About

Metalcore with a conceptual twist

From the deepest, darkest abyss, dragging new and old souls with them the long dead Perth leviathans To The Depths re-join the land of the living. Resurrected in 2019 to continue The Survivor’s saga, Oceans & Omens was born.

Washing up on the shores of Perth, Western Australia, and Mission Beach, Queensland, Oceans & Omens blend the rawness of quintessential old-school metalcore with melodic guitar hooks, groove driven riffs, catchy choruses and neck snapping breakdowns. All interwoven into an epic narrative of gods, demons, the end of days and the horrors that lurk beneath the waves.

Comprised of Rowan Leah (lead guitar), Aaron Ganley (rhythm guitar), Nathan Menage (bass), and Kieran Wallace (drums) the five-piece is rounded out by veritable giant Sean O’Brien bringing his highly dynamic vocal range to the intricate, rhythmic instrumentation.

After releasing their debut single Deliverance (March 2021), and their debut EP, I:Descent (June 2021), Oceans & Omens have proven themselves a force to be reckoned with. Receiving airplay on national metal radio station The Faction, the remainder of 2021 saw them appearing live alongside Perth metalcore acts Our Demise, scene heavy weights Patient Sixty-Seven, and Perth metal legends Paradise In Exile.

2022 saw the release of Oceans & Omens second single Surfacing, showcasing yet again their ability to craft powerful, dynamic material with the perfect balance of melody and brutality. A headlining show at Amplifier completed the release, launching the song into the world.

After taking a brief hiatus from performing to focus on writing the next chapter of The Survivors tale the band shared the stage with Banks Arcade on the Perth stop of their ‘Future Lovers’ Australia tour and closed out 2023 supporting All This Filth as they farewelled Badlands Bar.

Exploding back into the scene with the visually stunning music video for ‘Final Breath’, filmed by Joseph Varley of Dark Spirit Photography, 2024 is looking to be a stacked year for the band. With a third single expected in July, II: Aether will be released in its entirety in August.

As their hold on the Perth music scene tightens there’s definitely blood in the water, and the Oceans & Omens sharks are circling.

Concept

Welcome to the abyss

Loss. Betrayal. Survival. Vengeance.

Our music immerses you in a world of conflict between gods and men, demonic uprisings, and quests for retribution and salvation.

Our EP I: Descent is the first chapter of The Survivor's saga. Lost at sea and torn from his beloved, The Survivor is drawn into the ocean's crushing black abyss.

Trapped and breathless, death's embrace is kept at bay by nothing more than willpower and burning rage. Fuelled by hatred of the deity who ignored his cries for help, he drifts on currents unseen in a depthless void. Sinking deeper, ever deeper.

Undying, trapped by the crushing pressure, The Survivor ponders eternity. Abyssal vibrations from below remind him that the ocean's deepest chasms are dark and full of terrors...

The story will continue...

The Band

Buncha nerds

Vocals - Sean O'Brien
Not bad for a trombone geek. Sean learned to scream by treading on Lego bricks and imitating Dragonball Z characters.
Lead Guitar - Rowan Leah
The songwriter and storyteller behind Oceans & Omens. Standing at 4 feet tall, this aquatic Hobbit survives on a diet of fantasy novels, red wine, and all the cake.
Rhythm guitar - Aaron Ganley
He likes D&D, Audrey Hepburn, Fangoria, Harry Houdini and croquet. He can't swim, can't dance, and doesn't know karate. Let's face it...he's never gonna make it.
Bass - Nathan Menage
A sentient array of dreadlocks that rolled into the studio one day and started playing bass with more ferocity than any known human.
Drums - Kieran Wallace
Likes: motor cycles
Dislikes: playing slow
Strength: posing
Weakness: cars
Quote: "that'll do, Pig, that'll do"
Shoutout to our fill-in guitarist Nick Pitt

Lyrics

Adrift

So far from shore, no one can hear my screams
They’re oblivious to the struggle that’s slowly killing me
I’ve been left to drown, left to succumb to eternity

Drifting from consciousness accepting the end
Allowing the waves to carry my brittle bones away
And escape this pain

Grasping at the surface, a cruel fate
Drifting upon these icy waves
Betray my faith
I reach for the heavens, scream at the sky
But there’s no hope for me
Slipping below, I won’t let go
Lost in the undertow
Cast adrift in the wake of time

