Finnish Metal band ..And Oceans are releasing new album The Regeneration Itinerary on May 23, 2025. The single and video for “Inertiae” are out now.
The Regeneration Itinerary pulls from across the band’s 30-year history, combining Death and Black metal with Symphonic, Industrial and even Electronic elements. The harmony that they create between these opposing forces ties into the album’s overarching storyline, which was heavily inspired by Paulo Coelho’s best-selling novel The Alchemist.
Timo Kontio shares:
We’ve never been tied to one particular genre. As a band, we are driven to explore, to traverse unfamiliar landscapes, while always preserving our core sound. It’s about striking a balance. There’s the constant need in this band for renewal and ambition, but never at a cost to our identity.
Through many explorations and changes, the band have always had some key features, including a “mournful essence.”
Teemu Saari says:
Melancholia is everywhere, it’s in all the music that I make, especially my lead work. It’s a key factor, distinctive to the whole …And Oceans catalogue.
Reconvening under the …And Oceans banner in 2017, the band created Cosmic World Mother (2020) and As in Gardens, So in Tombs (2023) which redefined the group with ornate epics. Now, 30 years on from their birth, …And Oceans have created a “distillation” of their art with The Regeneration Itinerary.
Mathias Lillmåns says:
The new album can be seen as a synthesis of our entire back catalogue. But there are new levels of extremity, too, ones that we’ve never reached before. These songs simply demanded harsher vocals. The riffs commanded it, and who am I to disobey?
The Regeneration Itinerary explores the interplay between darkness and light, chaos and order, spiritual and material realms, with each song embodying an experience for the mind and body, navigating a passage to the present moment.
The album works like a guide. Teaching us that not everything can be defined as simply being ‘good’ or ‘bad’, ‘light’ or ‘dark’, ‘copper’ or mercury’, underscoring the perpetual dance of dualities in the human experience.
