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Tilburg, The Netherlands (2003 – present)

In 2003, the year of the launch of Textures’debut album Polars, the first reactions start to stream in: “This is the best metal album that’s ever come out of the Netherlands” according to the Dutch music magazine Oor. The standard is set. Textures, once just a promising up-and-coming band from Tilburg, The Netherlands, has now emerged, 3 albums later, as an established name in the worldwide metal scene.

The band’s fourth album Dualism — on the band’s new home Nuclear Blast — is groovier, catchier, and the production even grander than its 2008 predecessor Silhouettes. The band’s trademark mix of expertly crafted brutality, melody, freaky, innovative rhythms and catchy vocals is still intact, with Bart Hennephof and Jochem Jacobs’s expertly crafted sonic… um… textures and the unruly heavy-hitting of drummer Stef Broks creating the perfect metal cocktail. The climaxes of the songs on Dualism have been elevated to a higher level, partially due to the contribution of their new keyboard player Uri Dijk and new frontman Daniel de Jongh (ex-CiLiCe) who, as far as his sound goes, is every bit the talent as his predecessor Eric Kalsbeek.
Once again, the band took total control of every facet of the album. Everything was recorded at Split Second Sound, the new Amsterdam-based studio belonging to Jacobs, who produced the album. The band also handled all their own artwork and merchandising, which was designed by bassist Remko Tielemans.
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  • Opal91

    very cool!

    13 May 9:48am Reply

  • KillYourselff

    Nice stuff. I like.

    9 May 1:40pm Reply

  • Jewbzilla

    I should listen to em more often. Dualism is sounding real good right now.

    3 May 6:02am Reply

  • Cheremenin

    Just started listening and I totally love the band. Majority of clean vocals sound like Devin Townsend. <3

    14 Apr 11:49am Reply

  • ikd-sj

    [SANGUINE DRAWS THE OATH] fabulous ( ━☞´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞

    14 Apr 5:48am Reply

  • MnemicMunky

    Welcome Joe "Thall" bring back those blast-beats!

    20 Mar 8:03pm Reply

  • Zmeyro

    I wish find more tracks like "Awake". I like Textures, but they have only 1 track with such crazy mix of genres. Advice?

    6 Mar 11:03am Reply

  • SA-58CZ

    My very favourite grupa :-)

    23 Feb 10:22pm Reply

  • smiddy012

    Misophonia, a band that's beginning where the great Fellsilent left off XD

    21 Feb 8:15am Reply

  • progfly

    \/ same here. this band rules

    16 Feb 2:25am Reply

  • Samoroth

    I forgot how good this band is! Remember 2006 like it was yesterday.

    4 Feb 12:36am Reply

  • necrogalleri

    copied from the textures fb page: "Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a bit quiet around the TEXTURES camp lately. It is for a valid reason: After 12 years being a big part of the band, Jochem Jacobs has decided to leave TEXTURES. Read the full statement over here: http://texturesband.com/en/news/2013/01/guitarist-jochem-jacobs-par/50"; sad news. i hope they are able to find a good replacement.

    12 Jan 4:21am Reply

  • theDecapitator

    V Agreed, Meshuggah deals with darker concepts. That doesn't make their music emotionless, it just appeals to different types of emotion. Both bands are great in their own way.

    7 Jan 10:23pm Reply

  • maasiu

    "Meshuggah's music doesn't sound dead, it's just emotionless. Textures is pretty much an emotional version of Meshuggah" I wouldn't say that Meshuggah is emotionless. I'd rather say that Meshuggah plays on simply different emotions.

    29 Dec 2012 Reply

  • smiddy012

    Measured [Official Video] by As Oceans

    24 Dec 2012 Reply

  • smiddy012

    please come to the STATES AGAIN! i feel like a douche for missing their show in 2011....

    19 Dec 2012 Reply

  • crimsonSkies

    no, keep shouting :-)

    18 Dec 2012 Reply

  • nhaivor3

    ERIC PLEASE CLEAN VOCALS PLEASE CLEAN VOCALS.

    12 Dec 2012 Reply

  • nhaivor3

    TEXTURES IS A SHIT !!!

    12 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Arklem

    Cant get enough of this band at the moment, wow! [2]

    4 Dec 2012 Reply
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