So far from shore, no one can hear my screams
They’re oblivious to the struggle that’s slowly killing me

Drifting from consciousness accepting the end
Allowing the waves to carry my brittle bones away
And escape this pain

Sinking, sinking
This sinking feeling never dies, cut the rope
Sever the ties
Sever the ties

So far from shore, no one can hear my screams
They’re oblivious to the struggle that’s slowly killing me
I’ve been left to drown, I’m adrift

Deliverance

Hollow and broken, life slipping away
A fallen man with a lost soul
I’ve been led astray
I ask you father, guide me on this lonely road
Shelter us through the teeth of the storm, and never let us go

Lightning splits the sky, heavens sundered by a blinding light
My soul cast away to fate
I hear the drums, the titans are awake
Illest omen, malicious hate, all light dies
All light dies

Across the gulf of the ocean, I still see her face
The fear in her eyes, no chance for one last embrace
Divine fury ignites, manipulating our lives
Cold minds and vipers’ lies, my life for their demise
Their demise

When your future lies before you, flayed bare before your eyes
A cruel fate it twists and turns, the devil’s grand design

Hollow and broken, life slipping away
Crushed dreams, and frail lives
Hopes fall like embers from a fractured sky

Your shadow engulfs the world,
Prayers of the faithful go unheard
Laughter from heaven above
Condemning those who call you god
Faithful do they know of your hate?
Their souls in the palm of your hand
Ruin you are
And ruin you shall bring to this land
Chaos sower, great destroyer

Across the gulf of the ocean, I still see her face
The fear in her eyes, no chance for one last embrace
Divine fury ignites, manipulating our lives

Go ahead and take your toll
Rip out my heart, my life, my soul
Vengeance floods this shell
As I descend into hell

Let darkness claim me
Escape this world that chains me
Release me from this life
End my suffering and strife
Deliverance

Check out the Deliverance lyric video here!

Visions

As I slip away, darkness surrounds me
Deeper and deeper, there’s no escaping this

Face my fears

Visions cloud my mind, chapters of my life pass me by
I see the eyes of those who left me to die
To die

Death’s grip tightens
Don’t leave me here

These visions fade before my eyes
Visions of my life I realise
My imperfections, my mistakes
Some things you just can’t erase

Visions, they burn, they sear my soul
Memories, they fade
The threads of my life are slipping away

I can’t take this
I can’t take this much longer
My mind is breaking
The Abyss is waiting

Visions cloud my mind, all hope and reason cast aside
Is this the end or is it just the beginning?
The beginning

These visions fade before my eyes
Visions of my life I realise
My imperfections, my mistakes
Some things you just can’t erase

Visions, they burn, they sear my soul
Memories, hey fade
The threads of my life are slipping away

Fading away

From The Deep

This is depths of the ocean
The depths of the ocean

Death to all souls that drown in the darkness
Black shadows slip around me
This truly is the end, the end of my existence
My life a fading memory as the ocean weight drags me down
This is my final plea
Can anybody rescue me?

It awakens from the deep
Surging forth to claim me
A sleepless malice that has been unleashed
To consume this shattered form
Ravenous, reptilian eyes staring back into mine
I see my future flayed bare before my eyes
As it starts to captivate my mind

Unable to move
Unable to breath
Unable to die

I can feel the searching eyes, a beast unleashed, my life it’s prize
Predator, consume my mind, rend my soul, claim my life

It awakens from the deep
Surging forth to claim me
A sleepless malice that has been unleashed
To consume this shattered form

Die
Devoured

Final Breath

Scions of chaos have pursued me through The Void
Upon weary legs I stagger onward to face the final trial

I gaze upon
Empty horizons
Atop the precipice of this wretched wasteland
Iridescent sea of infinite reflection
Bleeds into silver skies
This cursed, forsaken shoreline

Guides my way through eternal strife, facing becalmed ultimatum
Take the leap of faith or die, condemned to rot in perdition
Forge on into the unknown, shatter the mirror’s surface
Listen untold martyr for mankind, feel your resolve solidify
Heed the voice that enters your mind

Go forth
Descend once more
Sink into eternity
Transcend this realm
Become reborn
Consign your soul to the depths below

I’ve reached the threshold
Portal divine
Look myself in the eye, a broken mortal for the first and last time

