OCEANO: 'Depths' First-Week Sales Revealed

"Depths", the debut album from the Chicago deathcore act OCEANO, sold 2,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD landed at No. 16 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

"Depths" was recorded with producer Joey Sturgis (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, MY CHILDREN MY BRIDE) at The Foundation Studios in Connersville, Indiana, and features artwork from Colin Marks (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, ABORTED, WHITECHAPEL). The CD contains 13 tracks of the angriest deathcore cuts ever committed to record, alongside a limited-edition bonus DVD, and is also available as a limited-edition version with two exclusive bonus tracks.

"Depths" track listing:

01. Descent
02. Inhuman Affliction
03. Empathy For Leviathan
04. Plague Campaign
05. Fractured Frames, Scattered Flesh
06. Disgust For Your Kind
07. Depths
08. District Of Misery
09. With Legions
10. Slaughtered Like Swine
11. A Mandatory Sacrifice
12. Samael The Destroyer
13. Abysm

"District Of Misery", the new video from OCEANO, can be viewed below. Directed by Patrick Guera (DIFFICULT HENRY, HARD ECHO) and produced by Brian Thompson at The Vault LA (MUNICIPAL WASTE, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, AS I LAY DYING),the clip was shot in a converted Los Angeles warehouse and is descriebd as "one darkly intense video."

"It went well," guitarist Andrew Mikhail said about the shoot. "It was an 11-hour shoot and we were rocking out for each of those hours like it we were playing a show."

For those who have seen the band live, they'd know that what the band had to do was no small feat. Stretching the energy usually saved for a 30-45 performance to 11 hours requires a great deal of stamina for any band. In the end, OCEANO pulled it off well, but not without casualties. Mikhail stated, "We were all hurt pretty bad by the end of the shoot. I got this big knot in my forearm near the end of the day and Danny was in every shot, blasting for 11 hours straight. We were all sweaty and sore by the end of it. Luckily we were rewarded with enough energy drinks, vitamin water, booze and ibuprofen to go around."

The video itself sees OCEANO playing the song alongside a twisted
photographic interpretation of each lyrical line as it is growled. Being the only politically driven song on the band's debut album, "District of Misery"'s lyrics deal with the government and the existence of secret societies within. "We play near a bunch of weird images that have to do with the illuminati," said Mikhail, who added, "There are a lot of religious overtones in the video, too."