The Ocean Collective have revealed that their latest tour will be the final one to feature the current line-up.
Fittingly dubbed The End of an Eon, this last run is set for the tail-end of 2024 and January/February 2025 and will consist of only 7 dates across Europe, Romania included.
The distressing line-up announcement left fans wondering what the future will hold for the acclaimed post/prog metal collective: will they come out of the ashes of their geologically-themed eons with completely new members? Always underlining that this musical project is made out of a collective of artists, this writer hopes this will be the more-likely scenario. Or is this the beginning of the end for one of modern prog-metal’s most beloved bands? With no other clues from the collective, we are left wondering, for now.
What to expect from this show
During this tour, The Ocean Collective announced that they will play their latest, critically-aclaimed 2023 album Holocene in full. Holocene brings to a close a paleontological, conceptual cycle that they have started back in 2007. Since then, they have launched, in sequence: Precambrian, then Heliocentric, Anthropocentric, Pelagial, Phanerozoic I: Paleozonic and Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic/Cenozoic.
Apart from Holocene in its entirety, the band announced that the show will also feature a colection of ‘best of’ songs from Phanerozoic. In addition, you can also expect a full line-up and extended visuals, which will only amplify the already intense live performance that fans came to expect from them.
European tour dates
The Ocean Collective have announced that no other dates will be added to this tour, so make sure you attend (at least) one of the following:
End of an Eon in Quantic club, Bucharest
The End of an Eon will land in Bucharest, Romania in Quantic club on the 14th of December 2024. Tickets have just been put up for sale and the current price is 100 lei (~21 euro). Head over to the Rockstadt Extreme Fest website to purchase yours.
