Ocean

A 2007 split from two Portland, Maine heavyweights: Ocean's twenty-minute Durance Vile and Conifer's Building State Empire, one long slab of slow, minimalist heaviness per side, in a screen-printed mylar jacket.

Pantheon Of The Lesser was composed over a period of two years in Ocean's home studio in Portland, Maine. As the seasons passed each track was written, re-written, played and then re-played as layers were slowly stripped away until the true essence of the song was revealed. Once Ocean entered the studio it took another two years to deconstruct Pantheon Of The Lesser until they had found the essence of their writing. This disciplined deconstructionist approach to songwriting is how Ocean takes it…