And the New Guitarist for The Ocean is…

… an Australian fellow by the name of Damian Murdoch. Here’s an audition video he sent to The Dillinger Escape Plan in 2012 when Jeff Tuttle left the band:

Seems more than capable of playing the heavy stuff, right? But The Ocean are most certainly not heavy all the time, so on the complete other side of the spectrum here’s a bluesy funk track of Damian’s with his own band, the Damian Murdoch Trio:

Damian currently lives in Vienna but is planning a move to Berlin, soon to conquer the entire world: The Ocean say they’ll be announce touring plans for 2014 next week. Excited to see Ocean 3.0 with Murdoch and new drummer Paul Seidel! In the meantime, here’s a taste of what it’ll sound like to hear Murdoch playing an actual Ocean song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcp4c33KTrY