of the whole festival and we had the luck to play a pretty tight set for a completely packed tent. Heads were banging and fist were thrown from the front to the back… it was awesome! Downside was that we were planning to record a live-album… but we failed human errors combined with some technical ones… ah well, no real harm done, we’ll try this again pretty soon I guess

People have send us some cool fan-footage as well which you can check out on YouTube. Special attention to the tribute we did for Peter Steele from Type O negative. I payed we did him honour in a good way…

Up next is continue writing new songs (which HAVE to be epic, we are VERY eager to work on new stuff and make it the best we did so far!)  and at the same time preparing ourselves for the next shows. We hope to see you there!

Black No. 1 Oceans of Sadness GRASPOP 2010

Pride & Shame @ GMM 2010

Oceans Of Sadness is invited to kick-off the Graspop Metal Meeting (BE) in 2010!
As you know we celebrate our 15th year of existence this year and so does the Graspop Metal Meeting!
So what’s cooler than celebrating this by kicking-off the festival this year?
This will be a show for the early birds though (Friday 25th of June from 11.30hr ’til 12.10hr) so be there in time if you want to check us out (no disadvantages like staying sober all day for us either )
We’ll be playing a special set containing songs from all 5 albums we’ve released so far… some songs we don’t play often so it’ll be worth it for the real fans and followers of OOS, we promise!!!

Get your tickets asap and make sure you’re there on time!

PS: funny detail: statistically we now have the high-score of playing @ GMM together with Iron Maiden with 6 editions in total… budgetwise it’s a whole different story I’m afraid BUT know that the band will also fly over with our own airplane … one made out of paper but still

We had the time of our life and if we saw correctly, so did you!

The place was packed and the spirit of the evening was nostalgic yet fucking intense!

Some black eyes and teeth flying in the air… rock ‘n roll!

See you soon, we won’t give in yet

Some fan-filmed-footage : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-fzqRMc9UI&feature=email

Tomorrow will do a special double show in our hometown Dessel @ JC Spin. Only 5€ entrance!

First we’ll play the entire For We Are album, our debut from 2000, and after that we’ll do a second set filled with songs of the 4 other albums, a lot of songs we haven’t played for a long long time so it’ll be equally exciting for us as well!

We’re ready! Are you?