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Being As An Ocean formed in Alpine, California in 2011 and became known for a post-hardcore sound that uses heaviness as a frame for confession, patience, and spiritual searching. Dear G-d... introduced the band's blend of melodic hardcore, spoken-word passages, swelling post-rock guitars, and screamed emotional release, with Joel Quartuccio's vocals often sounding closer to testimony than conventional frontman performance. How We Both Wondrously Perish and the self-titled album broadened the formula, adding cleaner melodic hooks and more carefully shaped dynamics, while Waiting for Morning to Come, PROXY: An A.N.I.M.O. Story, and Death Can Wait pushed the band into more atmospheric and electronic spaces. Even as lineups shifted, the core remained recognizable: long builds, ringing guitars, abrupt eruptions, and lyrics that circle grief, faith, distance, and endurance. Being As An Ocean are heavy because of their crescendos and screams, but their real signature is emotional pacing. The songs often feel like letters becoming storms, with post-hardcore structure stretched toward catharsis rather than simple aggression one careful wave at a time.
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