Some interviews hit you like a freight train at full speed. This one was different—it was more like getting hit by the wreckage left after the freight train derailed, then finding a note in the rubble that says, “You’re not alone.”
That’s the vibe I got sitting down with Dorian Pavlović, frontman of Croatian metalcore band Ocean of Another, on the back of their blisteringly emotional new EP Loneliness of My Kin.
This wasn’t your stock-standard metal promo fluff. No label puppet show. No buzzword bullet points. Just raw conversation between two human beings who know that music isn’t just entertainment—it’s medicine. Dirty, loud, honest medicine.
We talked about the heavy stuff. Mental health. Trauma. The quiet deaths we die every day in silence. Dorian didn’t flinch. He talked openly about his own struggles and how this EP was born not out of a desire to chart, but a need to survive. “Only by sharing our experiences can we begin to heal.” That line stuck with me like a splinter under the skin.
Ocean of Another doesn’t play the metal game by numbers. Their sound blends the cinematic scope of Bad Omens, the existential weight of Northlane, and the eerie beauty of early Silent Planet. Their music moves like a storm front—you feel it in your bones before you hear it in your ears. And this new EP? It’s the eye of that storm. Songs like “Loneliness of My Kin” and “No Time Left to Borrow” don’t just hit hard—they haunt.
What really sets Dorian apart though isn’t just his vocals, or the fact he’s directing the band’s visual world through in-house film production. It’s the intent. Every note. Every lyric. Every breakdown. It’s all part of a blueprint to build a bridge between people who feel like they’re drowning in the same storm.
It was refreshing. It was real. And in a time where the music world can feel like an endless loop of curated bullshit, this interview reminded me why I do this. Why Crannk exists. Why metal matters.
If you haven’t listened to Loneliness of My Kin yet, do yourself a favour—lock yourself in a room, turn the volume to apocalypse, and let it hit.
This one’s for the outcasts. The over-thinkers. The ones who don’t always speak but always feel. This one’s for us.
Watch the full interview with Dorian from Ocean of Another on KillerTube:
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