Descend
Let go as you take your final breath
Undertake your destiny, time to rise above your mortality
Pledge yourself to me and champion the fate of humanity

Blinded by faith, my life was discarded
My spirit condemned to this hell

Beckoned by specter of the light
My seraph of The Aether
To whom I pledge my allegiance
Beacon piercing this endless night
Beneath the crushing fathoms
A soul forged and tempered for the coming fight
Death and loss and suffering reveals my destiny
Emissary of the apocalypse, transcend to the land of the living

Go forth
Descend once more
Sink into eternity
Transcend this realm
Become reborn
Consign your soul to the depths below

To the mortal realm, I must return
Herald of the dark
For dead men tell no tales
Yes I relinquish my soul
Set me free

Surfacing

Do you believe in ghosts?
Do you believe in a presence beneath the waves?
Beneath the surface
Beneath the surface
Cold light illuminates
A night of endless nights fades away
Ascend from this lonesome place
Old friend carry me home
The ocean whispers, it calls to me
Igniting the spark, reviving hopes and dreams
Suspended in the blue divide, I see the light
It's within my reach

Surfacing, clarity, hidden depths bely, thallasic hordes arise
Cerulean sea, fury, rain swept sky beckon me

Striving for the light, tearing free from the void’s vice grip
Breaking these shackles binding me
New currents churn with the beating of a dead heart
Breath of rebirth fill my lungs as a pulse of life resonates
Creatures of the chasm surge forth
Hell’s horde unleashed upon this world
Fell shadow spreading, lungs burning
Demons ascending, limbs striving
My battered form breaks the waves

Surfacing, clarity, hidden depths bely, thalassic hordes arise
Cerulean sea, fury, rain swept sky beckon me
Grasp life, emerge, revenant of the ocean
Strike out across the waves

Cold light illuminates, night of endless nights fade away
Ascend from this lonesome place, old friend carry me home
Fractured mind, lacerated soul
Dark import, fate foretold
Drowning me, crushing me, dragging me down into the void
Free myself from hell eternal
A world where chaos thrives, ancient realm where horrors writhe
Fell shadow spreading, lungs burning
Demons ascending, limbs striving
You’ve failed. I will never succumb
I am a harbinger of foretold fate
Impending violence yet to break

Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise

The ocean whispers, it calls to me Igniting the spark, reviving hopes and dreams
Suspended in the blue divide
I see the light, it’s within my reach

Surfacing, clarity, hidden depths bely, thalassic hordes arise
Cerulean sea, fury, rain swept sky beckon me
Grasp life, emerge, revenant of the ocean
Strike out across the waves
Cerulean sea, fury, rain swept sky
I’m surfacing

Merch

Show everybody how much you love thalassophobia-themed music

Available on our Merch stand at all of our gigs. You can also check out our online store on Bandcamp! Otherwise, please enquire via oceansandomens@gmail.com

T-shirts

Front: Oceans & Omens logo
Back: Shark symbol
Brand: AS Colour
Material: 100% cotton

Available on Bandcamp

Tank tops

Front: Oceans & Omens Logo
Back: Shark symbol
Brand: AS Colour
(Mens stonewash barnard tank)
Material: 100% combed cotton

Available on Bandcamp

Ladies singlets

Front: Oceans & Omens logo
Back: Shark symbol
Brand: AS Colour
(Womens Sunday singlet)
Material: 100% combed cotton

Available on Bandcamp

Leviathan tee

If you want to strut into the mosh pit, looking fresh to death in a T-shirt that's lit, then this is the tee for you. Featuring our mascot, Steve, like you've never seen him before, in classic metal style.

Available on Bandcamp

Stickers

Stick them to your instrument case, car, or cat.

Printed by OzStickerPrinting

Role Playing Game (D&D)

Fight for survival in this ocean-themed one-shot adventure, featuring music from an Australian metalcore band.
(5e compatible)

Physical copies available on our merch stand

Digital Download via DriveThruRPG

DriveThruRPG

LED Display

Limited edition!
This wicked-cool mood light belongs on top of your vinyl display cabinet, next to the salt lamp.
Wide range of colour settings, and can be set to change between all of them.
Takes AA batteries or plugs in via usb cable (wall plug not supplied).

Available on Bandcamp