New music from The Ocean? Yes yes YES!

MONO & The Ocean will release a split EP titled Transcendental on October 23, 2015 via Pelagic Records, the label owned by Ocean mastermind Robin Staps. The split runs for 24 minutes despite having just two tracks, and marks the beginning of the union of some of Japan and Germany’s most well-respected and longest-running metal bands — along with Iceland’s kings of atmosphere, Sólstafir — who all head out on an extensive European tour together starting later this week.

MetalSucks is incredibly stoked to premier The Ocean’s contribution to the split, the sprawling, expansive, progressive and magnificently Ocean-ian jam “The Quiet Observer.” It’s everything you want from a song by The Ocean, with nooks and crannies that’ll reveal themselves on repeated listens and peaks and valleys that’ll take you up, down and everywhere in between. The track marks the recorded debut of drummer Paul Seidel and guitarist Damian Murdoch, and features contributions from cellist Dalai Theofilopoulou and piano player Vincent Membrez, who contributed to The Ocean’s latest album Pelagial.

Stream the track below, and pre-order the split on vinyl or CD. Get tour dates for MONO + The Ocean + Sólstafir here or below the player.

12.10.2015 DK Aarhus Voxhall

13.10.2015 NO Oslo Vulkan Arena

14.10.2015 SE Stockholm Debaser Medis

16.10.2015 FI Turku Klubi

17.10.2015 FI Helsinki The Circus

18.10.2015 RU St. Petersburg Zal Ozhidaniya

19.10.2015 RU Moscow Volta

21.10.2015 LT Vilnius New York

22.10.2015 PL Warsaw Proxima

23.10.2015 DE Berlin Heimathafen

24.10.2015 NL Leeuwarden Romein (Into The Void)

25.10.2015 BE Antwerp Trix

26.10.2015 DE Cologne Live Music Hall

27.10.2015 DE Wiesbaden Schlachthof

28.10.2015 DE Munich Backstage

29.10.2015 I Bologna Locomotiv

30.10.2015 I Mezzago Bloom

31.10.2015 F Lyon CCO Villeurbanne

01.11.2015 ES Barcelona Bikini

02.11.2015 F Toulouse Le Metronum

03.11.2015 CH Lausanne Les Docks

04.11.2015 CH Zürich Harterei

05.11.2015 F Paris Trabendo

06.11.2015 UK London Electric Ballroom

07.11.2015 UK Leeds Damnation Fest

08.11.2015 Gr Athens Fuzz Club

09.11.2015 Tr Istanbul Garajistanbul